| 1 | Thus says Yahweh: Behold, I will raise up against Babylon, and against those who dwell in Leb-kamai, a destroying wind. | Jer 50:9 Jer 50:14-16 Jer 50:21-16 Isa 13:3-5 Am 3:6 |
| 2 | I will send to Babylon strangers, who shall winnow her; and they shall empty her land: for in the day of trouble they shall be against her round about. | Jer 15:7 Isa 41:16 Ezk 5:12 Mt 3:12 |
| 3 | Against [him who] bends let the archer bend his bow, and against [him who] lifts himself up in his coat of mail: and don`t you spare her young men; destroy you utterly all her host. | Jer 50:14 Jer 50:41 Jer 50:42 |
| 4 | They shall fall down slain in the land of the Chaldeans, and thrust through in her streets. | Jer 49:26 Jer 50:30 Jer 50:37 Isa 13:15 Isa 14:19 |
| 5 | For Israel is not forsaken, nor Judah, of his God, of Yahweh of Hosts; though their land is full of guilt against the Holy One of Israel. | Jer 33:24-26 Jer 46:28 Jer 50:4 Jer 50:5 Jer 50:20 1Sa 12:22 1Ki 6:13 Ezr 9:9 Ps 94:14 Isa 44:21 Isa 49:14 Isa 49:15 Isa 54:3-11 Isa 62:12 Hos 1:10 Am 9:8 Am 9:9 Ro 11:1 Ro 11:2 |
| 6 | Flee out of the midst of Babylon, and save every man his life; don`t be cut off in her iniquity: for it is the time of Yahweh`s vengeance; he will render to her a recompense. | Jer 51:9 Jer 51:45 Jer 51:50 Jer 50:8 Jer 50:28 Isa 48:20 Zc 2:6 Zc 2:7 Rev 18:4 |
| 7 | Babylon has been a golden cup in Yahweh`s hand, who made all the earth drunken: the nations have drunk of her wine; therefore the nations are mad. | Isa 14:4 Dn 2:32 Dn 2:38 Rev 17:4 |
| 8 | Babylon is suddenly fallen and destroyed: wail for her; take balm for her pain, if so be she may be healed. | Jer 51:41 Jer 50:2 Isa 21:9 Isa 47:9 Rev 14:8 Rev 18:2 Rev 18:8 |
| 9 | We would have healed Babylon, but she is not healed: forsake her, and let us go everyone into his own country; for her judgment reaches to heaven, and is lifted up even to the skies. | Jer 8:20 Jer 46:16 Jer 46:21 Jer 50:16 Isa 13:14 Isa 47:15 Mt 25:10-13 |
| 10 | Yahweh has brought forth our righteousness: come, and let us declare in Zion the work of Yahweh our God. | Ps 37:6 Mic 7:9 Mic 7:10 |
| 11 | Make sharp the arrows; hold firm the shields: Yahweh has stirred up the spirit of the kings of the Medes; because his purpose is against Babylon, to destroy it: for it is the vengeance of Yahweh, the vengeance of his temple. | Jer 46:4 Jer 46:9 Jer 50:9 Jer 50:14 Jer 50:25 Jer 50:28 Jer 50:29 Isa 21:5 |
| 12 | Set up a standard against the walls of Babylon, make the watch strong, set the watchmen, prepare the ambushes; for Yahweh has both purposed and done that which he spoke concerning the inhabitants of Babylon. | Jer 46:3-5 Pr 21:30 Isa 8:9 Isa 8:10 Isa 13:2 Jl 3:2 Jl 3:9-14 Nah 2:1 Nah 3:14 Nah 3:15 |
| 13 | You who dwell on many waters, abundant in treasures, your end is come, the measure of your covetousness. | Jer 51:36 Rev 17:1 Rev 17:15 |
| 14 | Yahweh of Hosts has sworn by himself, [saying], Surely I will fill you with men, as with the canker-worm; and they shall lift up a shout against you. | Jer 49:13 Am 6:8 Heb 6:13 |
