1Thus saith Jehovah: Behold, I will raise up against Babylon, And against them that dwell in the midst of mine adversaries, A destroying wind;

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Jeremiah 4:11, Jeremiah 4:12, Hosea 13:15, Amos 3:6, Jeremiah 4:11

2And I will send against Babylon winnowers, And they shall winnow her, and empty her land; For they shall come against her on every side.

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Jeremiah 15:7, Matthew 3:12, Jeremiah 15:7, Matthew 3:12, Isaiah 41:16

3Against him that bendeth, let the archer bend his bow, And against him that lifteth himself up in his brigandine! And spare ye not her young men; Destroy ye utterly her whole host!

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Jeremiah 50:14, Jeremiah 50:14, Jeremiah 46:4, Jeremiah 46:4, Jeremiah 50:21

4Thus shall they fall down slain in the land of the Chaldaeans, And thrust through in her streets.

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Jeremiah 49:26, Jeremiah 49:26, Isaiah 13:15, Jeremiah 50:30, Isaiah 13:15

5For Israel is not forsaken, nor Judah abandoned of his God, of Jehovah of hosts; For their land is full of guilt against the Holy One of Israel.

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Romans 11:1, Romans 11:2, Romans 11:1, Romans 11:2, Zechariah 12:6

6Flee ye out of Babylon, And save ye every man his life, That ye be not cut off in her punishment! For this is the time of Jehovah’s vengeance; He will render to her a recompense.

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Jeremiah 50:8, Jeremiah 50:8, Jeremiah 50:15, Jeremiah 50:28, Jeremiah 50:15

7Babylon has been a golden cup in the hand of Jehovah, That made all the earth drunken; The nations have drunken of her wine, Therefore the nations are mad.

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Revelation 14:8, Revelation 14:8, Revelation 17:4, Revelation 17:4, Revelation 17:2

8Babylon is suddenly fallen, and broken; Howl ye over her; Bring ye balm for her wounds, If so be she may be healed.

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Isaiah 21:9, Jeremiah 46:11, Isaiah 21:9, Jeremiah 46:11, Revelation 14:8

9"We would have healed Babylon, But she cannot be healed. Forsake her, and let us go every one to his own country! For her punishment reacheth to the heavens, And ascendeth even to the skies."

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Jeremiah 50:16, Revelation 18:5, Jeremiah 50:16, Revelation 18:5, Isaiah 13:14

10Jehovah hath brought forth our deliverance; Come ye, and let us declare in Zion The work of Jehovah our God.

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Jeremiah 50:28, Jeremiah 50:28, Psalms 37:6, Psalms 37:6, Isaiah 40:2

11Make sharp the arrows; put on the shields! Jehovah hath roused up the spirit of the kings of the Medes; For his purpose is against Babylon, to destroy it; For this is the vengeance of Jehovah, The vengeance for his temple.

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Jeremiah 46:4, Jeremiah 46:4, Jeremiah 50:45, Jeremiah 50:45, Jeremiah 50:9

12Against the walls of Babylon set up a standard, Make strong the guard, appoint the watchmen, prepare the ambush! For Jehovah deviseth and doeth that which he spake Against the inhabitants of Babylon.

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Isaiah 13:2, Jeremiah 51:11, Isaiah 13:2, Jeremiah 51:11, Jeremiah 51:29

13O thou that dwellest by great waters, That aboundest in treasures, Thine end is come; The measure of thy rapaciousness is full!

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Revelation 17:1, Revelation 17:1, Isaiah 45:3, Revelation 17:15, Isaiah 45:3

14Jehovah of hosts hath sworn by himself, [saying,] Surely I will fill thee with men, as with caterpillars, Who shall raise the war-shout against thee.

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Amos 6:8, Jeremiah 49:13, Joel 2:25, Jeremiah 50:15, Amos 6:8

15He made the earth by his power, He established the world by his wisdom, And by his understanding he spread out the heavens.

