1 | The word that Yahweh spoke concerning Babylon, concerning the land of the Chaldeans, by Jeremiah the prophet. | Jer 25:26 Jer 25:27 Jer 27:7 Jer 51:1-14 Ps 137:8 Ps 137:9 Isa 13:1-3 Isa 14:4 Isa 21:1-10 Isa 47:1-15 Hab 2:5-20 Rev 18:1-24 |
2 | Declare you among the nations and publish, and set up a standard; publish, and don`t conceal: say, Babylon is taken, Bel is put to shame, Merodach is dismayed; her images are put to shame, her idols are dismayed. | Jer 6:18 Jer 31:10 Jer 46:14 Ps 64:9 Ps 96:3 Isa 12:4 Isa 48:6 Isa 66:18 Isa 66:19 Rev 14:6-8 |
3 | For out of the north there comes up a nation against her, which shall make her land desolate, and none shall dwell therein: they are fled, they are gone, both man and animal. | Jer 50:9 Jer 50:41 Jer 51:11 Jer 51:27 Jer 51:48 Isa 13:5 Isa 13:17 Isa 13:18 Isa 13:20 |
4 | In those days, and in that time, says Yahweh, the children of Israel shall come, they and the children of Judah together; they shall go on their way weeping, and shall seek Yahweh their God. | Jer 50:20 Jer 3:16-18 Jer 33:15 Jer 51:47 Jer 51:48 Isa 63:4 |
5 | They shall inquire concerning Zion with their faces turned toward it, [saying], Come you, and join yourselves to Yahweh in an everlasting covenant that shall not be forgotten. | Jer 6:16 Ps 25:8 Ps 25:9 Ps 84:7 Isa 35:8 Jn 7:17 |
6 | My people have been lost sheep: their shepherds have caused them to go astray; they have turned them away on the mountains; they have gone from mountain to hill; they have forgotten their resting-place. | Jer 50:17 Ps 119:176 Isa 53:6 Mt 9:36 Mt 10:6 Mt 15:24 Mt 18:11-13 Lk 15:4-7 1Pe 2:25 |
7 | All who found them have devoured them; and their adversaries said, We are not guilty, because they have sinned against Yahweh, the habitation of righteousness, even Yahweh, the hope of their fathers. | Jer 50:17 Jer 50:33 Jer 12:7-11 Ps 79:7 Isa 9:12 Isa 56:9 |
8 | Flee out of the midst of Babylon, and go forth out of the land of the Chaldeans, and be as the male goats before the flocks. | Jer 51:6 Jer 51:45 Nm 16:26 Isa 48:20 Isa 52:1 Zc 2:6 Zc 2:7 2Co 6:17 Rev 18:4 |
9 | For, behold, I will stir up and cause to come up against Babylon a company of great nations from the north country; and they shall set themselves in array against her; from there she shall be taken: their arrows shall be as of an expert mighty man; none shall return in vain. | Jer 50:3 Jer 50:21 Jer 50:26 Jer 50:41 Jer 50:42 Jer 15:14 Jer 51:1-4 Jer 51:11-4 Jer 51:27-4 Jer 51:28-4 Ezr 1:1 Ezr 1:2 Isa 13:2-5 Isa 13:17-5 Isa 21:2 Isa 41:25 Isa 45:1-4 |
10 | Chaldea shall be a prey: all who prey on her shall be satisfied, says Yahweh. | Jer 25:12 Jer 27:7 |
11 | Because you are glad, because you rejoice, O you who plunder my heritage, because you are wanton as a heifer that treads out [the grain], and neigh as strong horses; | Pr 17:5 Lam 1:21 Lam 2:15 Lam 2:16 Lam 4:21 Lam 4:22 Ezk 25:3-8 Ezk 25:15-17 Ezk 26:2 Ezk 26:3 Ob 1:12 |
12 | your mother shall be utterly put to shame; she who bore you shall be confounded: behold, she shall be the least of the nations, a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert. | Jer 49:2 Ga 4:26 Rev 17:5 |
13 | Because of the wrath of Yahweh she shall not be inhabited, but she shall be wholly desolate: everyone who goes by Babylon shall be astonished, and hiss at all her plagues. | Zc 1:15 |
14 | Set yourselves in array against Babylon round about, all you who bend the bow; shoot at her, spare no arrows: for she has sinned against Yahweh. | Jer 50:9 Jer 51:2 Jer 51:11 Jer 51:12 Jer 51:27 1Sa 17:20 2Sa 10:9 Isa 13:4 Isa 13:17 Isa 13:18 |
15 | Shout against her round about: she has submitted herself; her bulwarks are fallen, her walls are thrown down; for it is the vengeance of Yahweh: take vengeance on her; as she has done, do to her. | Jer 51:14 Jsh 6:5 Jsh 6:20 Ezk 21:22 |