| 15 | He has made the earth by his power, he has established the world by his wisdom, and by his understanding has he stretched out the heavens: | Jer 10:12-16 Jer 32:17 Gn 1:1-6 Ps 107:25 Ps 146:5 Ps 146:6 Ps 148:1-5 Isa 40:26 Ac 14:15 Ac 17:24 Ro 1:20 Col 1:16 Col 1:17 Heb 1:2 Heb 1:3 Rev 4:11 |
| 16 | when he utters his voice, there is a tumult of waters in the heavens, and he causes the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth; he makes lightnings for the rain, and brings forth the wind out of his treasuries. | Jer 10:12 Jer 10:13 Jb 37:2-11 Jb 40:9 Ps 18:13 Ps 29:3-10 Ps 46:6 Ps 68:33 Ps 104:7 Ezk 10:5 |
| 17 | Every man is become brutish [and is] without knowledge; every goldsmith is put to shame by his image; for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them. | Jer 10:14 Ps 14:2 Ps 53:1 Ps 53:2 Ps 92:5 Ps 92:6 Ps 115:5 Ps 115:8 Ps 135:18 Isa 44:18-20 Ro 1:20-23 1Co 1:19-21 |
| 18 | They are vanity, a work of delusion: in the time of their visitation they shall perish. | Jer 10:8 Jer 10:15 Jon 2:8 Ac 14:15 |
| 19 | The portion of Jacob is not like these; for he is the former of all things; and [Israel] is the tribe of his inheritance: Yahweh of Hosts is his name. | Jer 10:16 Ps 16:5 Ps 73:26 Ps 115:3 Lam 3:24 |
| 20 | You are my battle-ax and weapons of war: and with you will I break in pieces the nations; and with you will I destroy kingdoms; | Jer 50:23 Isa 10:5 Isa 10:15 Isa 13:5 Isa 14:5 Isa 14:6 Isa 37:26 Isa 41:15 Isa 41:16 Mic 4:13 Zc 9:13 Zc 9:14 Mt 22:7 |
| 21 | and with you will I break in pieces the horse and his rider; | Jer 50:37 Ex 15:1 Ex 15:21 Ps 46:9 Ps 76:6 Ezk 39:20 Mic 5:10 Nah 2:13 Hg 2:22 Zc 10:5 Zc 12:4 Rev 19:18 |
| 22 | and with you will I break in pieces the chariot and him who rides therein; and with you will I break in pieces man and woman; and with you will I break in pieces the old man and the youth; and with you will I break in pieces the young man and the virgin; | Jer 6:11 Dt 32:25 1Sa 15:3 2Ch 36:17 Isa 20:4 Lam 2:11 Ezk 9:6 |
| 23 | and with you will I break in pieces the shepherd and his flock; and with you will I break in pieces the farmer and his yoke [of oxen]; and with you will I break in pieces governors and deputies. |
| 24 | I will render to Babylon and to all the inhabitants of Chaldea all their evil that they have done in Zion in your sight, says Yahweh. | Jer 51:11 Jer 51:35 Jer 51:49 Jer 50:15 Jer 50:17 Jer 50:18 Jer 50:28 Jer 50:29 Jer 50:33 Jer 50:34 Ps 137:8 Ps 137:9 Isa 47:6-9 Isa 51:22 Isa 51:23 Isa 61:2 Isa 63:1-4 Isa 66:6 1Th 2:15 1Th 2:16 Rev 6:10 Rev 18:20 Rev 18:24 Rev 19:2-4 |
| 25 | Behold, I am against you, destroying mountain, says Yahweh, which destroy all the earth; and I will stretch out my hand on you, and roll you down from the rocks, and will make you a burnt mountain. | Jer 50:31 |
| 26 | They shall not take of you a stone for a corner, nor a stone for foundations; but you shall be desolate for ever, says Yahweh. | Jer 51:37 Jer 51:43 Jer 50:12 Jer 50:13 Isa 13:19-22 Isa 14:23 |