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Jeremiah 10:12, Jeremiah 10:16, Jeremiah 10:12, Jeremiah 10:16, Revelation 4:11

16When he uttereth his voice there is an abundance of water in the heavens; He causeth clouds to ascend from the ends of the earth; He bringeth the wind from his storehouses.

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Psalms 135:7, Psalms 135:7, Jonah 1:4, Psalms 18:13, Jonah 1:4

17Brutish is every man who hath not this knowledge; By his images is every founder put to shame; For his molten work is deceit; There is no breath in it.

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Jeremiah 10:14, Habakkuk 2:18, Habakkuk 2:19, Jeremiah 10:14, Habakkuk 2:18

18They are vanity, deceptive work; In the time of their punishment shall they perish.

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Zephaniah 2:11, Jeremiah 10:8, Exodus 12:12, Jeremiah 43:12, Jeremiah 43:13

19Not like them is he who is the portion of Jacob; He is the former of all things, And Israel is his allotted inheritance. Jehovah of hosts is his name.

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Psalms 73:26, Jeremiah 10:16, Psalms 73:26, Jeremiah 10:16, Psalms 33:12

20Thou hast been to me my battle-hammer, My weapon of war. And with thee I broke in pieces the nations, And with thee I destroyed the kingdoms.

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Isaiah 41:15, Isaiah 41:16, Isaiah 41:15, Isaiah 41:16, Micah 4:13

21And with thee I broke in pieces the horse and his rider, And with thee I broke in pieces the chariot and its driver.

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Exodus 15:1, Exodus 15:1, Zechariah 10:5, Zechariah 10:5, Zechariah 12:4

22With thee I broke in pieces man and woman, And with thee I broke in pieces the old and the young, And with thee I broke in pieces the young man and the maiden.

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2 Chronicles 36:17, 2 Chronicles 36:17, Isaiah 13:18, Isaiah 13:18, Ezekiel 9:6

23With thee I broke in pieces the shepherd and his flock, And with thee I broke in pieces the husbandman and his team; And with thee I broke in pieces prefects and governors.

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Jeremiah 51:57, Jeremiah 51:57

24But now before your eyes will I repay to Babylon, And to all the inhabitants of Chaldaea, All the evil which they have done in Zion, saith Jehovah.

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Jeremiah 50:15, Jeremiah 50:15, Isaiah 63:1, Isaiah 63:4, Revelation 18:24

25O thou destroying mountain, that destroyest the whole earth, Behold, I am against thee, saith Jehovah! And I will stretch out my hand against thee, And roll thee down from the rocks, And make thee a burnt mountain,

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Revelation 8:8, Revelation 8:8, Zechariah 4:7, Zechariah 4:7, Jeremiah 50:31

26So that none shall take from thee a corner-stone, or a foundation-stone; But thou shalt be a perpetual desolation, saith Jehovah.

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Isaiah 13:19, Isaiah 13:22, Isaiah 13:19, Isaiah 13:22, Jeremiah 51:43

27Set ye up a standard in the land, Sound a trumpet among the nations; Enlist the nations against Babylon, Call together against her the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ashchenaz; Appoint captains against her, Cause the horses to come up like the bristled locusts!

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Genesis 10:3, Genesis 10:3, Genesis 8:4, 1 Chronicles 1:6, Genesis 8:4

28Enlist ye against her the nations, The kings of the Medes, and their prefects, And all their governors, And all the lands under their dominion,

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Jeremiah 51:11, Jeremiah 51:11, Daniel 6:8, Esther 1:3, Daniel 5:28

29So that the earth shall tremble and quake! For the purpose of Jehovah against Babylon is to be fulfilled, To make the land of Babylon a desolation, without an inhabitant.

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Jeremiah 51:43, Jeremiah 51:11, Jeremiah 51:12, Jeremiah 8:16, Jeremiah 51:43

30The mighty men of Babylon refuse to fight; They remain in their stronghold; Their strength hath failed; They have become women; Her habitations are burned; Her bars are broken.

