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Jeremiah Chapter 51

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JEREMIAH

Jeremiah 51

1Thus sayth the Lord, Beholde, I wil raise vp against Babel, and against the inhabitants that lift vp their heart against me, a destroying wind,
Jeremiah 4:11, Jeremiah 4:12, Hosea 13:15, Amos 3:6, Jeremiah 4:11
2And wil send vnto Babel fanners that shall fanne her, and shall empty her land: for in the day of trouble they shalbe against her on euery side.
Jeremiah 15:7, Matthew 3:12, Jeremiah 15:7, Matthew 3:12, Isaiah 41:16
3Also to the bender that bendeth his bowe, and to him that lifteth himselfe vp in his brigandine, will I say, Spare not her yong men, but destroy all her hoste.
Jeremiah 50:14, Jeremiah 50:14, Jeremiah 46:4, Jeremiah 46:4, Jeremiah 50:21
4Thus the slaine shall fall in the lande of the Caldeans, and they that are thrust through in her streetes.
Jeremiah 49:26, Jeremiah 49:26, Isaiah 13:15, Jeremiah 50:30, Isaiah 13:15
5For Israel hath bene no widowe, nor Iudah from his God, from the Lord of hostes, though their lande was filled with sinne against the holy one of Israel.
Romans 11:1, Romans 11:2, Romans 11:1, Romans 11:2, Zechariah 12:6
6Flee out of the middes of Babel, and deliuer euery man his soule: be not destroyed in her iniquitie: for this is the time of the Lordes vengeance he will render vnto her a recompence.
Jeremiah 50:8, Jeremiah 50:8, Jeremiah 50:15, Jeremiah 50:28, Jeremiah 50:15
7Babel hath bene as a golden cuppe in the Lordes hand, that made all the earth drunken: the nations haue drunken of her wine, therefore do the nations rage.
Revelation 14:8, Revelation 14:8, Revelation 17:4, Revelation 17:4, Revelation 17:2
8Babel is suddenly fallen, and destroyed: howle for her, bring balme for her sore, if she may be healed.
Isaiah 21:9, Jeremiah 46:11, Isaiah 21:9, Jeremiah 46:11, Revelation 14:8
9We would haue cured Babel, but she could not be healed: forsake her, and let vs go euery one into his owne countrey: for her iudgement is come vp vnto heauen, and is lifted vp to ye cloudes.
Jeremiah 50:16, Revelation 18:5, Jeremiah 50:16, Revelation 18:5, Isaiah 13:14
10The Lord hath brought forth our righteousnesse: come and let vs declare in Zion the worke of the Lord our God.
Jeremiah 50:28, Jeremiah 50:28, Psalms 37:6, Psalms 37:6, Isaiah 40:2
11Make bright the arrowes: gather the shieldes: the Lord hath raised vp the spirit of the King of the Medes: for his purpose is against Babel to destroy it, because it is the vengeance of the Lord, and the vengeance of his Temple.
Jeremiah 46:4, Jeremiah 46:4, Jeremiah 50:45, Jeremiah 50:45, Jeremiah 50:9
12Set vp the standart vpon the walles of Babel, make the watch strong: set vp the watchmen: prepare the skoutes: for the Lord hath both deuised, and done that which he spake against the inhabitantes of Babel.
Isaiah 13:2, Jeremiah 51:11, Isaiah 13:2, Jeremiah 51:11, Jeremiah 51:29
13O thou that dwellest vpon many waters, abundant in treasures, thine ende is come, euen the ende of thy couetousnes.
Revelation 17:1, Revelation 17:1, Isaiah 45:3, Revelation 17:15, Isaiah 45:3
14The Lord of hostes hath sworne by him selfe, saying, Surely I will fill thee with men, as with caterpillers, and they shall cry and shoute against thee.
Amos 6:8, Jeremiah 49:13, Joel 2:25, Jeremiah 50:15, Amos 6:8
15He hath made the earth by his power, and established the world by his wisedome, and hath stretched out the heauen by his discretion.
Jeremiah 10:12, Jeremiah 10:16, Jeremiah 10:12, Jeremiah 10:16, Revelation 4:11
16Hee giueth by his voyce the multitude of waters in the heauen, and he causeth the cloudes to ascend from the endes of the earth: he turneth lightnings to raine, and bringeth forth the winde out of his treasures.
