1The word that the Lord spoke concerning Babylon, concerning 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

2"Declare among the nations and publish, and set up a standard; publish, and do not conceal: say, 'Babylon is taken, Bel is disappointed, Merodach is dismayed; her images are disappointed, her idols are dismayed.

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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 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.

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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,' says the Lord, 'the children of Israel shall come, they and the children of Judah together; they shall go on their way weeping, and shall 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 inquire concerning Zion with their faces turned toward it, saying, "Come, and join yourselves to the Lord in an everlasting 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 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.

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

7All who found them have devoured them; and their adversaries said, "We are not guilty, because they have sinned against the Lord, the habitation of righteousness, 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

8Flee 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.

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

9For, 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.

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

10Chaldea shall be a prey: all who prey on her shall be satisfied,' says the Lord.'

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

11Because 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;

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

12your mother shall be utterly disappointed; she who bore you shall be confounded: behold, she shall be the least of the nations, 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 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.

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

14"Set yourselves in array against Babylon all around, all you who bend the bow; shoot at her, spare no arrows: for she has 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 all around: she has submitted herself; her towers are fallen, her walls are thrown down; for it is the vengeance of the Lord: take vengeance on her; as she has done, do to 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 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."'

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

17'Israel is a hunted sheep; the lions have driven him away: first, the king of Assyria devoured him; and now at last Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has 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 says 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

19I 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.

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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, says 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 leave as a remnant."'"

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

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

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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 apart 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 you, and you are also taken, Babylon, and you weren't aware: you are found, and also caught, because you have 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 has opened his armory, and has brought forth the weapons of his indignation; for the Lord, the Lord of hosts, has a work to do 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

27Kill all her bulls; let them go down to the slaughter: woe to them! For their day has 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 those who 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

29"Call together the archers against Babylon, all those who bend the bow; encamp against her all around; 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 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 her young men will fall in her streets, and all her men of war will be brought to silence in that day," says the Lord.

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

31"Behold, I am against you, you proud one," says the Lord, the Lord of hosts; for your day has come, the time that I will visit you.

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

32The 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 around him."

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

33Thus says the Lord 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.

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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 will thoroughly plead their cause, that he may give rest to the earth, 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 on the Chaldeans," says the Lord, "and on the inhabitants of Babylon, and on her princes, and on 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 on the boasters, and they shall become fools; a sword is on 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 on their horses, and on their chariots, and on all the mixed 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.

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

38A drought is on her waters, and they shall be dried up; for it is a land of engraved images, and they glory over idols.

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

39Therefore 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.

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

40As when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbor cities of it," says the Lord, "so shall no man dwell there, neither shall any son of man live therein."

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

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.

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

42They 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.

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

43The king of Babylon has heard the news of them, and his hands wax feeble: anguish has taken hold of him, pains as of a woman in labor.

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

44Behold, 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?"

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

45Therefore hear the counsel of the Lord, 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.

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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 trembles, 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