Jeremiah 50:12
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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 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.
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 17:5
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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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Galatians 4:26
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26 But (A)the Jerusalem above is free, and she is our mother.
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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 51:25-26
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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 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 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 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 25:12
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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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Isaiah 23:13
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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 14:22
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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 13:20-22
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20 (A)It will never be inhabited
or lived in for all generations;
no (B)Arab will pitch his tent there;
no (C)shepherds will make their flocks lie down there.
21 But (D)wild animals will lie down there,
and their houses will be full of howling creatures;
there (E)ostriches[a] will dwell,
and there wild goats will dance.
22 Hyenas[b] will cry in its towers,
and (F)jackals in (G)the pleasant palaces;
its time is close at hand
and its days will not be prolonged.
Footnotes
- Isaiah 13:21 Or owls
- Isaiah 13:22 Or foxes
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