1The word that the Lord spake against Babylon and against the land of the Chaldeans by Jeremiah the prophet.

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Jeremiah 25:26, Jeremiah 25:27, Jeremiah 25:26, Jeremiah 25:27, Isaiah 13:1

2Declare ye among the nations, and publish, and set up a standard; publish, and conceal not: say, Babylon is taken, Bel is confounded, Merodach is broken in pieces; her idols are confounded, her images are broken in pieces.

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Isaiah 46:1, Isaiah 46:1, Isaiah 21:9, Isaiah 21:9, Jeremiah 51:47

3For out of the north there cometh up a nation against her, which shall make her land desolate, and none shall dwell therein: they shall remove, they shall depart, both man and beast.

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Jeremiah 51:11, Zephaniah 1:3, Jeremiah 51:11, Zephaniah 1:3, Jeremiah 50:9

4In those days, and in that time, saith the Lord, the children of Israel shall come, they and the children of Judah together, going and weeping: they shall go, and seek the Lord their God.

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Hosea 1:11, Hosea 3:5, Jeremiah 31:31, Hosea 1:11, Hosea 3:5

5They shall ask the way to Zion with their faces thitherward, saying, Come, and let us join ourselves to the Lord in a perpetual covenant that shall not be forgotten.

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Jeremiah 32:40, Jeremiah 32:40, Hebrews 8:6, Hebrews 8:10, Hebrews 8:6

6My people hath 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 restingplace.

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Isaiah 53:6, Isaiah 53:6, Matthew 9:36, Matthew 9:36, Ezekiel 34:14

7All that found them have devoured them: and their adversaries said, We offend not, because they have sinned against the Lord, the habitation of justice, even the Lord, the hope of their fathers.

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Jeremiah 14:8, Jeremiah 2:3, Jeremiah 14:8, Jeremiah 2:3, Zechariah 11:5

8Remove out of the midst of Babylon, and go forth out of the land of the Chaldeans, and be as the he goats before the flocks.

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Isaiah 48:20, Jeremiah 51:6, Isaiah 48:20, Jeremiah 51:6, Revelation 18:4

9For, lo, I will raise and cause to come up against Babylon an assembly of great nations from the north country: and they shall set themselves in array against her; from thence she shall be taken: their arrows shall be as of a mighty expert man; none shall return in vain.

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Jeremiah 51:1, Jeremiah 51:4, Jeremiah 15:14, 2 Samuel 1:22, Isaiah 21:2

10And Chaldea shall be a spoil: all that spoil her shall be satisfied, saith the Lord.

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Jeremiah 25:12, Jeremiah 25:12, Isaiah 33:4, Isaiah 33:23, Jeremiah 27:7

11Because ye were glad, because ye rejoiced, O ye destroyers of mine heritage, because ye are grown fat as the heifer at grass, and bellow as bulls;

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Isaiah 47:6, Isaiah 47:6, Jeremiah 46:21, Jeremiah 50:17, Psalms 83:1

12Your mother shall be sore confounded; she that bare you shall be ashamed: behold, the hindermost of the nations shall be a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert.

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Jeremiah 51:43, Jeremiah 51:43, Jeremiah 25:26, Isaiah 13:20, Isaiah 13:22

13Because of the wrath of the Lord it shall not be inhabited, but it shall be wholly desolate: every one that goeth by Babylon shall be astonished, and hiss at all her plagues.

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Jeremiah 18:16, Jeremiah 18:16, Jeremiah 49:17, Jeremiah 49:17, Zephaniah 2:15

14Put yourselves in array against Babylon round about: all ye that bend the bow, shoot at her, spare no arrows: for she hath sinned against the Lord.

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Jeremiah 50:29, Jeremiah 50:29, Habakkuk 2:17, Habakkuk 2:17, Jeremiah 50:7

15Shout against her round about: she hath given her hand: her foundations are fallen, her walls are thrown down: for it is the vengeance of the Lord: take vengeance upon her; as she hath done, do unto her.

