Jeremiah 51:25
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25 “Behold, I am against you, (A)O destroying mountain,
Who destroys all the earth,” says the Lord.
“And I will stretch out My hand against you,
Roll you down from the rocks,
(B)And make you a burnt mountain.
Revelation 8:8
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Second Trumpet: The Seas Struck
8 Then the second angel sounded: (A)And something like a great mountain burning with fire was thrown into the sea, (B)and a third of the sea (C)became blood.
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Zechariah 4:7
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7 ‘Who are you, (A)O great mountain?
Before Zerubbabel you shall become a plain!
And he shall bring forth (B)the capstone
(C)With shouts of “Grace, grace to it!” ’ ”
Jeremiah 50:31
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31 “Behold, I am against you,
O most haughty one!” says the Lord God of hosts;
“For your day has come,
[a]The time that I will punish you.
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- Jeremiah 50:31 So with MT, Tg.; LXX, Vg. The time of your punishment
Isaiah 13:2
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2 “Lift(A) up a banner (B)on the high mountain,
Raise your voice to them;
(C)Wave your hand, that they may enter the gates of the nobles.
Revelation 18:9-10
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The World Mourns Babylon’s Fall
9 (A)“The kings of the earth who committed fornication and lived luxuriously with her (B)will weep and lament for her, (C)when they see the smoke of her burning, 10 standing at a distance for fear of her torment, saying, (D)‘Alas, alas, that great city Babylon, that mighty city! (E)For in one hour your judgment has come.’
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Revelation 17:1-6
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The Scarlet Woman and the Scarlet Beast
17 Then (A)one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls came and talked with me, saying [a]to me, “Come, (B)I will show you the judgment of (C)the great harlot (D)who sits on many waters, 2 (E)with whom the kings of the earth committed fornication, and (F)the inhabitants of the earth were made drunk with the wine of her fornication.”
3 So he carried me away in the Spirit (G)into the wilderness. And I saw a woman sitting (H)on a scarlet beast which was full of (I)names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns. 4 The woman (J)was arrayed in purple and scarlet, (K)and adorned with gold and precious stones and pearls, (L)having in her hand a golden cup (M)full of abominations and the filthiness of [b]her fornication. 5 And on her forehead a name was written:
(N)MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT,
THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS
AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS
OF THE EARTH.
6 I saw (O)the woman, drunk (P)with the blood of the saints and with the blood of (Q)the martyrs of Jesus. And when I saw her, I marveled with great amazement.
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- Revelation 17:1 NU, M omit to me
- Revelation 17:4 M the fornication of the earth
Daniel 4:30
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30 The king (A)spoke, saying, “Is not this great Babylon, that I have built for a royal dwelling by my mighty power and for the honor of my majesty?”
Jeremiah 51:58
New King James Version
58 Thus says the Lord of hosts:
“The broad walls of Babylon shall be utterly (A)broken,[a]
And her high gates shall be burned with fire;
(B)The people will labor in vain,
And the nations, because of the fire;
And they shall be weary.”
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- Jeremiah 51:58 Lit. laid utterly bare
Jeremiah 51:53
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53 (A)Though Babylon were to [a]mount up to heaven,
And though she were to fortify the height of her strength,
Yet from Me plunderers would come to her,” says the Lord.
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- Jeremiah 51:53 ascend
Jeremiah 51:20-23
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20 “You(A) are My battle-ax and weapons of war:
For with you I will break the nation in pieces;
With you I will destroy kingdoms;
21 With you I will break in pieces the horse and its rider;
With you I will break in pieces the chariot and its rider;
22 With you also I will break in pieces man and woman;
With you I will break in pieces (B)old and young;
With you I will break in pieces the young man and the maiden;
23 With you also I will break in pieces the shepherd and his flock;
With you I will break in pieces the farmer and his yoke of oxen;
And with you I will break in pieces governors and rulers.
Jeremiah 51:7
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7 (A)Babylon was a golden cup in the Lord’s hand,
That made all the earth drunk.
(B)The nations drank her wine;
Therefore the nations (C)are deranged.
Jeremiah 25:18-27
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18 Jerusalem and the cities of Judah, its kings and its princes, to make them (A)a desolation, an astonishment, a hissing, and (B)a curse, as it is this day; 19 Pharaoh king of Egypt, his servants, his princes, and all his people; 20 all the mixed multitude, all the kings of (C)the land of Uz, all the kings of the land of the (D)Philistines (namely, Ashkelon, Gaza, Ekron, and (E)the remnant of Ashdod); 21 (F)Edom, Moab, and the people of Ammon; 22 all the kings of (G)Tyre, all the kings of Sidon, and the kings of the coastlands which are across the (H)sea; 23 (I)Dedan, Tema, Buz, and all who are in the farthest corners; 24 all the kings of Arabia and all the kings of the (J)mixed multitude who dwell in the desert; 25 all the kings of Zimri, all the kings of (K)Elam, and all the kings of the (L)Medes; 26 (M)all the kings of the north, far and near, one with another; and all the kingdoms of the world which are on the face of the earth. Also the king of [a]Sheshach shall drink after them.
27 “Therefore you shall say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: (N)“Drink, (O)be drunk, and vomit! Fall and rise no more, because of the sword which I will send among you.” ’
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- Jeremiah 25:26 A code word for Babylon, Jer. 51:41
Jeremiah 25:9
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9 behold, I will send and take (A)all the families of the north,’ says the Lord, ‘and Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, (B)My servant, and will bring them against this land, against its inhabitants, and against these nations all around, and will utterly destroy them, and (C)make them an astonishment, a hissing, and perpetual desolations.
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Genesis 11:4
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4 And they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city, and a tower (A)whose top is in the heavens; let us make a (B)name for ourselves, lest we (C)be scattered abroad over the face of the whole earth.”
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2 Peter 3:10
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The Day of the Lord
10 But (A)the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night, in which (B)the heavens will pass away with a great noise, and the elements will melt with fervent heat; both the earth and the works that are in it will be [a]burned up.
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- 2 Peter 3:10 NU laid bare, lit. found
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