Psalms 135:7, Psalms 135:7, Jonah 1:4, Psalms 18:13, Jonah 1:4
17Euery man is a beast by his owne knowledge: euery founder is confounded by the grauen image: for his melting is but falsehood, and there is no breath therein.
Jeremiah 10:14, Habakkuk 2:18, Habakkuk 2:19, Jeremiah 10:14, Habakkuk 2:18
18They are vanitie, and the worke of errours: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.
Zephaniah 2:11, Jeremiah 10:8, Exodus 12:12, Jeremiah 43:12, Jeremiah 43:13
19The portion of Iaakob is not like them: for he is the maker of all things, and Israel is the rodde of his inheritance: the Lord of hostes is his Name.
Psalms 73:26, Jeremiah 10:16, Psalms 73:26, Jeremiah 10:16, Psalms 33:12
20Thou art mine hammer, and weapons of warre: for with thee will I breake the nations, and with thee wil I destroy kingdomes,
Isaiah 41:15, Isaiah 41:16, Isaiah 41:15, Isaiah 41:16, Micah 4:13
21And by thee wil I breake horse and horseman, and by thee will I breake the charet and him that rideth therein.
Exodus 15:1, Exodus 15:1, Zechariah 10:5, Zechariah 10:5, Zechariah 12:4
22By thee also will I breake man and woman, and by thee wil I breake olde and yong, and by thee wil I breake the yong man and the mayde.
2 Chronicles 36:17, 2 Chronicles 36:17, Isaiah 13:18, Isaiah 13:18, Ezekiel 9:6
23I wil also breake by thee the shepheard and his flocke, and by thee will I breake the husband man and his yoke of oxen, and by thee will I breake the dukes and princes.
Jeremiah 51:57, Jeremiah 51:57
24And I will render vnto Babel, and to all the inhabitants of the Caldeans all their euil, that they haue done in Zion, euen in your sight, sayth the Lord.
Jeremiah 50:15, Jeremiah 50:15, Isaiah 63:1, Isaiah 63:4, Revelation 18:24
25Beholde, I come vnto thee, O destroying mountaine, sayth the Lord, which destroyest all the earth: and I will stretch out mine hand vpon thee, and rolle thee downe from the rockes, and wil make thee a burnt mountaine.
Revelation 8:8, Revelation 8:8, Zechariah 4:7, Zechariah 4:7, Jeremiah 50:31
26They shall not take of thee a stone for a corner, nor a stone for foundations, but thou shalt be destroyed for euer, sayth the Lord.
Isaiah 13:19, Isaiah 13:22, Isaiah 13:19, Isaiah 13:22, Jeremiah 51:43
27Set vp a standard in the lande: blowe the trumpets among the nations: prepare the nations against her: call vp the kingdomes of Ararat, Minni, and Ashchenaz against her: appoynt the prince against her: cause horses to come vp as the rough caterpillers.
Genesis 10:3, Genesis 10:3, Genesis 8:4, 1 Chronicles 1:6, Genesis 8:4
28Prepare against her the nations with the Kings of the Medes, the dukes thereof, and the princes thereof, and all the land of his dominion.
Jeremiah 51:11, Jeremiah 51:11, Daniel 6:8, Esther 1:3, Daniel 5:28
29And the land shall tremble and sorow: for the deuise of the Lord shalbe performed against Babel, to make the lande of Babel waste without an inhabitant.
Jeremiah 51:43, Jeremiah 51:11, Jeremiah 51:12, Jeremiah 8:16, Jeremiah 51:43
30The strong men of Babel haue ceased to fight: they haue remayned in their holdes: their strength hath fayled, and they were like women: they haue burnt her dwelling places, and her barres are broken.
Nahum 3:13, Nahum 3:13, Jeremiah 50:36, Jeremiah 50:37, Jeremiah 50:36
31A post shall runne to meete the post, and a messenger to meete the messenger, to shew the King of Babel, that his citie is taken on a side thereof,
2 Samuel 18:19, 2 Samuel 18:31, 2 Chronicles 30:6, 2 Samuel 18:19, 2 Samuel 18:31
32And that the passages are stopped, and the reedes burnt with fire, and the me of war troubled.