| 27 | Set you up a standard in the land, blow the trumpet among the nations, prepare the nations against her, call together against her the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz: appoint a marshal against her; cause the horses to come up as the rough canker-worm. | Jer 51:12 Jer 6:1 Jer 50:2 Jer 50:41 Isa 13:2-5 Isa 18:3 Am 3:6 Zc 14:2 |
| 28 | Prepare against her the nations, the kings of the Medes, the governors of it, and all the deputies of it, and all the land of their dominion. | Jer 51:11 Jer 25:25 Gn 10:2 1Ch 1:5 |
| 29 | The land trembles and is in pain; for the purposes of Yahweh against Babylon do stand, to make the land of Babylon a desolation, without inhabitant. | Jer 8:16 Jer 10:10 Jer 50:36 Jer 50:43 Isa 13:13 Isa 13:14 Isa 14:16 Jl 2:10 Am 8:8 |
| 30 | The mighty men of Babylon have forborne to fight, they remain in their strongholds; their might has failed; they are become as women: her dwelling-places are set on fire; her bars are broken. | Jer 51:32 Jer 51:57 Jer 48:41 Jer 50:36 Jer 50:37 Ps 76:5 Isa 13:7 Isa 13:8 Isa 19:16 Nah 3:13 Rev 18:10 |
| 31 | One post shall run to meet another, and one messenger to met another, to show the king of Babylon that his city is taken on every quarter: | Jer 4:20 Jer 50:24 1Sa 4:12-18 2Sa 18:19-31 2Ch 30:6 Es 3:13-15 Es 8:10 Es 8:14 Jb 9:25 |
| 32 | and the passages are seized, and the reeds they have burned with fire, and the men of war are frightened. | Jer 50:38 Isa 44:27 |
| 33 | For thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel: The daughter of Babylon is like a threshing floor at the time when it is trodden; yet a little while, and the time of harvest shall come for her. | Isa 21:10 Isa 41:15 Isa 41:16 Am 1:3 Mic 4:13 Hab 3:12 |
| 34 | Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon has devoured me, he has crushed me, he has made me an empty vessel, he has, like a monster, swallowed me up, he has filled his maw with my delicacies; he has cast me out. | Jer 51:49 Jer 39:1-8 Jer 50:7 Jer 50:17 Lam 1:1 Lam 1:14 Lam 1:15 |
| 35 | The violence done to me and to my flesh be on Babylon, shall the inhabitant of Zion say; and, My blood be on the inhabitants of Chaldea, shall Jerusalem say. | Jer 50:29 Jg 9:20 Jg 9:24 Jg 9:56 Jg 9:57 Ps 9:12 Ps 12:5 Ps 137:8 Ps 137:9 Isa 26:20 Isa 26:21 Zc 1:15 Mt 7:2 Jm 2:13 Rev 6:10 Rev 16:6 Rev 18:6 Rev 18:20 |
| 36 | Therefore thus says Yahweh: Behold, I will plead your cause, and take vengeance for you; and I will dry up her sea, and make her fountain dry. | Jer 50:33 Jer 50:34 Ps 140:12 Pr 22:23 Pr 23:11 Isa 43:14 Isa 47:6-9 Isa 49:25 Isa 49:26 Mic 7:8-10 Hab 2:8-17 |
| 37 | Babylon shall become heaps, a dwelling-place for jackals, an astonishment, and a hissing, without inhabitant. | Jer 51:25 Jer 51:26 Jer 51:29 Jer 25:9 Jer 25:12 Jer 25:18 Jer 50:12 Jer 50:13 Jer 50:23-26 Jer 50:38-40 Isa 13:19-22 Isa 14:23 Isa 34:8-17 Rev 18:2 Rev 18:21-23 |
| 38 | They shall roar together like young lions; they shall growl as lions` whelps. | Jer 2:15 Jb 4:10 Jb 4:11 Ps 34:10 Ps 58:6 Isa 35:9 Nah 2:11-13 Zc 11:3 |
