Jeremiah 51:47
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47 “Therefore, behold, the days are coming
when (A)I will punish the images of Babylon;
(B)her whole land shall be put to shame,
and all her slain shall fall in the midst of her.
Jeremiah 50:2
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2 “Declare among the nations and proclaim,
set up a banner and proclaim,
conceal it not, and say:
(A)‘Babylon is taken,
(B)Bel is put to shame,
Merodach is dismayed.
(C)Her images are put to shame,
her idols are dismayed.’
Jeremiah 51:52
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52 “Therefore, behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord,
when (A)I will execute judgment upon her images,
(B)and through all her land
the wounded shall groan.
Isaiah 46:1-2
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The Idols of Babylon and the One True God
46 (A)Bel bows down; Nebo stoops;
their idols are on beasts and livestock;
these things you carry are borne
as burdens on weary beasts.
2 They stoop; they bow down together;
they cannot save the burden,
but (B)themselves go into captivity.
Isaiah 21:9
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9 And behold, here come riders,
horsemen in pairs!”
(A)And he answered,
(B)“Fallen, fallen is Babylon;
(C)and all the carved images of her gods
he has shattered to the ground.”
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 51:24
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24 (A)“I will repay Babylon and all the inhabitants of Chaldea before your very eyes for all the evil that they have done in Zion, declares the Lord.
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Jeremiah 51:18
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18 They are worthless, a work of delusion;
at the time of their punishment they shall perish.
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 50:12-16
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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.
14 (E)Set yourselves in array against Babylon all around,
(F)all you who bend the bow;
shoot at her, spare no arrows,
(G)for she has sinned against the Lord.
15 (H)Raise a shout against her all around;
she has surrendered;
her bulwarks have fallen;
(I)her walls are thrown down.
For (J)this is the vengeance of the Lord:
take vengeance on her;
(K)do to her as she has done.
16 Cut off from Babylon the sower,
and the one who handles the sickle in time of harvest;
(L)because of the sword of the oppressor,
(M)every one shall turn to his own people,
and every one shall flee to his own land.
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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Jeremiah 23:34
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34 And as for the prophet, priest, or one of the people who says, ‘The burden of the Lord,’ (A)I will punish that man and his household.
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Jeremiah 13:21
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21 What will you say when they set as head over you
those whom you yourself have taught to be friends to you?
(A)Will not pangs take hold of you
like those of a woman in labor?
Jeremiah 11:22
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22 therefore thus says the Lord of hosts: “Behold, I will punish them. The young men shall die by the sword, their sons and their daughters shall die by famine,
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