Jeremiah 51:47
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47 Therefore behold, the days are coming
That I will bring judgment on the carved images of Babylon;
Her whole land shall be ashamed,
And all her slain shall fall in her midst.
Jeremiah 50:2
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2 “Declare among the nations,
Proclaim, and [a]set up a standard;
Proclaim—do not conceal it—
Say, ‘Babylon is (A)taken, (B)Bel is shamed.
[b]Merodach is broken in pieces;
(C)Her idols are humiliated,
Her images are broken in pieces.’
Footnotes
- Jeremiah 50:2 lift
- Jeremiah 50:2 Or Marduk; a Babylonian god
Jeremiah 51:52
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52 “Therefore behold, the days are coming,” says the Lord,
“That I will bring judgment on her carved images,
And throughout all her land the wounded shall groan.
Isaiah 46:1-2
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Dead Idols and the Living God
46 Bel (A)bows down, Nebo stoops;
Their idols were on the beasts and on the cattle.
Your carriages were heavily loaded,
(B)A burden to the weary beast.
2 They stoop, they bow down together;
They could not deliver the burden,
(C)But have themselves gone into captivity.
Isaiah 21:9
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9 And look, here comes a chariot of men with a pair of horsemen!”
Then he answered and said,
(A)“Babylon is fallen, is fallen!
And (B)all the carved images of her gods
He has broken to the ground.”
Jeremiah 51:43
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43 (A)Her cities are a desolation,
A dry land and a wilderness,
A land where (B)no one dwells,
Through which no son of man passes.
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 51:18
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18 They are futile, a work of errors;
In the time of their punishment they shall perish.
Jeremiah 50:35-40
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35 “A sword is against the Chaldeans,” says the Lord,
“Against the inhabitants of Babylon,
And (A)against her princes and (B)her wise men.
36 A sword is (C)against the soothsayers, and they will be fools.
A sword is against her mighty men, and they will be dismayed.
37 A sword is against their horses,
Against their chariots,
And against all (D)the mixed peoples who are in her midst;
And (E)they will become like women.
A sword is against her treasures, and they will be robbed.
38 (F)A [a]drought is against her waters, and they will be dried up.
For it is the land of carved images,
And they are insane with their idols.
39 “Therefore(G) the wild desert beasts shall dwell there with the jackals,
And the ostriches shall dwell in it.
(H)It shall be inhabited no more forever,
Nor shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation.
40 (I)As God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah
And their neighbors,” says the Lord,
“So no one shall reside there,
Nor son of man (J)dwell in it.
Footnotes
- Jeremiah 50:38 So with MT, Tg., Vg.; Syr. sword; LXX omits A drought is
Jeremiah 50:12-16
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12 Your mother shall be deeply ashamed;
She who bore you shall be ashamed.
Behold, the least of the nations shall be a (A)wilderness,
A dry land and a desert.
13 Because of the wrath of the Lord
She shall not be inhabited,
(B)But she shall be wholly desolate.
(C)Everyone who goes by Babylon shall be horrified
And hiss at all her plagues.
14 “Put(D) 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 (E)given her hand,
Her foundations have fallen,
(F)Her walls are thrown down;
For (G)it is the vengeance of the Lord.
Take vengeance on her.
As she has done, so do to her.
16 Cut off the sower from Babylon,
And him who handles the sickle at harvest time.
For fear of the oppressing sword
(H)Everyone shall turn to his own people,
And everyone shall flee to his own land.
Jeremiah 25:12
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12 ‘Then it will come to pass, (A)when [a]seventy years are completed, that I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation, the land of the Chaldeans, for their iniquity,’ says the Lord; (B)‘and I will make it a perpetual desolation.
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- Jeremiah 25:12 Beginning circa 605 b.c. (2 Kin. 24:1) and ending circa 536 b.c. (Ezra 1:1)
Jeremiah 23:34
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34 “And as for the prophet and the priest and the people who say, ‘The [a]oracle of the Lord!’ I will even punish that man and his house.
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- Jeremiah 23:34 burden, prophecy
Jeremiah 13:21
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21 What will you say when He punishes you?
For you have taught them
To be chieftains, to be head over you.
Will not (A)pangs seize you,
Like a woman in [a]labor?
Footnotes
- Jeremiah 13:21 childbirth
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 (A)die by famine;
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