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Nahum 3:13, Nahum 3:13, Jeremiah 50:36, Jeremiah 50:37, Jeremiah 50:36

31Courier runs to meet courier, And messenger to meet messenger, To make known to the king of Babylon, That his city is taken from end to end;

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2 Samuel 18:19, 2 Samuel 18:31, 2 Chronicles 30:6, 2 Samuel 18:19, 2 Samuel 18:31

32That the passages are taken, That the reeds are burned with fire, And that the men of war are struck with terror.

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Jeremiah 51:30, Jeremiah 50:37, Jeremiah 50:38, Isaiah 44:27, Jeremiah 51:30

33For thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel: The daughter of Babylon shall be like a thrashing-floor when it is thrashed; Yet a little while, and the time of harvest for her shall come.

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Isaiah 21:10, Isaiah 21:10, Joel 3:13, Hosea 6:11, Joel 3:13

34Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, hath devoured us; He hath made an end of us; He hath made us empty vessels; He hath swallowed us up like a dragon; He hath filled his maw with our delicacies; He hath cast us out.

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Jeremiah 50:17, Jeremiah 50:17, Jeremiah 51:44, Jeremiah 51:44, Job 20:15

35"The violence done to me and to my flesh be upon Babylon!" Shall the inhabitant of Zion say; And, "My blood be upon the inhabitants of Chaldaeans!" shall Jerusalem say.

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Revelation 18:20, Jeremiah 50:29, Revelation 18:20, Jeremiah 50:29, Matthew 7:2

36Therefore, thus saith Jehovah: Behold, I will maintain thy cause, And take vengeance for thee; And I will dry up her sea, And make her springs dry.

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Romans 12:19, Romans 12:19, Psalms 140:12, Jeremiah 50:38, Psalms 140:12

37And Babylon shall become heaps, The dwelling-place of jackals, An astonishment and a hissing, Without an inhabitant.

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Revelation 18:2, Revelation 18:2, Jeremiah 18:16, Jeremiah 25:9, Revelation 18:21

38Together shall they roar like lions; They shall yell like lions’ whelps.

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Jeremiah 2:15, Jeremiah 2:15, Psalms 58:6, Nahum 2:11, Nahum 2:13

39In their heat I will prepare them a drink, And will make them drunk, so that they shall rejoice, And then sleep an everlasting sleep, And awake no more, saith Jehovah.

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Jeremiah 51:57, Jeremiah 51:57, Jeremiah 25:27, Jeremiah 25:27, Nahum 1:10

40I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, Like rams with he-goats.

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Jeremiah 50:27, Jeremiah 50:27, Psalms 37:20, Isaiah 34:6, Psalms 44:22

41How is Sheshach taken! How is the praise of the whole earth fallen! How is Babylon become an astonishment among the nations!

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Jeremiah 25:26, Jeremiah 25:26, Isaiah 13:19, Isaiah 13:19, Jeremiah 49:25

42The sea is come up over Babylon; With the roaring of its waves is she covered.

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Isaiah 8:7, Isaiah 8:8, Isaiah 8:7, Isaiah 8:8, Daniel 9:26

43Her cities have become a desolation, A dry land and a desert, A land in which no man dwelleth, And which no son of man passeth through.

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Isaiah 13:20, Jeremiah 2:6, Isaiah 13:20, Jeremiah 2:6, Jeremiah 51:29

44I will punish Bel at Babylon, And bring forth from his mouth that which he hath swallowed, And the nations shall flow to him no more; Even the wall of Babylon shall fall.

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Jeremiah 51:34, Jeremiah 51:58, Jeremiah 51:34, Jeremiah 51:58, Jeremiah 50:2

45Go ye out of her, my people, And save ye every man his life From the fierce anger of Jehovah!

