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.
Revelation 14:8
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8 Another angel, a second, followed, saying, (A)“Fallen, fallen is (B)Babylon the great, (C)she who made all nations drink (D)the wine of the passion[a] of her sexual immorality.”
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- Revelation 14:8 Or wrath
Jeremiah 51:37
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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.
Jeremiah 51:8
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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.
Jeremiah 50:39-40
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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. 40 (B)As when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah and their neighboring cities, declares the Lord, (C)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
Revelation 18:21
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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;
Jeremiah 51:60-64
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60 (A)Jeremiah wrote in a book all the disaster that should come upon Babylon, (B)all these words that are written concerning Babylon. 61 And Jeremiah said to Seraiah: “When you come to Babylon, see that you read all these words, 62 and say, ‘O Lord, you have said concerning this place that you will cut it off, so (C)that nothing shall dwell in it, neither man nor beast, and it shall be (D)desolate forever.’ 63 When you finish reading this book, (E)(F)tie a stone to it (G)and cast it into the midst of the Euphrates, 64 and say, (H)‘Thus shall Babylon sink, to rise no more, because of the disaster that I am bringing upon her, (I)and they shall become exhausted.’”
Thus far are the words of Jeremiah.
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Isaiah 21:8-9
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8 Then he who saw cried out:[a]
(A)“Upon a watchtower I stand, O Lord,
continually by day,
and at my post I am stationed
whole nights.
9 And behold, here come riders,
horsemen in pairs!”
(B)And he answered,
(C)“Fallen, fallen is Babylon;
(D)and all the carved images of her gods
he has shattered to the ground.”
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- Isaiah 21:8 Dead Sea Scroll, Syriac; Masoretic Text Then a lion cried out, or Then he cried out like a lion
Revelation 18:10
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10 (A)They will stand far off, in fear of her torment, and say,
“Alas! Alas! (B)You great city,
you mighty city, Babylon!
For (C)in a single hour your judgment has come.”
Revelation 17:18
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18 And the woman that you saw is (A)the great city that has dominion over the kings of the earth.”
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Revelation 17:5
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5 And on her forehead was written a name of (A)mystery: (B)“Babylon the great, mother of prostitutes and of earth's abominations.”
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Isaiah 13:19-22
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19 And Babylon, (A)the glory of kingdoms,
the splendor and pomp of the Chaldeans,
will be (B)like Sodom and Gomorrah
when God overthrew them.
20 (C)It will never be inhabited
or lived in for all generations;
no (D)Arab will pitch his tent there;
no (E)shepherds will make their flocks lie down there.
21 But (F)wild animals will lie down there,
and their houses will be full of howling creatures;
there (G)ostriches[a] will dwell,
and there wild goats will dance.
22 Hyenas[b] will cry in its towers,
and (H)jackals in (I)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
Isaiah 34:11-15
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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.
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
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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
Leviticus 11:13-19
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13 “And these you shall detest among the birds;[a] they shall not be eaten; they are (A)detestable: (B)the eagle,[b] the bearded vulture, the black vulture, 14 the kite, (C)the falcon of any kind, 15 every raven of any kind, 16 the ostrich, the nighthawk, the sea gull, the (D)hawk of any kind, 17 the (E)little owl, the cormorant, the (F)short-eared owl, 18 the barn owl, the (G)tawny owl, the carrion vulture, 19 the stork, the heron of any kind, the hoopoe, and (H)the bat.
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- Leviticus 11:13 Or things that fly; compare Genesis 1:20
- Leviticus 11:13 The identity of many of these birds is uncertain
Mark 5:3-5
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3 (A)He lived among the tombs. And no one could bind him anymore, not even with a chain, 4 for he had often been bound with shackles and chains, but he wrenched the chains apart, and he broke the shackles in pieces. No one had the strength to subdue him. 5 Night and day among the tombs and on the mountains he was always crying out and cutting himself with stones.
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Revelation 14:15
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15 And another angel (A)came out of the temple, calling with a loud voice to him who sat on the cloud, (B)“Put in your sickle, and reap, for the hour to reap has come, for (C)the harvest of the earth is fully ripe.”
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Revelation 10:3
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3 and called out with a loud voice, (A)like a lion roaring. When he called out, the seven thunders sounded.
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Revelation 5:2
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2 And (A)I saw a mighty angel proclaiming with a loud voice, “Who is worthy to open the scroll and break its seals?”
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Luke 8:27-28
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27 When Jesus[a] had stepped out on land, there met him a man from the city who had demons. For a long time he had worn no clothes, and he had not lived in a house (A)but among the tombs. 28 When he saw Jesus, he (B)cried out and fell down before him and said (C)with a loud voice, “What have you to do with me, Jesus, (D)Son of (E)the Most High God? I beg you, do not torment me.”
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Zephaniah 2:14
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14 (A)Herds shall lie down in her midst,
all kinds of beasts;[a]
(B)even the owl and the hedgehog[b]
shall lodge in her capitals;
a voice shall hoot in the window;
devastation will be on the threshold;
for (C)her cedar work will be laid bare.
Footnotes
- Zephaniah 2:14 Hebrew beasts of every nation
- Zephaniah 2:14 The identity of the animals rendered owl and hedgehog is uncertain
Jeremiah 25:30
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30 “You, therefore, shall prophesy against them all these words, and say to them:
(A)“‘The Lord will roar from on high,
and from his holy habitation utter his voice;
he will roar mightily against his fold,
(B)and shout, like those who tread grapes,
against all the inhabitants of the earth.
Revelation 1:15
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15 (A)his feet were like burnished bronze, refined in a furnace, and (B)his voice was like the roar of many waters.
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