Jeremiah 51:30, Jeremiah 50:37, Jeremiah 50:38, Isaiah 44:27, Jeremiah 51:30
33For thus sayth the Lord of hosts the God of Israel, the daughter of Babel is like a threshing floore: the time of her threshing is come: yet a litle while, and the time of her haruest shall come.
Isaiah 21:10, Isaiah 21:10, Joel 3:13, Hosea 6:11, Joel 3:13
34Nebuchad-nezzar the King of Babel hath deuoured me, and destroyed me: he hath made me an emptie vessel: he swallowed mee vp like a dragon, and filled his belly with my delicates, and hath cast me out.
Jeremiah 50:17, Jeremiah 50:17, Jeremiah 51:44, Jeremiah 51:44, Job 20:15
35The spoyle of me, and that which was left of me, is brought vnto Babel, shall the inhabitant of Zion say: and my blood vnto the inhabitantes of Caldea, shall Ierusalem say.
Revelation 18:20, Jeremiah 50:29, Revelation 18:20, Jeremiah 50:29, Matthew 7:2
36Therefore thus sayth the Lord, Beholde, I will maintayne thy cause, and take vengeance for thee, and I will drie vp the sea, and drie vp her springes.
Romans 12:19, Romans 12:19, Psalms 140:12, Jeremiah 50:38, Psalms 140:12
37And Babel shall be as heapes, a dwelling place for dragons, an astonishment, and an hissing, without an inhabitant.
Revelation 18:2, Revelation 18:2, Jeremiah 18:16, Jeremiah 25:9, Revelation 18:21
38They shall rore together like lions, and yell as the lyons whelpes.
Jeremiah 2:15, Jeremiah 2:15, Psalms 58:6, Nahum 2:11, Nahum 2:13
39In their heate I will make them feastes, and I wil make them drunken, that they may reioyce, and sleepe a perpetual sleepe, and not wake, sayth the Lord.
Jeremiah 51:57, Jeremiah 51:57, Jeremiah 25:27, Jeremiah 25:27, Nahum 1:10
40I wil bring them downe like lambes to the slaughter, and like rams and goates.
Jeremiah 50:27, Jeremiah 50:27, Psalms 37:20, Isaiah 34:6, Psalms 44:22
41How is Sheshach taken! and howe is the glory of the whole earth taken! how is Babel become an astonishment among the nations!
Jeremiah 25:26, Jeremiah 25:26, Isaiah 13:19, Isaiah 13:19, Jeremiah 49:25
42The sea is come vp vpon Babel: he is couered with the multitude of the waues thereof.
Isaiah 8:7, Isaiah 8:8, Isaiah 8:7, Isaiah 8:8, Daniel 9:26
43Her cities are desolate: the land is dry and a wildernes, a land wherein no man dwelleth, neither doth the sonne of man passe thereby.
Isaiah 13:20, Jeremiah 2:6, Isaiah 13:20, Jeremiah 2:6, Jeremiah 51:29
44I wil also visite Bel in Babel, and I wil bring out of his mouth, that which he hath swallowed vp, and the nations shall runne no more vnto him, and the wall of Babel shall fall.
Jeremiah 51:34, Jeremiah 51:58, Jeremiah 51:34, Jeremiah 51:58, Jeremiah 50:2
45My people, go out of the middes of her, and deliuer yee euery man his soule from the fierce wrath of the Lord,
Revelation 18:4, Jeremiah 51:6, Isaiah 48:20, Revelation 18:4, Jeremiah 51:6
46Least your heart euen faynt, and ye feare the rumour, that shalbe heard in the land: the rumour shall come this yeere, and after that in the other yeere shall come a rumour, and crueltie in the land, and ruler against ruler.
2 Kings 19:7, Isaiah 13:3, Isaiah 13:5, Isaiah 19:2, 2 Kings 19:7
47Therefore beholde, the dayes come, that I will visite the images of Babel, and the whole land shalbe confounded, and all her slayne shall fall in the middes of her.
Jeremiah 50:2, Jeremiah 50:2, Jeremiah 51:52, Isaiah 46:1, Isaiah 46:2
48Then the heauen and the earth, and all that is therein, shall reioyce for Babel: for the destroyers shall come vnto her from the North, saith the Lord.
Revelation 18:20, Isaiah 44:23, Revelation 18:20, Isaiah 44:23, Jeremiah 50:3
49As Babel caused the slaine of Israel to fal, so by Babel the slaine of all the earth did fall.
