Jeremiah 51:34
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34 “Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon
Has (A)devoured me, he has crushed me;
He has made me an (B)empty vessel,
He has swallowed me up like a monster;
He has filled his stomach with my delicacies,
He has spit me out.
Jeremiah 50:17
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17 “Israel is like (A)scattered sheep;
(B)The lions have driven him away.
First (C)the king of Assyria devoured him;
Now at last this (D)Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has broken his bones.”
Jeremiah 51:44
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44 I will punish (A)Bel[a] in Babylon,
And I will bring out of his mouth what he has swallowed;
And the nations shall not stream to him anymore.
Yes, (B)the wall of Babylon shall fall.
Footnotes
- Jeremiah 51:44 A Babylonian god
Matthew 23:13
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13 “But (A)woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you shut up the kingdom of heaven against men; for you neither go in yourselves, nor do you allow those who are entering to go in.
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Isaiah 24:1-3
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Impending Judgment on the Earth
24 Behold, the Lord makes the earth empty and makes it waste,
Distorts its surface
And scatters abroad its inhabitants.
2 And it shall be:
As with the people, so with the (A)priest;
As with the servant, so with his master;
As with the maid, so with her mistress;
(B)As with the buyer, so with the seller;
As with the lender, so with the borrower;
As with the creditor, so with the debtor.
3 The land shall be entirely emptied and utterly plundered,
For the Lord has spoken this word.
Job 20:15
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15 He swallows down riches
And vomits them up again;
God casts them out of his belly.
Nahum 2:2
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2 For the Lord will restore the excellence of Jacob
Like the excellence of Israel,
For the emptiers have emptied them out
And ruined their vine branches.
Amos 8:4
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4 Hear this, you who [a]swallow up the needy,
And make the poor of the land fail,
Ezekiel 36:3
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3 therefore prophesy, and say, ‘Thus says the Lord God: “Because they made you desolate and swallowed you up on every side, so that you became the possession of the rest of the nations, (A)and you are taken up by the lips of (B)talkers and slandered by the people”—
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Lamentations 2:16
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16 (A)All your enemies have opened their mouth against you;
They hiss and gnash their teeth.
They say, (B)“We have swallowed her up!
Surely this is the (C)day we have waited for;
We have found it, (D)we have seen it!”
Nahum 2:9-10
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9 [a]Take spoil of silver!
Take spoil of (A)gold!
There is no end of treasure,
Or wealth of every desirable prize.
10 She is empty, desolate, and waste!
The heart melts, and the knees shake;
Much pain is in every side,
And all their faces [b]are drained of color.
Footnotes
- Nahum 2:9 Plunder
- Nahum 2:10 LXX, Tg., Vg. gather blackness; Joel 2:6
Lamentations 1:14-15
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14 “The(A) yoke of my transgressions was [a]bound;
They were woven together by His hands,
And thrust upon my neck.
He made my strength fail;
The Lord delivered me into the hands of those whom I am not able to withstand.
15 “The Lord has trampled underfoot all my mighty men in my midst;
He has called an assembly against me
To crush my young men;
(B)The Lord trampled as in a winepress
The virgin daughter of Judah.
Footnotes
- Lamentations 1:14 So with MT, Tg.; LXX, Syr., Vg. watched over
Lamentations 1:1
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Jerusalem in Affliction
1 How lonely sits the city
That was full of people!
(A)How like a widow is she,
Who was great among the nations!
The (B)princess among the provinces
Has become a [a]slave!
Footnotes
- Lamentations 1:1 Lit. forced laborer
Jeremiah 51:49
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49 As Babylon has caused the slain of Israel to fall,
So at Babylon the slain of all the earth shall fall.
Jeremiah 48:11-12
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11 “Moab has been at ease from [a]his youth;
He (A)has settled on his dregs,
And has not been emptied from vessel to vessel,
Nor has he gone into captivity.
Therefore his taste remained in him,
And his scent has not changed.
12 “Therefore behold, the days are coming,” says the Lord,
“That I shall send him [b]wine-workers
Who will tip him over
And empty his vessels
And break the bottles.
Footnotes
- Jeremiah 48:11 Heb. uses masc. and fem. pronouns interchangeably in this chapter.
- Jeremiah 48:12 Lit. tippers of wine bottles
Jeremiah 39:1-8
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The Fall of Jerusalem(A)
39 In the (B)ninth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the tenth month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and all his army came against Jerusalem, and besieged it. 2 In the (C)eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, on the ninth day of the month, the [a]city was penetrated.
3 (D)Then all the princes of the king of Babylon came in and sat in the Middle Gate: Nergal-Sharezer, Samgar-Nebo, Sarsechim, [b]Rabsaris, Nergal-Sarezer, [c]Rabmag, with the rest of the princes of the king of Babylon.
4 (E)So it was, when Zedekiah the king of Judah and all the men of war saw them, that they fled and went out of the city by night, by way of the king’s garden, by the gate between the two walls. And he went out by way of the [d]plain. 5 But the Chaldean army pursued them and (F)overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho. And when they had captured him, they brought him up to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, to (G)Riblah in the land of Hamath, where he pronounced judgment on him. 6 Then the king of Babylon killed the sons of Zedekiah before his (H)eyes in Riblah; the king of Babylon also killed all the (I)nobles of Judah. 7 Moreover (J)he put out Zedekiah’s eyes, and bound him with bronze [e]fetters to carry him off to Babylon. 8 (K)And the Chaldeans burned the king’s house and the houses of the people with (L)fire, and broke down the (M)walls of Jerusalem.
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- Jeremiah 39:2 city wall was breached
- Jeremiah 39:3 A title, probably Chief Officer; also v. 13
- Jeremiah 39:3 A title, probably Troop Commander; also v. 13
- Jeremiah 39:4 Or Arabah; the Jordan Valley
- Jeremiah 39:7 chains
Isaiah 34:11
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11 (A)But the [a]pelican and the [b]porcupine shall possess it,
Also the owl and the raven shall dwell in it.
And (B)He shall stretch out over it
The line of confusion and the stones of emptiness.
Footnotes
- Isaiah 34:11 Or owl
- Isaiah 34:11 Or hedgehog
Proverbs 1:12
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Footnotes
- Proverbs 1:12 Or the grave
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