| 39 | When they are heated, I will make their feast, and I will make them drunken, that they may rejoice, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, says Yahweh. | Jer 25:27 Isa 21:4 Isa 21:5 Isa 22:12-14 Dn 5:1-4 Dn 5:30-4 Nah 1:10 Nah 3:11 |
| 40 | I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with male goats. | Jer 50:27 Ps 37:20 Ps 44:22 Isa 34:6 Ezk 39:18 |
| 41 | How is Sheshach taken! and the praise of the whole earth seized! how is Babylon become a desolation among the nations! | Jer 25:26 Dn 5:1-3 |
| 42 | The sea is come up on Babylon; she is covered with the multitude of the waves of it. | Ps 18:4 Ps 18:16 Ps 42:7 Ps 65:7 Ps 93:3 Isa 8:7 Isa 8:8 Ezk 27:26-34 Dn 9:26 Lk 21:25 Rev 17:15 Rev 17:16 |
| 43 | Her cities are become a desolation, a dry land, and a desert, a land in which no man dwells, neither does any son of man pass thereby. | Jer 51:29 Jer 51:37 Jer 50:39 Jer 50:40 |
| 44 | I will execute judgment on Bel in Babylon, and I will bring forth out of his mouth that which he has swallowed up; and the nations shall not flow any more to him: yes, the wall of Babylon shall fall. | Jer 51:18 Jer 51:47 Jer 50:2 Isa 46:1 Isa 46:2 |
| 45 | My people, go you out of the midst of her, and save yourselves every man from the fierce anger of Yahweh. | Jer 51:6 Jer 51:9 Jer 51:50 Jer 50:8 Isa 48:20 Zc 2:7 Rev 14:8-11 Rev 18:4 |
| 46 | Don`t let your heart faint, neither fear you for the news that shall be heard in the land; for news shall come one year, and after that in another year [shall come] news, and violence in the land, ruler against ruler. | 2Ki 19:7 Mt 24:6-8 Mk 13:7 Mk 13:8 Lk 21:9-19 Lk 21:28-19 |
| 47 | Therefore, behold, the days come, that I will execute judgment on the engraved images of Babylon; and her whole land shall be confounded; and all her slain shall fall in the midst of her. | Jer 51:52 Jer 50:2 Isa 21:9 Isa 46:1 Isa 46:2 |
| 48 | Then the heavens and the earth, and all that is therein, shall sing for joy over Babylon; for the destroyers shall come to her from the north, says Yahweh. | Jer 51:10 Ps 58:10 Ps 58:11 Pr 11:10 Isa 44:23 Isa 48:20 Isa 49:13 Rev 15:1-4 Rev 16:4-7 Rev 18:20 Rev 19:1-7 |
| 49 | As Babylon has caused the slain of Israel to fall, so at Babylon shall fall the slain of all the land. | Jer 51:10 Jer 51:11 Jer 51:24 Jer 51:35 Jer 50:11 Jer 50:17 Jer 50:18 Jer 50:29 Jer 50:33 Jer 50:34 Jg 1:7 Ps 137:8 Ps 137:9 Mt 7:2 Jm 2:13 Rev 18:5 Rev 18:6 |
| 50 | You who have escaped the sword, go you, don`t stand still; remember Yahweh from afar, and let Jerusalem come into your mind. | Jer 51:6 Jer 51:45 Jer 31:21 Jer 44:28 Jer 50:8 Isa 48:20 Isa 51:11 Isa 52:2 Isa 52:11 Isa 52:12 Zc 2:7-9 Rev 18:4 |
| 51 | We are confounded, because we have heard reproach; confusion has covered our faces: for strangers are come into the sanctuaries of Yahweh`s house. | Jer 3:22-25 Jer 31:19 Ps 74:18-21 Ps 79:4 Ps 79:12 Ps 123:3 Ps 123:4 Ps 137:1-3 Lam 2:15-17 Lam 5:1 Ezk 36:30 |