16 | Cut off the sower from Babylon, and him who handles the sickle in the time of harvest: for fear of the oppressing sword they shall turn everyone to his people, and they shall flee everyone to his own land. | Jer 51:23 Jl 1:11 Am 5:16 |
17 | Israel is a hunted sheep; the lions have driven him away: first, the king of Assyria devoured him; and now at last Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon has broken his bones. | Jer 50:6 Jer 23:1 Jer 23:2 Ezk 34:5 Ezk 34:6 Ezk 34:12 Jl 3:2 Mt 9:36-38 Lk 15:4-6 Jn 10:10-12 1Pe 2:25 |
18 | Therefore thus says Yahweh of Hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I will punish the king of Babylon and his land, as I have punished the king of Assyria. | Isa 37:36-38 Ezk 31:3-17 Nah 1:1-3 Zep 2:13-15 |
19 | I will bring Israel again to his pasture, and he shall feed on Carmel and Bashan, and his soul shall be satisfied on the hills of Ephraim and in Gilead. | Jer 50:4 Jer 50:5 Jer 3:18 Jer 23:3 Jer 24:6 Jer 24:7 Jer 30:10 Jer 30:18 Jer 31:8-10 Jer 32:37 Jer 33:7-12 Isa 65:9 Isa 65:10 Ezk 11:17 Ezk 34:13 Ezk 34:14 Ezk 36:24 Ezk 36:33 Ezk 37:21 Ezk 37:22 Ezk 38:8 Ezk 39:25-29 Am 9:14 Am 9:15 Ob 1:17-21 |
20 | In those days, and in that time, says Yahweh, the iniquity of Israel shall be sought for, and there shall be none; and the sins of Judah, and they shall not be found: for I will pardon them whom I leave as a remnant. | Jer 50:4 Jer 33:15 |
21 | Go up against the land of Merathaim, even against it, and against the inhabitants of Pekod: kill and utterly destroy after them, says Yahweh, and do according to all that I have commanded you. | Jer 50:3 Jer 50:9 Jer 50:15 |
22 | A sound of battle is in the land, and of great destruction. | Jer 4:19-21 Jer 51:54-56 Isa 21:2-4 |
23 | How is the hammer of the whole earth cut apart and broken! how is Babylon become a desolation among the nations! | Jer 51:20-24 Isa 14:4-6 Isa 14:12-17 Rev 18:16 |
24 | I have laid a snare for you, and you are also taken, Babylon, and you weren`t aware: you are found, and also caught, because you have striven against Yahweh. | Ec 9:12 |
25 | Yahweh has opened his armory, and has brought forth the weapons of his indignation; for the Lord, Yahweh of Hosts, has a work [to do] in the land of the Chaldeans. | Jer 50:35-38 Jer 51:11 Jer 51:20 Ps 45:3 Ps 45:5 Isa 13:2-5 Isa 13:17-5 Isa 13:18-5 Isa 21:7-9 |
26 | Come against her from the utmost border; open her store-houses; cast her up as heaps, and destroy her utterly; let nothing of her be left. | Jer 50:41 Jer 51:27 Jer 51:28 Isa 5:26 |
27 | Kill all her bulls; let them go down to the slaughter: woe to them! for their day is come, the time of their visitation. | Jer 50:11 Jer 46:21 Ps 22:12 Isa 34:7 Ezk 39:17-20 Rev 19:17 |
28 | The voice of those who flee and escape out of the land of Babylon, to declare in Zion the vengeance of Yahweh our God, the vengeance of his temple. | Jer 51:50 Jer 51:51 Isa 48:20 |
29 | Call together the archers against Babylon, all those who bend the bow; encamp against her round about; let none of it escape: recompense her according to her work; according to all that she has done, do to her; for she has been proud against Yahweh, against the Holy One of Israel. | Jer 50:9 Jer 50:14 Jer 50:26 |
30 | Therefore shall her young men fall in her streets, and all her men of war shall be brought to silence in that day, says Yahweh. | Jer 9:21 Jer 18:21 Jer 48:15 Jer 49:26 Jer 51:3 Jer 51:4 Isa 13:15-18 |
31 | Behold, I am against you, you proud one, says the Lord, Yahweh of Hosts; for your day is come, the time that I will visit you. | Jer 21:13 Jer 51:25 Ezk 5:8 Ezk 29:3 Ezk 29:9 Ezk 29:10 Ezk 38:3 Ezk 39:1 Nah 2:13 Nah 3:5 |
32 | The proud one shall stumble and fall, and none shall raise him up; and I will kindle a fire in his cities, and it shall devour all who are round about him. | Pr 16:18 Pr 18:12 Isa 10:12-15 Isa 14:13-15 Ezk 28:2-9 Dn 5:20 Dn 5:23-30 |
