Jeremiah 51:32

World English Bible (2000)

and the passages are seized, and the reeds they have burned with fire, and the men of war are frightened.

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  • Isa 44:27 : 27 who says to the deep, 'Be dry,' and 'I will dry up your rivers;'
  • Jer 50:37-38 : 37 A sword is on their horses, and on their chariots, and on all the mixed people who are in the midst of her; and they shall become as women: a sword is on her treasures, and they shall be robbed. 38 A drought is on her waters, and they shall be dried up; for it is a land of engraved images, and they are mad over idols.
  • Jer 51:30 : 30 The mighty men of Babylon have forborne to fight, they remain in their strongholds; their might has failed; they are become as women: her dwelling places are set on fire; her bars are broken.

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  • Jer 51:28-31
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    28 Prepare against her the nations, the kings of the Medes, its governors, and all its deputies, and all the land of their dominion.

    29 The land trembles and is in pain; for the purposes of Yahweh against Babylon do stand, to make the land of Babylon a desolation, without inhabitant.

    30 The mighty men of Babylon have forborne to fight, they remain in their strongholds; their might has failed; they are become as women: her dwelling places are set on fire; her bars are broken.

    31 One runner will run to meet another, and one messenger to meet another, to show the king of Babylon that his city is taken on every quarter:

  • Jer 51:33-34
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    33 For thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel: The daughter of Babylon is like a threshing floor at the time when it is trodden; yet a little while, and the time of harvest shall come for her.

    34 Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon has devoured me, he has crushed me, he has made me an empty vessel, he has, like a monster, swallowed me up, he has filled his maw with my delicacies; he has cast me out.

  • 58 Thus says Yahweh of Armies: The broad walls of Babylon shall be utterly overthrown, and her high gates shall be burned with fire; and the peoples shall labor for vanity, and the nations for the fire; and they shall be weary.

  • 30 Therefore her young men will fall in her streets, and all her men of war will be brought to silence in that day, says Yahweh.

  • Jer 51:41-43
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    41 How is Sheshach taken! and the praise of the whole earth seized! how is Babylon become a desolation among the nations!

    42 The sea is come up on Babylon; she is covered with the multitude of its waves.

    43 Her cities are become a desolation, a dry land, and a desert, a land in which no man dwells, neither does any son of man pass thereby.

  • Jer 50:22-23
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    22 A sound of battle is in the land, and of great destruction.

    23 How is the hammer of the whole earth cut apart and broken! how is Babylon become a desolation among the nations!

  • 16 Cut off the sower from Babylon, and him who handles the sickle in the time of harvest: for fear of the oppressing sword they shall turn everyone to his people, and they shall flee everyone to his own land.

  • Jer 51:54-55
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    54 The sound of a cry from Babylon, and of great destruction from the land of the Chaldeans!

    55 For Yahweh lays Babylon waste, and destroys out of her the great voice; and their waves roar like many waters; the noise of their voice is uttered:

  • Jer 51:2-4
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    2 I will send to Babylon strangers, who shall winnow her; and they shall empty her land: for in the day of trouble they shall be against her around.

    3 Against [him who] bends let the archer bend his bow, and against [him who] lifts himself up in his coat of mail: and don't spare her young men; utterly destroy all her army.

    4 They shall fall down slain in the land of the Chaldeans, and thrust through in her streets.

  • 12 Set up a standard against the walls of Babylon, make the watch strong, set the watchmen, prepare the ambushes; for Yahweh has both purposed and done that which he spoke concerning the inhabitants of Babylon.

  • 46 At the noise of the taking of Babylon the earth trembles, and the cry is heard among the nations.

  • 47 Therefore, behold, the days come, that I will execute judgment on the engraved images of Babylon; and her whole land shall be confounded; and all her slain shall fall in the midst of her.

  • 11 For thus says the Lord Yahweh: The sword of the king of Babylon shall come on you.

  • Jer 51:36-37
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    36 Therefore thus says Yahweh: Behold, I will plead your cause, and take vengeance for you; and I will dry up her sea, and make her fountain dry.

    37 Babylon shall become heaps, a dwelling place for jackals, an astonishment, and a hissing, without inhabitant.

  • 9 His rock will pass away by reason of terror, and his princes will be afraid of the banner," says Yahweh, whose fire is in Zion, and his furnace in Jerusalem.

  • 13 Because of the wrath of Yahweh she shall not be inhabited, but she shall be wholly desolate: everyone who goes by Babylon shall be astonished, and hiss at all her plagues.

  • 3 For out of the north there comes up a nation against her, which shall make her land desolate, and none shall dwell therein: they are fled, they are gone, both man and animal.

  • 25 Yahweh has opened his armory, and has brought forth the weapons of his indignation; for the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, has a work [to do] in the land of the Chaldeans.

  • 35 A sword is on the Chaldeans, says Yahweh, and on the inhabitants of Babylon, and on her princes, and on her wise men.

  • 5 while [men] come to fight with the Chaldeans, and to fill them with the dead bodies of men, whom I have killed in my anger and in my wrath, and for all whose wickedness I have hidden my face from this city:

  • 8 The Chaldeans shall come again, and fight against this city; and they shall take it, and burn it with fire.

  • 49 As Babylon has caused the slain of Israel to fall, so at Babylon shall fall the slain of all the land.

  • 36 Now therefore thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, concerning this city, about which you say, It is given into the hand of the king of Babylon by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence:

  • 28 The voice of those who flee and escape out of the land of Babylon, to declare in Zion the vengeance of Yahweh our God, the vengeance of his temple.

  • 10 For I have set my face on this city for evil, and not for good, says Yahweh: it shall be given into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall burn it with fire.

  • 7 Then a breach was made in the city, and all the men of war fled, and went forth out of the city by night by the way of the gate between the two walls, which was by the king's garden; (now the Chaldeans were against the city all around;) and they went toward the Arabah.

  • 10 For though you had struck the whole army of the Chaldeans who fight against you, and there remained but wounded men among them, yes would they rise up every man in his tent, and burn this city with fire.

  • 9 Behold, here comes a troop of men, horsemen in pairs." He answered, "Fallen, fallen is Babylon; and all the engraved images of her gods are broken to the ground.

  • 22 The sound of it shall go like the serpent; for they shall march with an army, and come against her with axes, as wood cutters.

  • 37 The peaceable folds are brought to silence because of the fierce anger of Yahweh.

  • 3 A fire devours before them, and behind them, a flame burns. The land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them, a desolate wilderness. Yes, and no one has escaped them.

  • 26 Therefore her young men shall fall in her streets, and all the men of war shall be brought to silence in that day, says Yahweh of Armies.

  • 12 The peoples will be like the burning of lime, like thorns that are cut down and burned in the fire.

  • 14 All the army of the Chaldeans, who were with the captain of the guard, broke down all the walls of Jerusalem all around.

  • 25 Outside the sword shall bereave, and in the rooms, terror; on both young man and virgin, The nursing infant with the gray-haired man.

  • 42 They lay hold on bow and spear; they are cruel, and have no mercy; their voice roars like the sea; and they ride on horses, everyone set in array, as a man to the battle, against you, daughter of Babylon.

  • 7 I will prepare destroyers against you, everyone with his weapons; and they shall cut down your choice cedars, and cast them into the fire.

  • 37 A sword is on their horses, and on their chariots, and on all the mixed people who are in the midst of her; and they shall become as women: a sword is on her treasures, and they shall be robbed.

  • 64 and you shall say, Thus shall Babylon sink, and shall not rise again because of the evil that I will bring on her; and they shall be weary. Thus far are the words of Jeremiah.