Isaiah 26:5
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5 For He brings [a]down those who dwell on high,
(A)The lofty city;
He lays it low,
He lays it low to the ground,
He brings it down to the dust.
Footnotes
- Isaiah 26:5 low
Revelation 18:2
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2 And he cried [a]mightily with a loud voice, saying, (A)“Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and (B)has become a dwelling place of demons, a prison for every foul spirit, and (C)a cage for every unclean and hated bird!
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- Revelation 18:2 NU, M omit mightily
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.
Job 40:11-13
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11 Disperse the rage of your wrath;
Look on everyone who is proud, and humble him.
12 Look on everyone who is (A)proud, and bring him low;
Tread down the wicked in their place.
13 Hide them in the dust together,
Bind their faces in hidden darkness.
Jeremiah 51:64
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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 51:25-26
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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.
26 They shall not take from you a stone for a corner
Nor a stone for a foundation,
(C)But you shall be desolate forever,” says the Lord.
Isaiah 13:11
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11 “I will (A)punish the world for its evil,
And the wicked for their iniquity;
(B)I will halt the arrogance of the proud,
And will lay low the haughtiness of the [a]terrible.
Footnotes
- Isaiah 13:11 Or tyrants
Jeremiah 50:31-32
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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.
32 The most (A)proud shall stumble and fall,
And no one will raise him up;
(B)I will kindle a fire in his cities,
And it will devour all around him.”
Footnotes
- Jeremiah 50:31 So with MT, Tg.; LXX, Vg. The time of your punishment
Isaiah 47:1
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The Humiliation of Babylon
47 “Come (A)down and (B)sit in the dust,
O virgin daughter of (C)Babylon;
Sit on the ground without a throne,
O daughter of the Chaldeans!
For you shall no more be called
Tender and [a]delicate.
Footnotes
- Isaiah 47:1 dainty
Isaiah 32:19
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Isaiah 25:11-12
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11 And He will spread out His hands in their midst
As a swimmer reaches out to swim,
And He will bring down their (A)pride
Together with the trickery of their hands.
12 The (B)fortress of the high fort of your walls
He will bring down, lay low,
And bring to the ground, down to the dust.
Isaiah 14:13
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13 For you have said in your heart:
(A)‘I will ascend into heaven,
(B)I will exalt my throne above the stars of God;
I will also sit on the (C)mount of the congregation
(D)On the farthest sides of the north;
Isaiah 2:12
New King James Version
12 For the day of the Lord of hosts
Shall come upon everything proud and lofty,
Upon everything lifted up—
And it shall be brought low—
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