Jeremiah 50:12
English Standard Version
12 your mother shall be utterly shamed,
and she who bore you shall be disgraced.
Behold, she shall be the last of the nations,
(A)a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert.
Jeremiah 50:12
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Jeremiah 51:43
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43 Her cities have become a horror,
(A)a land of drought and a desert,
(B)a land in which no one dwells,
and through which no son of man passes.
Jeremiah 51:43
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Revelation 18:21-23
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21 Then (A)a mighty angel (B)took up a stone like a great millstone and threw it into the sea, saying,
“So will Babylon (C)the great city be thrown down with violence,
and will be found no more;
22 and (D)the sound of harpists and musicians, of flute players and trumpeters,
will be heard in you no more,
and a craftsman of any craft
will be found in you no more,
and (E)the sound of the mill
will be heard in you no more,
23 and the light of a lamp
will shine in you no more,
and (F)the voice of bridegroom and bride
will be heard in you no more,
for (G)your merchants were the great ones of the earth,
and all nations were deceived (H)by your sorcery.
Revelation 18:21-23
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The Finality of Babylon’s Doom
21 Then a mighty angel(A) picked up a boulder the size of a large millstone and threw it into the sea,(B) and said:
“With such violence
the great city(C) of Babylon will be thrown down,
never to be found again.
22 The music of harpists and musicians, pipers and trumpeters,
will never be heard in you again.(D)
No worker of any trade
will ever be found in you again.
The sound of a millstone
will never be heard in you again.(E)
23 The light of a lamp
will never shine in you again.
The voice of bridegroom and bride
will never be heard in you again.(F)
Your merchants were the world’s important people.(G)
By your magic spell(H) all the nations were led astray.
Revelation 17:5
English Standard Version
5 And on her forehead was written a name of (A)mystery: (B)“Babylon the great, mother of prostitutes and of earth's abominations.”
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Revelation 17:5
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5 The name written on her forehead was a mystery:(A)
Galatians 4:26
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26 But (A)the Jerusalem above is free, and she is our mother.
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Galatians 4:26
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26 But the Jerusalem that is above(A) is free, and she is our mother.
Jeremiah 51:62-64
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62 and say, ‘O Lord, you have said concerning this place that you will cut it off, so (A)that nothing shall dwell in it, neither man nor beast, and it shall be (B)desolate forever.’ 63 When you finish reading this book, (C)(D)tie a stone to it (E)and cast it into the midst of the Euphrates, 64 and say, (F)‘Thus shall Babylon sink, to rise no more, because of the disaster that I am bringing upon her, (G)and they shall become exhausted.’”
Thus far are the words of Jeremiah.
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Jeremiah 51:62-64
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62 Then say, ‘Lord, you have said you will destroy this place, so that neither people nor animals will live in it; it will be desolate(A) forever.’ 63 When you finish reading this scroll, tie a stone to it and throw it into the Euphrates.(B) 64 Then say, ‘So will Babylon sink to rise no more(C) because of the disaster I will bring on her. And her people(D) will fall.’”(E)
The words of Jeremiah end(F) here.
Jeremiah 51:25-26
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25 “Behold, I am against you, O destroying mountain,
declares the Lord,
which destroys the whole earth;
I will stretch out my hand against you,
and roll you down from the crags,
(A)and make you a burnt mountain.
26 No (B)stone shall be taken from you for a corner
and no stone for a foundation,
but you shall be (C)a perpetual waste,
declares the Lord.
Jeremiah 51:25-26
New International Version
25 “I am against(A) you, you destroying mountain,
you who destroy the whole earth,”(B)
declares the Lord.
“I will stretch out my hand(C) against you,
roll you off the cliffs,
and make you a burned-out mountain.(D)
26 No rock will be taken from you for a cornerstone,
nor any stone for a foundation,
for you will be desolate(E) forever,”
declares the Lord.
Jeremiah 50:35-40
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35 “A sword against the Chaldeans, declares the Lord,
and against the inhabitants of Babylon,
and against (A)her officials and her (B)wise men!
36 A sword against the diviners,
that they may become fools!
A sword against her (C)warriors,
that they may be destroyed!
37 A sword against her horses and against her chariots,
and against all (D)the foreign troops in her midst,
that (E)they may become women!
(F)A sword against all her treasures,
that they may be plundered!
38 (G)A drought against her waters,
that they may be dried up!
(H)For it is a land of images,
and they are mad over idols.
39 (I)“Therefore wild beasts shall dwell with hyenas in Babylon,[a] and ostriches shall dwell in her. She shall never again have people, nor be inhabited for all generations. 40 (J)As when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah and their neighboring cities, declares the Lord, (K)so no man shall dwell there, and no son of man shall sojourn in her.
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- Jeremiah 50:39 Hebrew lacks in Babylon
Jeremiah 50:35-40
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35 “A sword(A) against the Babylonians!”(B)
declares the Lord—
“against those who live in Babylon
and against her officials and wise(C) men!
36 A sword against her false prophets!
They will become fools.
A sword against her warriors!(D)
They will be filled with terror.(E)
37 A sword against her horses and chariots(F)
and all the foreigners in her ranks!
They will become weaklings.(G)
A sword against her treasures!(H)
They will be plundered.
38 A drought on[a] her waters!(I)
They will dry(J) up.
For it is a land of idols,(K)
idols that will go mad with terror.
39 “So desert creatures(L) and hyenas will live there,
and there the owl will dwell.
It will never again be inhabited
or lived in from generation to generation.(M)
40 As I overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah(N)
along with their neighboring towns,”
declares the Lord,
“so no one will live there;
no people will dwell in it.(O)
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- Jeremiah 50:38 Or A sword against
Jeremiah 49:2
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2 Therefore, behold, the days are coming,
declares the Lord,
when I will cause (A)the battle cry to be heard
against (B)Rabbah of the Ammonites;
it shall become a desolate (C)mound,
and its villages shall be burned with fire;
then Israel shall dispossess those who dispossessed him,
says the Lord.
Jeremiah 49:2
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Jeremiah 25:26
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26 all the kings of (A)the north, far and near, one after another, and all the kingdoms of the world that are on the face of the earth. And after them the king of (B)Babylon[a] shall drink.
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- Jeremiah 25:26 Hebrew Sheshach, a code name for Babylon
Jeremiah 25:26
New International Version
26 and all the kings of the north,(A) near and far, one after the other—all the kingdoms(B) on the face of the earth. And after all of them, the king of Sheshak[a](C) will drink it too.
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- Jeremiah 25:26 Sheshak is a cryptogram for Babylon.
Jeremiah 25:12
English Standard Version
12 Then after (A)seventy years are completed, (B)I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation, (C)the land of the Chaldeans, for their iniquity, declares the Lord, (D)making the land an everlasting waste.
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Jeremiah 25:12
New International Version
12 “But when the seventy years(A) are fulfilled, I will punish the king of Babylon(B) and his nation, the land of the Babylonians,[a] for their guilt,” declares the Lord, “and will make it desolate(C) forever.
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- Jeremiah 25:12 Or Chaldeans
Isaiah 23:13
English Standard Version
13 Behold the land of (A)the Chaldeans! This is the people that was not;[a] Assyria destined it for wild beasts. They erected (B)their siege towers, they stripped her palaces bare, they made her a ruin.
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- Isaiah 23:13 Or that has become nothing
Isaiah 23:13
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Isaiah 14:22
English Standard Version
22 “I will rise up against them,” declares the Lord of hosts, “and will cut off from Babylon name and (A)remnant, (B)descendants and posterity,” declares the Lord.
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Isaiah 14:22
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