These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
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Jeremiah 51
Tanakh 64 verses
- 1 Thus saith : Behold, I will raise up against , And against them that dwell in Leb-kamai, a destroying wind.
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And I will send unto strangers, that shall fan her, And they shall empty her land; For in the day of trouble they shall be against her round about.
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- 3 Let the archer bend his bow against her, And let him lift himself up against her in his coat of mail; And spare ye not her young men, Destroy ye utterly all her host.
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And they shall fall down slain in the land of the Chaldeans, And thrust through in her streets.
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For is not widowed, nor , Of his , of of hosts; For their land is full of guilt Against the Holy One of .
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Hosea 4:1 Jeremiah 33:24-26 Jeremiah 23:15 Isaiah 54:3-11 Jeremiah 31:37 Micah 7:18 Jeremiah 46:28 Amos 9:8-9 Ezra 9:9 Zechariah 12:6 Isaiah 49:14-15 Jeremiah 19:4 Jeremiah 16:18 2 Kings 21:16 Hosea 1:10 Jeremiah 50:20 Zephaniah 3:1-4 1 Kings 6:13 Ezekiel 22:24-31 Jeremiah 50:4-5 Zechariah 2:12 Ezekiel 9:9 1 Samuel 12:22 Isaiah 44:21 Zechariah 12:8 Isaiah 62:12 Psalm 94:14 Micah 7:20 Ezekiel 8:17 Romans 11:1-2 -
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Flee out of the midst of , And every man his life, Be not cut off in her iniquity; For it is the time of Yahweh’S vengeance; He will render unto her a recompense.
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Jeremiah 50:8 Jeremiah 50:15 Jeremiah 50:28 Numbers 16:26 Jeremiah 25:14 Jeremiah 51:45 1 Timothy 5:22 Genesis 19:15-17 Jeremiah 46:10 Deuteronomy 32:41 Isaiah 48:20 Jeremiah 50:31 Jeremiah 51:9 Revelation 18:4-6 Proverbs 13:20 Jeremiah 51:11 Jeremiah 27:7 Revelation 16:19 Deuteronomy 32:43 Jeremiah 51:50 Deuteronomy 32:25 Zechariah 2:6-7 Jeremiah 25:16 - 7 hath been a golden cup in LORD’S hand, That made all the earth drunken; The nations have drunk of her wine, Therefore the nations are mad.
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is suddenly fallen and destroyed, Wail for her; Take balm for her pain, If so be she may be healed.
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- 9 We would have healed , but she is not healed; Forsake her, and let us go every one into his own country; For her judgment reacheth unto , And is lifted up even to the skies.
- 10 The hath brought forth our victory; Come, and let us declare in The work of our .
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Make bright the arrows, Fill the quivers, The hath roused the of the kings of the Medes; Because His device is against , to destroy it; For it is the vengeance of , The vengeance of His .
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Jeremiah 46:4 Jeremiah 50:45 Jeremiah 50:9 Jeremiah 46:9 1 Chronicles 5:26 Isaiah 10:26 Zechariah 12:2-3 Isaiah 45:5 Zechariah 14:2 Isaiah 13:17-18 Jeremiah 50:25 Jeremiah 51:35 Revelation 17:16-17 Isaiah 46:11 1 Kings 11:23 2 Chronicles 36:22 Jeremiah 51:27-29 Habakkuk 2:17-20 Isaiah 41:25 Psalm 83:3-9 Zechariah 14:12 Jeremiah 51:12 Psalm 74:3-11 Isaiah 21:5 Jeremiah 50:14-15 1 Kings 11:14 Jeremiah 50:28-29 Jeremiah 51:24 Isaiah 21:2 Isaiah 45:1 Ezra 1:1 - 12 Set up a standard against the walls of , Make the watch strong, Set the watchmen, prepare the ambushes; For hath both devised and done That which He spoke concerning the inhabitants of .
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O thou that dwellest upon many waters, Abundant in treasures, Thine end is come, The measure of thy covetousness.
