Jeremiah 50:39
English Standard Version
39 (A)“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.
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- Jeremiah 50:39 Hebrew lacks in Babylon
Revelation 18:2
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2 And he called out with a mighty voice,
(A)“Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great!
She has become (B)a dwelling place for demons,
a haunt (C)for every unclean spirit,
a haunt (D)for every unclean bird,
a haunt for every unclean and detestable beast.
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
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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Revelation 18:21-24
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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.
24 And (I)in her was found the blood of prophets and of saints,
and of (J)all who have been slain on earth.”
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 51:43
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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 51:26
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26 No (A)stone shall be taken from you for a corner
and no stone for a foundation,
but you shall be (B)a perpetual waste,
declares the Lord.
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.
Isaiah 34:11-17
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11 (A)But the hawk and the porcupine[a] shall possess it,
the owl and the raven shall dwell in it.
(B)He shall stretch the line of (C)confusion[b] over it,
and the plumb line of emptiness.
12 Its nobles—there is no one there to call it a kingdom,
and all its princes shall be nothing.
13 (D)Thorns shall grow over its strongholds,
nettles and thistles in its fortresses.
It shall be the haunt of (E)jackals,
an abode for ostriches.[c]
14 (F)And wild animals shall meet with hyenas;
the wild goat shall cry to his fellow;
indeed, there the night bird[d] settles
and finds for herself a resting place.
15 There the owl nests and lays
and hatches and gathers her young in her shadow;
indeed, there (G)the hawks are gathered,
each one with her mate.
16 Seek and read from the book of the Lord:
Not one of these shall be missing;
none shall be without her mate.
For the mouth of the Lord has commanded,
and his Spirit has gathered them.
17 (H)He has cast the lot for them;
his hand has portioned it out to them with the line;
they shall possess it forever;
from generation to generation they shall dwell in it.
Footnotes
- Isaiah 34:11 The identity of the animals rendered hawk and porcupine is uncertain
- Isaiah 34:11 Hebrew formlessness
- Isaiah 34:13 Or owls
- Isaiah 34:14 Identity uncertain
Isaiah 14:23
English Standard Version
23 “And I will make it a possession of the (A)hedgehog,[a] and pools of water, and I will sweep it with the broom of destruction,” declares the Lord of hosts.
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- Isaiah 14:23 Possibly porcupine, or owl
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