Jeremiah 51:11
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11 (A)Make[a] the arrows bright!
Gather the shields!
(B)The Lord has raised up the spirit of the kings of the Medes.
(C)For His plan is against Babylon to destroy it,
Because it is (D)the vengeance of the Lord,
The vengeance for His temple.
Footnotes
- Jeremiah 51:11 Polish the arrows!
Jeremiah 46:4
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4 Harness the horses,
And mount up, you horsemen!
Stand forth with your helmets,
Polish the spears,
(A)Put on the armor!
Jeremiah 50:45
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45 Therefore hear (A)the counsel of the Lord that He has taken against Babylon,
And His (B)purposes that He has proposed against the land of the Chaldeans:
(C)Surely the least of the flock shall draw them out;
Surely He will make their dwelling place desolate with them.
Jeremiah 50:9
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9 (A)For behold, I will raise and cause to come up against Babylon
An assembly of great nations from the north country,
And they shall array themselves against her;
From there she shall be captured.
Their arrows shall be like those of [a]an expert warrior;
(B)None shall return in vain.
Footnotes
- Jeremiah 50:9 So with some Heb. mss., LXX, Syr.; MT, Tg., Vg. a warrior who makes childless
Jeremiah 46:9
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9 Come up, O horses, and rage, O chariots!
And let the mighty men come forth:
[a]The Ethiopians and [b]the Libyans who handle the shield,
And the Lydians (A)who handle and bend the bow.
Footnotes
- Jeremiah 46:9 Heb. Cush
- Jeremiah 46:9 Heb. Put
Revelation 17:16-17
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16 And the ten horns which you [a]saw on the beast, (A)these will hate the harlot, make her (B)desolate (C)and naked, eat her flesh and (D)burn her with fire. 17 (E)For God has put it into their hearts to fulfill His purpose, to be of one mind, and to give their kingdom to the beast, (F)until the words of God are fulfilled.
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- Revelation 17:16 NU, M saw, and the beast
Zechariah 14:12
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12 And this shall be the plague with which the Lord will strike all the people who fought against Jerusalem:
Their flesh shall [a]dissolve while they stand on their feet,
Their eyes shall dissolve in their sockets,
And their tongues shall dissolve in their mouths.
Footnotes
- Zechariah 14:12 Lit. decay
Zechariah 14:2
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2 For (A)I will gather all the nations to battle against Jerusalem;
The city shall be taken,
The houses [a]rifled,
And the women ravished.
Half of the city shall go into captivity,
But the remnant of the people shall not be cut off from the city.
Footnotes
- Zechariah 14:2 Or plundered
Zechariah 12:2-3
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2 “Behold, I will make Jerusalem (A)a cup of [a]drunkenness to all the surrounding peoples, when they lay siege against Judah and Jerusalem. 3 (B)And it shall happen in that day that I will make Jerusalem (C)a very heavy stone for all peoples; all who would heave it away will surely be cut in pieces, though all nations of the earth are gathered against it.
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- Zechariah 12:2 Lit. reeling
Habakkuk 2:17-20
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17 For the violence done to Lebanon will cover you,
And the plunder of beasts which made them afraid,
Because of men’s blood
And the violence of the land and the city,
And of all who dwell in it.
18 “What profit is the image, that its maker should carve it,
The molded image, a teacher of lies,
That the maker of its mold should trust in it,
To make mute idols?
19 Woe to him who says to wood, ‘Awake!’
To silent stone, ‘Arise! It shall teach!’
Behold, it is overlaid with gold and silver,
Yet in it there is no breath at all.
20 “But(A) the Lord is in His holy temple.
Let all the earth keep silence before Him.”
Jeremiah 51:35
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35 Let the violence done to me and my flesh be upon Babylon,”
The inhabitant of Zion will say;
“And my blood be upon the inhabitants of Chaldea!”
Jerusalem will say.
Jeremiah 51:27-29
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27 (A)Set up a banner in the land,
Blow the trumpet among the nations!