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Revelation 17:1 Isaiah 45:3 Revelation 17:15 Jeremiah 51:36 Daniel 5:26 Jeremiah 50:31 2 Peter 2:14-15 Jeremiah 17:11 Jeremiah 50:27 1 Peter 4:7 Luke 12:19-21 Jude 1:11-13 Genesis 6:13 Jeremiah 50:37 2 Peter 2:3 Amos 8:2 Ezekiel 7:2-12 Revelation 18:11-17 Habakkuk 2:5-11 Revelation 18:19 Lamentations 4:18 -
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The of hosts hath sworn by Himself: Surely I will fill thee with men, as with the canker-worm, And they shall lift up a shout against thee.
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He that hath made the earth by His power, That hath established the world by His wisdom, And hath stretched out the by His discernment;
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Jeremiah 10:12-16 Romans 1:20 Job 9:8 Psalm 104:2 Jeremiah 32:17 Revelation 4:11 Acts 14:15 Psalm 146:5-6 Psalm 104:24 Isaiah 51:13 Genesis 1:1-6 Psalm 148:1-5 Isaiah 45:12 Isaiah 44:24 Colossians 1:16-17 Hebrews 1:2-3 Isaiah 40:22 Acts 17:24 Psalm 136:5 Psalm 107:25 Isaiah 48:13 Jeremiah 51:15-19 Proverbs 3:19 Isaiah 42:5 Isaiah 40:26 Romans 11:33 -
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At the sound of His giving a multitude of waters in the , He causeth the vapours to ascend from the ends of the earth; He maketh lightnings at the time of the rain, And bringeth forth the wind out of His treasuries;
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- 17 Every man is proved to be brutish, for the knowledge—Every goldsmith is put to shame by the graven image—That his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.
- 18 They are vanity, a work of delusion; In the time of their visitation they shall perish,
- 19 The portion of is not like these; For He is the former of all things, And [] is the tribe of His inheritance; The of hosts is His .
- 20 Thou art My maul and weapons of war, And with thee will I shatter the nations, And with thee will I destroy kingdoms;
- 21 And with thee will I shatter the horse and his rider, And with thee will I shatter the chariot and him that rideth therein;
- 22 And with thee will I shatter man and woman, And with thee will I shatter the old man and the youth, And with thee will I shatter the young man and the maid;
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And with thee will I shatter the shepherd and his flock, And with thee will I shatter the husbandman and his yoke of oxen, And with thee will I shatter governors and deputies.
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And I will render unto and to all the inhabitants of Chaldea All their evil that they have done in , in your sight; Saith .
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- 25 Behold, I am against thee, O destroying mountain, saith , Which destroyest all the earth; And I will stretch out My hand upon thee, And roll thee down from the rocks, And will make thee a burnt mountain.
- 26 And they shall not take of thee a stone for a corner, Nor a stone for foundations; But thou shalt be desolate for ever, saith .
- 27 Set ye up a standard in the land, Blow the horn 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.
- 28 Prepare against her the nations, the kings of the Medes, The governors thereof, and all the deputies thereof, And all the land of his dominion.
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And the land quaketh and is in pain; For the purposes of are performed against , To make the land of a desolation, without inhabitant.
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Jeremiah 51:43 Jeremiah 8:16 Jeremiah 50:13 Amos 8:8 Jeremiah 51:11-12 Jeremiah 50:45 Jeremiah 10:10 Isaiah 13:19-20 Jeremiah 50:36 Isaiah 47:1-15 Isaiah 14:16 Revelation 18:21-24 Isaiah 14:23-24 Jeremiah 50:39-40 Isaiah 13:13-14 Joel 2:10 Jeremiah 51:62-64 Revelation 18:2 Jeremiah 50:43 Isaiah 46:10-11 - 30 The mighty men of have forborne to fight, They remain in their strongholds; Their might hath failed, they are become as women; Her dwelling-places are set on fire; Her bars are broken.