| 52 | Therefore, behold, the days come, says Yahweh, that I will execute judgment on her engraved images; and through all her land the wounded shall groan. | Jer 51:47 Jer 50:38 |
| 53 | Though Babylon should mount up to the sky, and though she should fortify the height of her strength, yet from me shall destroyers come to her, says Yahweh. | Jer 51:25 Jer 51:58 Jer 49:16 Gn 11:4 Ps 139:8-10 Isa 14:12-15 Isa 47:5 Isa 47:7 Ezk 31:9-11 Dn 4:30 Am 9:4 Ob 1:3 Ob 1:4 |
| 54 | The sound of a cry from Babylon, and of great destruction from the land of the Chaldeans! | Jer 48:3-5 Jer 50:22 Jer 50:27 Jer 50:43 Jer 50:46 Isa 13:6-9 Isa 15:5 Zep 1:10 Rev 18:17-19 |
| 55 | For Yahweh lays Babylon waste, and destroys out of her the great voice; and their waves roar like many waters; the noise of their voice is uttered: | Jer 51:38 Jer 51:39 Jer 25:10 Jer 50:10-15 Isa 15:1 Isa 24:8-11 Isa 47:5 Rev 18:22 Rev 18:23 |
| 56 | for the destroyer is come on her, even on Babylon, and her mighty men are taken, their bows are broken in pieces; for Yahweh is a God of recompenses, he will surely requite. | Jer 51:48 Jer 50:10 Isa 21:2 Hab 2:8 Rev 17:16 |
| 57 | I will make drunk her princes and her wise men, her governors and her deputies, and her mighty men; and they shall sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake up, says the King, whose name is Yahweh of Hosts. | Jer 51:39 Jer 25:27 Isa 21:4 Isa 21:5 Dn 5:1-4 Dn 5:30-4 Dn 5:31-4 Nah 1:10 Hab 2:15-17 Rev 18:6 Rev 18:7 Rev 18:9 |
| 58 | Thus says Yahweh of hosts: The broad walls of Babylon shall be utterly overthrown, and her high gates shall be burned with fire; and the peoples shall labor for vanity, and the nations for the fire; and they shall be weary. | Jer 51:44 Jer 50:15 |
| 59 | The word which Jeremiah the prophet commanded Seraiah the son of Neriah, the son of Mahseiah, when he went with Zedekiah the king of Judah to Babylon in the fourth year of his reign. Now Seraiah was chief chamberlain. | Jer 32:12 Jer 36:4 Jer 45:1 |
| 60 | Jeremiah wrote in a book all the evil that should come on Babylon, even all these words that are written concerning Babylon. | Jer 30:2 Jer 30:3 Jer 36:2-4 Jer 36:32-4 Isa 8:1-4 Isa 30:8 Dn 12:4 Hab 2:2 Hab 2:3 Rev 1:11 Rev 1:19 |
| 61 | Jeremiah said to Seraiah, When you come to Babylon, then see that you read all these words, | Mt 24:1 Mk 13:1 |
| 62 | and say, Yahweh, you have spoken concerning this place, to cut it off, that none shall dwell therein, neither man nor animal, but that it shall be desolate forever. | Jer 51:25 Jer 51:26 Jer 51:29 Jer 51:37 Jer 50:3 Jer 50:13 Jer 50:39 Jer 50:40 Isa 13:19-22 Isa 14:22 Isa 14:23 Rev 18:20-23 |
| 63 | It shall be, when you have made an end of reading this book, that you shall bind a stone to it, and cast it into the midst of the Euphrates: | Jer 19:10 Jer 19:11 Rev 18:21 |
| 64 | and you shall say, Thus shall Babylon sink, and shall not rise again because of the evil that I will bring on her; and they shall be weary. Thus far are the words of Jeremiah. | Jer 51:42 Jer 25:27 Nah 1:8 Nah 1:9 Rev 14:8 Rev 18:2 Rev 18:21 |