Jeremiah 51:24, Jeremiah 50:29, Jeremiah 51:24, Jeremiah 50:29, Psalms 137:8
50Ye that haue escaped the sworde, goe away, stand not still: remember the Lord a farre of, and let Ierusalem come into your minde.
Jeremiah 44:28, Jeremiah 44:28, Psalms 122:6, Psalms 122:6, Revelation 18:4
51Wee are confounded because wee haue heard reproch: shame hath couered our faces, for straungers are come into the Sanctuaries of the Lordes House.
Lamentations 1:10, Lamentations 1:10, Psalms 44:13, Psalms 44:16, Psalms 79:4
52Wherefore behold, the dayes come, sayth the Lord, that I will visite her grauen images, and through all her land the wounded shall grone.
Jeremiah 51:47, Jeremiah 51:47, Jeremiah 50:38, Jeremiah 50:38, Ezekiel 30:24
53Though Babel should mount vp to heauen, and though shee should defend her strength on hye, yet from mee shall her destroyers come, sayth the Lord.
Genesis 11:4, Jeremiah 49:16, Genesis 11:4, Jeremiah 49:16, Jeremiah 51:25
54A sound of a cry commeth from Babel, and great destruction from the land of the Caldeans,
Jeremiah 50:22, Jeremiah 50:22, Jeremiah 48:3, Jeremiah 48:5, Jeremiah 50:46
55Because the Lord hath layde Babel waste and destroyed from her the great voyce, and her waues shall roare like great waters, and a sounde was made by their noyse:
Jeremiah 25:10, Jeremiah 25:10, Psalms 93:3, Psalms 93:4, Jeremiah 51:42
56Because the destroyer is come vpon her, euen vpon Babel, and her strong men are taken, their bowes are broken: for the Lord God that recompenceth, shall surely recompence.
Psalms 46:9, Jeremiah 51:6, Psalms 94:1, Psalms 94:2, Habakkuk 2:8
57And I will make drunke her princes, and her wise men, her dukes, and her nobles, and her strong men: and they shall sleepe a perpetuall sleepe, and not wake, sayth the King, whose Name is the Lord of hostes.
Jeremiah 46:18, Jeremiah 46:18, Jeremiah 48:15, Jeremiah 25:27, Jeremiah 48:15
58Thus saith the Lord of hostes, The thicke wall of Babel shalbe broken, and her hie gates shall be burnt with fire, and the people shall labour in vaine, and the folke in ye fire, for they shalbe weary.
Jeremiah 51:64, Habakkuk 2:13, Jeremiah 51:64, Habakkuk 2:13, Jeremiah 51:44
59The worde which Ieremiah the Prophet commanded Sheraiah the sonne of Neriiah, the sonne of Maaseiah, when he went with Zedekiah the King of Iudah into Babel, in the fourth yeere of his reigne: and this Sheraiah was a peaceable prince.
Jeremiah 32:12, Jeremiah 36:4, Jeremiah 32:12, Jeremiah 36:4, Jeremiah 28:1
60So Ieremiah wrote in a booke all the euill that should come vpon Babel: euen al these things, that are written against Babel.
Habakkuk 2:2, Habakkuk 2:3, Isaiah 30:8, Jeremiah 36:32, Jeremiah 30:2
61And Ieremiah sayd to Sheraiah, Whe thou commest vnto Babel, and shalt see, and shalt reade all these wordes,
Colossians 4:16, Mark 13:1, 1 Thessalonians 4:18, Revelation 1:3, Matthew 24:1
62Then shalt thou say, O Lord, thou hast spoken against this place, to destroy it, that none should remaine in it, neither man nor beast, but that it should be desolate for euer.
Jeremiah 50:3, Jeremiah 50:13, Jeremiah 50:3, Jeremiah 50:13, Revelation 18:20
63And when thou hast made an ende of reading this booke, thou shalt binde a stone to it, and cast it in the middes of Euphrates,
Revelation 18:21, Revelation 18:21, Jeremiah 19:10, Jeremiah 19:11, Jeremiah 19:10
64And shalt say, Thus shall Babel be drowned, and shall not rise from the euil, that I will bring vpon her: and they shall be weary. Thus farre are the wordes of Ieremiah.
Jeremiah 51:58, Jeremiah 51:58, Job 31:40, Job 31:40, Revelation 18:21

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