- 31 One post runneth to meet another, And one messenger to meet an other, To tell the of That his city is taken on every quarter;
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And the fords are seized, And the castles they have burned with fire, And the men of war are affrighted.
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- 33 For thus saith of hosts, the of : The daughter of 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.
- 34 Nebuchadrezzar the of hath devoured me, He hath crushed me, He hath set me down as an empty vessel, He hath swallowed me up like a dragon, He hath filled his maw with my delicacies; He hath washed me .
- 35 The violence done to me and to my be upon Babylon’, Shall the inhabitant of say; And: ‘My be upon the inhabitants of Chaldea’, Shall say.
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Therefore thus saith : Behold, I will plead thy cause, And take vengeance for thee; And I will dry up her sea, And make her fountain dry.
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Romans 12:19 Jeremiah 50:38 Psalm 140:12 Deuteronomy 32:35 Hebrews 10:30-31 Isaiah 44:27 Deuteronomy 32:43 Jeremiah 50:33-34 Revelation 19:1-3 Isaiah 47:6-9 Jeremiah 51:6 Proverbs 22:23 Isaiah 49:25-26 Revelation 16:12 Isaiah 43:14 Micah 7:8-10 Proverbs 23:11 Habakkuk 2:8-17 Psalm 107:33 Psalm 94:1-3 -
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And shall become heaps, A dwelling-place for jackals, An astonishment, and a hissing, Without inhabitant.
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Revelation 18:2 Jeremiah 18:16 Jeremiah 25:9 Jeremiah 50:38-40 Jeremiah 51:29 Isaiah 14:23 Zephaniah 2:15 Revelation 18:21-23 Jeremiah 29:18 Jeremiah 50:12-13 Jeremiah 19:8 Jeremiah 25:18 Jeremiah 50:23-26 Isaiah 34:8-17 Jeremiah 25:12 Micah 6:16 2 Chronicles 29:8 Lamentations 2:15-16 Jeremiah 51:25-26 Isaiah 13:19-22 -
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They shall roar together like young lions; They shall growl as lions’ whelps.
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- 39 With their poison I will prepare their feast, And I will make them drunken, that they may be convulsed, And sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, Saith .
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I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, Like rams with he-goats.
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- 41 How is Sheshach taken! And the of the whole earth seized! How is become an astonishment Among the nations!
- 42 The sea is come up upon ; She is covered with the multitude of the waves thereof.
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Her cities are become a desolation, A dry land, and a desert, A land wherein no man dwelleth, Neither doth any son of man pass thereby.
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And I will punish Bel in , And I will bring forth out of his mouth that which he hath swallowed up, And the nations shall not flow any more unto him; Yea, the wall of shall fall.
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- 45 My people, go ye out of the midst of her, And yourselves every man From the fierce anger of .
- 46 And let not your faint, neither ye, For the rumour that shall be heard in the land; For a rumour shall come one year, And after that in another year a rumour, And violence in the land, ruler against ruler.
- 47 Therefore behold, the days come, That I will do judgment upon the graven images of , And her whole land shall be ashamed; And all her slain shall fall in the midst of her.
- 48 Then the and the earth, and all that is therein, Shall sing for joy over ; For the spoilers shall come unto her From the north, saith .
- 49 As hath caused the slain of to fall, So at shall fall the slain of all the land.
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Ye that have escaped the sword, Go ye, stand not still; Remember from afar, And let come into your mind.
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Jeremiah 44:28 Deuteronomy 4:29-31 Revelation 18:4 Jeremiah 51:45 Jeremiah 50:8 Ezra 1:3-5 Psalm 122:6 Daniel 9:2-3 Nehemiah 2:3-5 Isaiah 51:11 Isaiah 48:20 Psalm 137:5-6 Jeremiah 29:12-14 Jeremiah 51:6 Psalm 102:13-14 Isaiah 52:11-12 Daniel 9:16-19 Deuteronomy 30:1-4 Jeremiah 31:21 Nehemiah 1:2-4 Isaiah 52:2 Zechariah 2:7-9 -
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We are ashamed, because we have heard reproach, Confusion hath covered our faces; For strangers are come Into the sanctuaries of Yahweh’S house.’
