Isaiah 13:20
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20 (A)It will never be inhabited,
Nor will it be settled from generation to generation;
Nor will the Arabian pitch tents there,
Nor will the shepherds make their sheepfolds there.
Jeremiah 51:43
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43 (A)Her cities are a desolation,
A dry land and a wilderness,
A land where (B)no one dwells,
Through which no son of man passes.
Isaiah 14:23
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23 “I will also make it a possession for the (A)porcupine,
And marshes of muddy water;
I will sweep it with the broom of destruction,” says the Lord of hosts.
Jeremiah 51:29
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29 And the land will tremble and sorrow;
For every (A)purpose of the Lord shall be performed against Babylon,
(B)To make the land of Babylon a desolation without inhabitant.
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.
Jeremiah 50:45
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45 Therefore hear (A)the counsel of the Lord that He has taken against Babylon,
And His (B)purposes that He has proposed against the land of the Chaldeans:
(C)Surely the least of the flock shall draw them out;
Surely He will make their dwelling place desolate with them.
Jeremiah 50:39
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39 “Therefore(A) the wild desert beasts shall dwell there with the jackals,
And the ostriches shall dwell in it.
(B)It shall be inhabited no more forever,
Nor shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation.
Jeremiah 50:21
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21 “Go up against the land of Merathaim, against it,
And against the inhabitants of (A)Pekod.
[a]Waste and utterly destroy them,” says the Lord,
“And do (B)according to all that I have commanded you.
Footnotes
- Jeremiah 50:21 Or Attack with the sword
Jeremiah 50:13
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13 Because of the wrath of the Lord
She shall not be inhabited,
(A)But she shall be wholly desolate.
(B)Everyone who goes by Babylon shall be horrified
And hiss at all her plagues.
Jeremiah 50:3
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3 (A)For out of the north (B)a nation comes up against her,
Which shall make her land desolate,
And no one shall dwell therein.
They shall [a]move, they shall depart,
Both man and beast.
Footnotes
- Jeremiah 50:3 Or wander
Isaiah 34:10-15
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10 It shall not be quenched night or day;
(A)Its smoke shall ascend forever.
(B)From generation to generation it shall lie waste;
No one shall pass through it forever and ever.
11 (C)But the [a]pelican and the [b]porcupine shall possess it,
Also the owl and the raven shall dwell in it.
And (D)He shall stretch out over it
The line of confusion and the stones of emptiness.
12 They shall call its nobles to the kingdom,
But none shall be there, and all its princes shall be nothing.
13 And (E)thorns shall come up in its palaces,
Nettles and brambles in its fortresses;
(F)It shall be a habitation of jackals,
A courtyard for ostriches.
14 The wild beasts of the desert shall also meet with the [c]jackals,
And the wild goat shall bleat to its companion;
Also [d]the night creature shall rest there,
And find for herself a place of rest.
15 There the arrow snake shall make her nest and lay eggs
And hatch, and gather them under her shadow;
There also shall the hawks be gathered,
Every one with her mate.
Footnotes
- Isaiah 34:11 Or owl
- Isaiah 34:11 Or hedgehog
- Isaiah 34:14 Lit. howling creatures
- Isaiah 34:14 Heb. lilith
2 Chronicles 17:11
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11 Also some of the Philistines (A)brought Jehoshaphat presents and silver as tribute; and the Arabians brought him flocks, seven thousand seven hundred rams and seven thousand seven hundred male goats.
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Revelation 18:21-23
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Finality of Babylon’s Fall
21 Then a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone and threw it into the sea, saying, (A)“Thus with violence the great city Babylon shall be thrown down, and (B)shall not be found anymore. 22 (C)The sound of harpists, musicians, flutists, and trumpeters shall not be heard in you anymore. No craftsman of any craft shall be found in you anymore, and the sound of a millstone shall not be heard in you anymore. 23 (D)The light of a lamp shall not shine in you anymore, (E)and the voice of bridegroom and bride shall not be heard in you anymore. For (F)your merchants were the great men of the earth, (G)for by your sorcery all the nations were deceived.
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Jeremiah 51:62-64
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62 then you shall say, ‘O Lord, You have spoken against this place to cut it off, so that (A)none shall remain in it, neither man nor beast, but it shall be desolate forever.’ 63 Now it shall be, when you have finished reading this book, (B)that you shall tie a stone to it and throw it out into the Euphrates. 64 Then you shall say, ‘Thus Babylon shall sink and not rise from the catastrophe that I will bring upon her. And they shall be weary.’ ”
Thus far are the words of Jeremiah.
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Jeremiah 51:37
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37 (A)Babylon shall become a heap,
A dwelling place for jackals,
(B)An astonishment and a hissing,
Without an inhabitant.
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