(B)Prepare the nations against her,
Call (C)the kingdoms together against her:
Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz.
Appoint a general against her;
Cause the horses to come up like the bristling locusts.
28 Prepare against her the nations,
With the kings of the Medes,
Its governors and all its rulers,
All the land of his dominion.
29 And the land will tremble and sorrow;
For every (D)purpose of the Lord shall be performed against Babylon,
(E)To make the land of Babylon a desolation without inhabitant.
Jeremiah 51:24
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24 “And(A) I will repay Babylon
And all the inhabitants of Chaldea
For all the evil they have done
In Zion in your sight,” says the Lord.
Jeremiah 51:12
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12 (A)Set up the standard on the walls of Babylon;
Make the guard strong,
Set up the watchmen,
Prepare the ambushes.
For the Lord has both devised and done
What He spoke against the inhabitants of Babylon.
Jeremiah 50:28-29
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28 The voice of those who flee and escape from the land of Babylon
(A)Declares in Zion the vengeance of the Lord our God,
The vengeance of His temple.
29 “Call together the archers against Babylon.
All you who bend the bow, encamp against it all around;
Let none of them [a]escape.
(B)Repay her according to her work;
According to all she has done, do to her;
(C)For she has been proud against the Lord,
Against the Holy One of Israel.
Footnotes
- Jeremiah 50:29 Qr., some Heb. mss., LXX, Tg. add to her
Jeremiah 50:25
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25 The Lord has opened His armory,
And has brought out (A)the weapons of His indignation;
For this is the work of the Lord God of hosts
In the land of the Chaldeans.
Jeremiah 50:14-15
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14 “Put(A) yourselves in array against Babylon all around,
All you who bend the bow;
Shoot at her, spare no arrows,
For she has sinned against the Lord.
15 Shout against her all around;
She has (B)given her hand,
Her foundations have fallen,
(C)Her walls are thrown down;
For (D)it is the vengeance of the Lord.
Take vengeance on her.
As she has done, so do to her.
Isaiah 46:11
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11 Calling a bird of prey (A)from the east,
The man (B)who executes My counsel, from a far country.
Indeed (C)I have spoken it;
I will also bring it to pass.
I have purposed it;
I will also do it.
Isaiah 45:5
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5 I (A)am the Lord, and (B)there is no other;
There is no God besides Me.
(C)I will gird you, though you have not known Me,
Isaiah 45:1
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Cyrus, God’s Instrument
45 “Thus says the Lord to His anointed,
To (A)Cyrus, whose (B)right hand I have [a]held—
(C)To subdue nations before him
And (D)loose the armor of kings,
To open before him the double doors,
So that the gates will not be shut:
Footnotes
- Isaiah 45:1 strengthened or sustained
Isaiah 41:25
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25 “I have raised up one from the north,
And he shall come;
From the [a]rising of the sun (A)he shall call on My name;
(B)And he shall come against princes as though mortar,
As the potter treads clay.
Footnotes
- Isaiah 41:25 East
Isaiah 21:5
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5 (A)Prepare the table,
Set a watchman in the tower,
Eat and drink.
Arise, you princes,
Anoint the shield!
Isaiah 21:2
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2 A distressing vision is declared to me;
(A)The treacherous dealer deals treacherously,
And the plunderer plunders.
(B)Go up, O Elam!
Besiege, O Media!
All its sighing I have made to cease.
Isaiah 13:17-18
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17 “Behold,(A) I will stir up the Medes against them,
Who will not [a]regard silver;
And as for gold, they will not delight in it.
18 Also their bows will dash the young men to pieces,
And they will have no pity on the fruit of the womb;
Their eye will not spare children.
Footnotes
- Isaiah 13:17 esteem
Isaiah 10:26
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26 And the Lord of hosts will [a]stir up (A)a scourge for him like the slaughter of (B)Midian at the rock of Oreb; (C)as His rod was on the sea, so will He lift it up in the manner of Egypt.
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- Isaiah 10:26 arouse
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