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Jeremiah 51:58, Jeremiah 51:58, Jeremiah 51:6, Jeremiah 46:10, Revelation 18:6

16Cut off the sower from Babylon, and him that handleth the sickle in the time of harvest: for fear of the oppressing sword they shall turn every one to his people, and they shall flee every one to his own land.

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Isaiah 13:14, Isaiah 13:14, Jeremiah 51:9, Jeremiah 46:16, Jeremiah 51:9

17Israel is a scattered sheep; the lions have driven him away: first the king of Assyria hath devoured him; and last this Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon hath broken his bones.

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Jeremiah 2:15, Jeremiah 2:15, 2 Kings 18:9, 2 Kings 18:13, Joel 3:2

18Therefore thus saith the Lord 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.

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Isaiah 10:12, Isaiah 10:12, Zephaniah 2:13, Zephaniah 2:15, Isaiah 37:36

19And I will bring Israel again to his habitation, and he shall feed on Carmel and Bashan, and his soul shall be satisfied upon mount Ephraim and Gilead.

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Ezekiel 34:13, Ezekiel 34:14, Micah 7:14, Jeremiah 31:6, Amos 9:14

20In those days, and in that time, saith the Lord, 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 reserve.

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Micah 7:19, Micah 7:19, Jeremiah 31:34, Jeremiah 31:34, Isaiah 43:25

21Go up against the land of Merathaim, even against it, and against the inhabitants of Pekod: waste and utterly destroy after them, saith the Lord, and do according to all that I have commanded thee.

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Ezekiel 23:23, Ezekiel 23:23, 2 Samuel 16:11, 1 Samuel 15:11, 1 Samuel 15:24

22A sound of battle is in the land, and of great destruction.

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Jeremiah 4:19, Jeremiah 4:21, Jeremiah 4:19, Jeremiah 4:21, Jeremiah 51:54

23How is the hammer of the whole earth cut asunder and broken! how is Babylon become a desolation among the nations!

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Jeremiah 51:20, Jeremiah 51:24, Jeremiah 51:20, Jeremiah 51:24, Revelation 18:16

24I have laid a snare for thee, and thou art also taken, O Babylon, and thou wast not aware: thou art found, and also caught, because thou hast striven against the Lord.

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Job 9:4, Daniel 5:30, Daniel 5:31, Job 9:4, Daniel 5:30

25The Lord hath opened his armoury, and hath brought forth the weapons of his indignation: for this is the work of the Lord God of hosts in the land of the Chaldeans.

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Jeremiah 51:55, Jeremiah 51:25, Jeremiah 51:55, Jeremiah 51:25, Jeremiah 50:15

26Come against her from the utmost border, open her storehouses: cast her up as heaps, and destroy her utterly: let nothing of her be left.

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Isaiah 14:23, Isaiah 14:23, Jeremiah 50:10, Isaiah 45:3, Jeremiah 50:10

27Slay all her bullocks; let them go down to the slaughter: woe unto them! for their day is come, the time of their visitation.

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Isaiah 34:7, Jeremiah 46:21, Isaiah 34:7, Jeremiah 46:21, Psalms 22:12

28The voice of them that flee and escape out of the land of Babylon, to declare in Zion the vengeance of the Lord our God, the vengeance of his temple.

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Isaiah 48:20, Lamentations 1:10, Jeremiah 50:15, Isaiah 48:20, Lamentations 1:10

29Call together the archers against Babylon: all ye that bend the bow, camp against it round about; let none thereof escape: recompense her according to her work; according to all that she hath done, do unto her: for she hath been proud against the Lord, against the Holy One of Israel.

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Jeremiah 51:56, Isaiah 47:10, Jeremiah 51:56, Isaiah 47:10, Daniel 4:37

30Therefore shall her young men fall in the streets, and all her men of war shall be cut off in that day, saith the Lord.

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Jeremiah 49:26, Jeremiah 49:26, Jeremiah 18:21, Jeremiah 9:21, Jeremiah 18:21

31Behold, I am against thee, O thou most proud, saith the Lord God of hosts: for thy day is come, the time that I will visit thee.

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Jeremiah 50:29, Jeremiah 21:13, Jeremiah 50:29, Jeremiah 21:13, James 4:6

32And the most proud shall stumble and fall, and none shall raise him up: and I will kindle a fire in his cities, and it shall devour all round about him.

