Jeremiah 50:3
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3 “For (A)out of the north a nation has come up against her, (B)which shall make her land a desolation, and none shall dwell in it; (C)both man and beast shall flee away.
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Zephaniah 1:3
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3 “I will sweep away (A)man and beast;
I will sweep away the birds of the heavens
and (B)the fish of the sea,
and (C)the rubble[a] with the wicked.
I will (D)cut off mankind
from the face of the earth,” declares the Lord.
Notas al pie
- Zephaniah 1:3 Or stumbling blocks (that is, idols)
Jeremiah 51:11
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Jeremiah 51:62
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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.’
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Jeremiah 50:9
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9 For behold, I am stirring up and bringing against Babylon (A)a gathering of great nations, from the north country. And they shall array themselves against her. From there she shall be taken. Their arrows are like a skilled warrior who does not return empty-handed.
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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.
Jeremiah 51:48
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48 (A)Then the heavens and the earth,
and all that is in them,
shall sing for joy over Babylon,
(B)for the destroyers shall come against them out of the north,
declares the Lord.
Jeremiah 51:37-44
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37 and Babylon shall become (A)a heap of ruins,
(B)the haunt of jackals,
(C)a horror (D)and a hissing,
without inhabitant.
38 (E)“They shall roar together (F)like lions;
they shall growl like lions' cubs.
39 (G)While they are inflamed (H)I will prepare them a feast
and (I)make them drunk, that they may become merry,
(J)then sleep a perpetual sleep
and not wake, declares the Lord.
40 I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter,
like rams and male goats.
41 “How (K)Babylon[a] is taken,
(L)the praise of the whole earth (M)seized!
How Babylon has become
a horror among the nations!
42 (N)The sea has come up on Babylon;
she is covered with its tumultuous waves.
43 Her cities have become a horror,
(O)a land of drought and a desert,
(P)a land in which no one dwells,
and through which no son of man passes.
44 And I will punish (Q)Bel in Babylon,
and (R)take out of his mouth (S)what he has swallowed.
(T)The nations shall no longer flow to him;
(U)the wall of Babylon has fallen.
Notas al pie
- Jeremiah 51:41 Hebrew Sheshach, a code name for Babylon
Jeremiah 51:25-27
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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.
27 (D)“Set up a standard on the earth;
(E)blow the trumpet among the nations;
(F)prepare (G)the nations for war against her;
summon against her (H)the kingdoms,
(I)Ararat, Minni, and (J)Ashkenaz;
appoint a (K)marshal against her;
(L)bring up horses like bristling locusts.
Jeremiah 51:8-9
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8 (A)Suddenly Babylon has fallen and been broken;
(B)wail for her!
(C)Take balm for her pain;
perhaps she may be healed.
9 We would have healed Babylon,
but she was not healed.
(D)Forsake her, and (E)let us go
each to his own country,
for (F)her judgment has reached up to heaven
and has been lifted up even to the skies.
Jeremiah 50:35-41
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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.
41 (L)“Behold, a people comes from the north;
a mighty nation and many kings
are stirring from the farthest parts of the earth.
Notas al pie
- Jeremiah 50:39 Hebrew lacks in Babylon
Jeremiah 50:12-13
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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.
13 (B)Because of the wrath of the Lord she shall not be inhabited
but shall be an utter desolation;
(C)everyone who passes by Babylon shall be appalled,
(D)and hiss because of all her wounds.
Jeremiah 21:6
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6 And I will strike down the inhabitants of this city, both man and beast. They shall die of a great pestilence.
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Jeremiah 7:20
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20 Therefore thus says the Lord God: Behold, (A)my anger and my wrath will be poured out on this place, upon man and beast, upon the trees of the field and the fruit of the ground; (B)it will burn and not be quenched.”
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Isaiah 14:22-24
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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. 23 “And I will make it a possession of the (C)hedgehog,[a] and pools of water, and I will sweep it with the broom of destruction,” declares the Lord of hosts.
An Oracle Concerning Assyria
24 The Lord of hosts has sworn:
(D)“As I have planned,
so shall it be,
and as I have purposed,
so shall it stand,
Notas al pie
- Isaiah 14:23 Possibly porcupine, or owl
Isaiah 13:17-22
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17 Behold, (A)I am stirring up the Medes against them,
who have no regard for silver
and do not delight in gold.
18 (B)Their bows will slaughter[a] the young men;
they will have no mercy on the fruit of the womb;
their eyes will not pity children.
19 And Babylon, (C)the glory of kingdoms,
the splendor and pomp of the Chaldeans,
will be (D)like Sodom and Gomorrah
when God overthrew them.
20 (E)It will never be inhabited
or lived in for all generations;
no (F)Arab will pitch his tent there;
no (G)shepherds will make their flocks lie down there.
21 But (H)wild animals will lie down there,
and their houses will be full of howling creatures;
there (I)ostriches[b] will dwell,
and there wild goats will dance.
22 Hyenas[c] will cry in its towers,
and (J)jackals in (K)the pleasant palaces;
its time is close at hand
and its days will not be prolonged.
Notas al pie
- Isaiah 13:18 Hebrew dash in pieces
- Isaiah 13:21 Or owls
- Isaiah 13:22 Or foxes
Isaiah 13:5-10
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5 (A)They come from a distant land,
from the end of the heavens,
the Lord and the weapons of his indignation,
to destroy the whole land.[a]
6 (B)Wail, for (C)the day of the Lord is near;
as destruction from the Almighty[b] it will come!
7 Therefore all hands will be feeble,
and every human heart (D)will melt.
8 They will be dismayed:
(E)pangs and agony will seize them;
(F)they will be in anguish like a woman in labor.
They will look aghast at one another;
their faces will be aflame.
9 Behold, (G)the day of the Lord comes,
cruel, with wrath and fierce anger,
to make the land a desolation
and (H)to destroy its sinners from it.
10 (I)For the stars of the heavens and their constellations
will not give their light;
(J)the sun will be dark at its rising,
and the moon will not shed its light.
Notas al pie
- Isaiah 13:5 Or earth; also verse 9
- Isaiah 13:6 The Hebrew words for destruction and almighty sound alike
Exodus 12:12
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12 For (A)I will pass through the land of Egypt that night, and I will strike all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and on (B)all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgments: (C)I am the Lord.
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Genesis 6:7
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7 So the Lord said, “I will blot out man whom I have created from the face of the land, man and animals and creeping things and birds of the heavens, for I am sorry that I have made them.”
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