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Lamentations 1:10 Psalm 74:3-7 Psalm 44:13-16 Psalm 79:4 Psalm 109:29 Jeremiah 14:3 Psalm 69:7-13 Jeremiah 3:22-25 Daniel 8:11-14 Daniel 11:31 Revelation 11:1-2 Psalm 79:12 Lamentations 2:20 Ezekiel 36:30 Daniel 9:26-27 Ezekiel 7:18 Micah 7:10 Ezekiel 9:7 Psalm 71:13 Psalm 74:18-21 Lamentations 5:1 Ezekiel 24:21 Psalm 79:1 Jeremiah 52:13 Psalm 123:3-4 Psalm 137:1-3 Lamentations 2:15-17 Jeremiah 31:19 Ezekiel 7:21-22 -
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Wherefore, behold, the days come, saith , That I will do judgment upon her graven images; And through all her land the wounded shall groan.
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Though should mount up to , And though she should fortify the height of her strength, Yet from Me shall spoilers come unto her, saith .
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Jeremiah 49:16 Genesis 11:4 Psalm 139:8-10 Jeremiah 51:25 Isaiah 10:6-7 Isaiah 47:5 Jeremiah 51:58 Obadiah 1:3-4 Isaiah 47:7 Jeremiah 51:48 Daniel 4:30 Jeremiah 50:45 Isaiah 13:17 Jeremiah 50:21 Jeremiah 50:25 Isaiah 14:12-15 Ezekiel 31:9-11 Isaiah 45:1-5 Jeremiah 50:31-34 Isaiah 41:25 Jeremiah 51:11 Jeremiah 51:1-4 Amos 9:4 Isaiah 13:2-5 Jeremiah 50:9-10 - 54 Hark! a cry from , And great destruction from the land of the Chaldeans!
- 55 For spoileth , And destroyeth out of her the great voice; And their waves roar like many waters, The noise of their voice is uttered;
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For the spoiler is come upon her, even upon , And her mighty men are taken, Their bows are shattered; For is a of recompenses, He will surely requite.
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Psalm 46:9 Habakkuk 2:8 Jeremiah 51:6 Jeremiah 51:48 Psalm 94:1-2 Deuteronomy 32:35 Psalm 76:3 Isaiah 59:18 Jeremiah 51:24 Jeremiah 50:28-29 Jeremiah 50:36 Psalm 37:15 Jeremiah 50:10 1 Samuel 2:4 Ezekiel 39:3 Isaiah 34:8 Jeremiah 49:35 2 Thessalonians 1:6 Jeremiah 51:30 Psalm 137:8 Revelation 19:2 Genesis 49:24 Revelation 18:20 Ezekiel 39:9 Revelation 17:16 Revelation 18:5-6 Isaiah 35:4 Isaiah 21:2 - 57 And 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, Saith the King, whose is of hosts.
- 58 Thus saith of hosts: The broad walls of shall be utterly overthrown, And her high gates shall be burned with fire; And the peoples shall labour for vanity, And the nations for the fire; And they shall be weary.
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The which the commanded Seraiah the son of Neriah, the son of Mahseiah, when he went with Zedekiah the of to in the fourth year of his reign. Now Seraiah was quartermaster.
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- 60 And wrote in one book all the evil that should come upon , even all these words that are written concerning .
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And said to Seraiah: ‘When thou comest to , then see that thou read all these words,
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- 62 and say: O , Thou hast spoken concerning this place, to cut it off, that none shall dwell therein, neither man nor beast, but that it shall be desolate for ever.
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And it shall be, when thou hast made an end of reading this book, that thou shalt bind a stone to it, and cast it into the midst of the ;
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- 64 and thou shalt say: Thus shall sink, and shall not rise again because of the evil that I will bring upon her; and they shall be weary.’ Thus far are the words of .