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Jeremiah 21:14, Jeremiah 49:27, Jeremiah 21:14, Jeremiah 49:27, Isaiah 10:12

33Thus saith the Lord of hosts; The children of Israel and the children of Judah were oppressed together: and all that took them captives held them fast; they refused to let them go.

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Isaiah 14:17, Exodus 9:2, Exodus 9:3, Isaiah 14:17, Exodus 9:2

34Their Redeemer is strong; the Lord of hosts is his name: he shall throughly plead their cause, that he may give rest to the land, and disquiet the inhabitants of Babylon.

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Isaiah 54:5, Isaiah 54:5, Isaiah 41:14, Jeremiah 51:36, Isaiah 47:4

35A sword is upon the Chaldeans, saith the Lord, and upon the inhabitants of Babylon, and upon her princes, and upon her wise men.

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Jeremiah 47:6, Jeremiah 47:6, Jeremiah 51:57, Daniel 5:7, Daniel 5:8

36A sword is upon the liars; and they shall dote: a sword is upon her mighty men; and they shall be dismayed.

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Jeremiah 49:22, Jeremiah 49:22, Nahum 3:13, Isaiah 44:25, Nahum 3:13

37A sword is upon their horses, and upon their chariots, and upon all the mingled people that are in the midst of her; and they shall become as women: a sword is upon her treasures; and they shall be robbed.

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Jeremiah 51:30, Jeremiah 51:30, Nahum 3:13, Nahum 3:13, Jeremiah 25:20

38A drought is upon her waters; and they shall be dried up: for it is the land of graven images, and they are mad upon their idols.

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Jeremiah 50:2, Revelation 16:12, Isaiah 44:27, Jeremiah 50:2, Revelation 16:12

39Therefore the wild beasts of the desert with the wild beasts of the islands shall dwell there, and the owls shall dwell therein: and it shall be no more inhabited for ever; neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation.

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Revelation 18:2, Isaiah 13:20, Isaiah 13:22, Revelation 18:2, Isaiah 13:20

40As God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbour cities thereof, saith the Lord; so shall no man abide there, neither shall any son of man dwell therein.

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Genesis 19:24, Genesis 19:25, Genesis 19:24, Genesis 19:25, Jude 1:7

41Behold, a people shall come from the north, and a great nation, and many kings shall be raised up from the coasts of the earth.

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Jeremiah 51:27, Jeremiah 51:28, Jeremiah 51:27, Jeremiah 51:28, Jeremiah 50:9

42They shall hold the bow and the lance: they are cruel, and will not shew mercy: their voice shall roar like the sea, and they shall ride upon horses, every one put in array, like a man to the battle, against thee, O daughter of Babylon.

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Isaiah 5:30, Isaiah 5:30, Jeremiah 8:16, Isaiah 47:6, Jeremiah 47:3

43The king of Babylon hath heard the report of them, and his hands waxed feeble: anguish took hold of him, and pangs as of a woman in travail.

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Jeremiah 51:31, Jeremiah 49:24, Jeremiah 51:31, Jeremiah 49:24, Jeremiah 49:22

44Behold, he shall come up like a lion from the swelling of Jordan unto the habitation of the strong: but I will make them suddenly run away from her: and who is a chosen man, that I may appoint over her? for who is like me? and who will appoint me the time? and who is that shepherd that will stand before me?

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Jeremiah 49:19, Jeremiah 49:21, Jeremiah 49:19, Jeremiah 49:21, Exodus 15:11

45Therefore hear ye the counsel of the Lord, that he hath taken against Babylon; and his purposes, that he hath purposed against the land of the Chaldeans: Surely the least of the flock shall draw them out: surely he shall make their habitation desolate with them.

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Jeremiah 49:20, Jeremiah 49:20, Jeremiah 51:10, Jeremiah 51:11, Jeremiah 51:10

46At the noise of the taking of Babylon the earth is moved, and the cry is heard among the nations.

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Jeremiah 49:21, Jeremiah 49:21, Ezekiel 31:16, Ezekiel 26:18, Revelation 18:9