33 | Thus says Yahweh of hosts: The children of Israel and the children of Judah are oppressed together; and all who took them captive hold them fast; they refuse to let them go. | Jer 50:7 Jer 50:17 Jer 50:18 Jer 51:34-36 Isa 14:17 Isa 47:6 Isa 49:24-26 Isa 51:23 Isa 52:4-6 Zc 1:15 Zc 1:16 |
34 | Their Redeemer is strong; Yahweh of Hosts is his name: he will thoroughly plead their cause, that he may give rest to the earth, and disquiet the inhabitants of Babylon. | Ex 6:6 Pr 23:11 Isa 41:14 Isa 43:14 Isa 44:6 Isa 44:23 Isa 44:24 Isa 47:4 Isa 54:5 Mic 4:10 Rev 18:8 |
35 | A sword is on the Chaldeans, says Yahweh, and on the inhabitants of Babylon, and on her princes, and on her wise men. | Jer 47:6 Lv 26:25 Isa 66:16 Ezk 14:2 Hos 11:6 Zc 11:17 |
36 | A sword is on the boasters, and they shall become fools; a sword is on her mighty men, and they shall be dismayed. | Jer 48:30 Isa 43:14 Isa 44:25 2Th 2:9-11 1Ti 4:2 Rev 19:20 Rev 21:8 Rev 22:15 |
37 | A sword is on their horses, and on their chariots, and on all the mingled people who are in the midst of her; and they shall become as women: a sword is on her treasures, and they shall be robbed. | Jer 51:21 Ps 20:7 Ps 20:8 Ps 46:9 Ps 76:6 Ezk 39:20 Nah 2:2-4 Nah 2:13-4 Hg 2:22 |
38 | A drought is on her waters, and they shall be dried up; for it is a land of engraved images, and they are mad over idols. | Jer 50:12 Jer 51:32-36 Isa 44:27 Rev 16:12 Rev 17:15 Rev 17:16 |
39 | Therefore the wild animals of the desert with the wolves shall dwell there, and the ostriches shall dwell therein: and it shall be no more inhabited forever; neither shall it be lived in from generation to generation. | Jer 50:12 Jer 50:13 Jer 25:12 Jer 51:26 Jer 51:37 Jer 51:38 Jer 51:43 Jer 51:62-64 Isa 13:20-22 Isa 14:23 Isa 34:11-17 Rev 18:2 Rev 18:21-24 |
40 | As when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbor cities of it, says Yahweh, so shall no man dwell there, neither shall any son of man sojourn therein. | Jer 49:18 Jer 51:26 Gn 19:24 Gn 19:25 Dt 29:23 Isa 1:9 Isa 13:19 Isa 13:20 Hos 11:8 Hos 11:9 Am 4:11 Zep 2:9 Lk 17:28-30 2Pe 2:6 Jud 1:7 Rev 11:8 Rev 18:8 Rev 18:9 |
41 | Behold, a people comes from the north; and a great nation and many kings shall be stirred up from the uttermost parts of the earth. | Jer 50:2 Jer 50:3 Jer 50:9 Jer 6:22 Jer 6:23 Jer 25:14 Jer 51:1 Jer 51:2 Jer 51:11 Jer 51:27 Jer 51:28 Isa 13:2-5 Isa 13:17-5 Isa 13:18-5 Rev 17:16 |
42 | They lay hold on bow and spear; they are cruel, and have no mercy; their voice roars like the sea; and they ride on horses, everyone set in array, as a man to the battle, against you, daughter of Babylon. | Jer 6:22 Jer 6:23 |
43 | The king of Babylon has heard the news of them, and his hands wax feeble: anguish has taken hold of him, [and] pangs as of a woman in travail. | Jer 51:31 Isa 13:6-8 Isa 21:3 Isa 21:4 Dn 5:5 Dn 5:6 |
44 | Behold, [the enemy] shall come up like a lion from the pride of the Jordan against the strong habitation: for I will suddenly make them run away from it; and whoever is chosen, him will I appoint over it: for who is like me? and who will appoint me a time? and who is the shepherd who can stand before me? | Jer 25:38 Jer 49:19-21 |
45 | Therefore hear the counsel of Yahweh, that he has taken against Babylon; and his purposes, that he has purposed against the land of the Chaldeans: Surely they shall drag them away, [even] the little ones of the flock; surely he shall make their habitation desolate over them. | Jer 51:10 Jer 51:11 Ps 33:10 Ps 33:11 Isa 14:24-27 Isa 46:10 Isa 46:11 Ac 4:28 Eph 1:11 Rev 17:16 Rev 17:17 |
46 | At the noise of the taking of Babylon the earth trembles, and the cry is heard among the nations. | Jer 49:21 Isa 14:9 Isa 14:10 Ezk 26:18 Ezk 31:16 Ezk 32:10 Rev 18:9-19 |