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

46And let not your heart faint, And fear ye not on account of the rumors which are heard in the land, When in one year a rumor cometh, And after it in another year another rumor, And violence is in the land, Ruler against ruler.

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2 Kings 19:7, Isaiah 13:3, Isaiah 13:5, Isaiah 19:2, 2 Kings 19:7

47Therefore, behold the days come When I will punish the graven images of Babylon, And her whole land shall be confounded; And all her slain shall fall in the midst of her.

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Jeremiah 50:2, Jeremiah 50:2, Jeremiah 51:52, Isaiah 46:1, Isaiah 46:2

48Then the heavens shall shout over Babylon, And the earth and all that is therein; For out of the North come spoilers against her, saith Jehovah.

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Revelation 18:20, Isaiah 44:23, Revelation 18:20, Isaiah 44:23, Jeremiah 50:3

49As Babylon caused the slain of Israel to fall, So at Babylon shall fall the slain of all the land.

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Jeremiah 51:24, Jeremiah 50:29, Jeremiah 51:24, Jeremiah 50:29, Psalms 137:8

50Ye that have escaped her sword, go! Tarry not! Remember Jehovah afar off, And let Jerusalem come into your mind!

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Jeremiah 44:28, Jeremiah 44:28, Psalms 122:6, Psalms 122:6, Revelation 18:4

51We have been confounded, because we have heard reproach; Shame hath covered our faces, For strangers have come into the sanctuaries of the house of Jehovah.

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Lamentations 1:10, Lamentations 1:10, Psalms 44:13, Psalms 44:16, Psalms 79:4

52Therefore, behold, the days come, saith Jehovah, When I will punish her graven images, And through all her land shall the wounded groan.

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Jeremiah 51:47, Jeremiah 51:47, Jeremiah 50:38, Jeremiah 50:38, Ezekiel 30:24

53Though Babylon should mount up to the heavens, And make inaccessible the height of her strength, Yet from me shall spoilers come upon her, saith Jehovah.

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Genesis 11:4, Jeremiah 49:16, Genesis 11:4, Jeremiah 49:16, Jeremiah 51:25

54Hark! a cry from Babylon, Of great destruction from the land of the Chaldaeans!

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Jeremiah 50:22, Jeremiah 50:22, Jeremiah 48:3, Jeremiah 48:5, Jeremiah 50:46

55For Jehovah destroyeth Babylon, And bringeth to silence her loud tumult; Their waves roar like great waters; Their tumultuous noise resounds.

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Jeremiah 25:10, Jeremiah 25:10, Psalms 93:3, Psalms 93:4, Jeremiah 51:42

56For the spoiler is come upon her, upon Babylon; And their mighty men are taken, And all their bows are broken; For Jehovah is a God of retribution; He will surely requite.

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Psalms 46:9, Jeremiah 51:6, Psalms 94:1, Psalms 94:2, Habakkuk 2:8

57And I will make drunk her princes, and her wise men, Her prefects, and her governors, and her mighty men; And they shall sleep an everlasting sleep, And shall no more awake, saith the King, Whose name is Jehovah of hosts.

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Jeremiah 46:18, Jeremiah 46:18, Jeremiah 48:15, Jeremiah 25:27, Jeremiah 48:15

58Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: The broad walls of Babylon shall be razed to the foundations, And her high gates shall be burned with fire; So that nations shall have labored for naught, And kingdoms have wearied themselves for fire.

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Jeremiah 51:64, Habakkuk 2:13, Jeremiah 51:64, Habakkuk 2:13, Jeremiah 51:44

59The word which Jeremiah the prophet commanded Seraiah, the son of Neriah, the son of Maaseiah, when he went with Zedekiah, the king of Judah, into Babylon, in the fourth year of his reign. This Seraiah was chief chamberlain.

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Jeremiah 32:12, Jeremiah 36:4, Jeremiah 32:12, Jeremiah 36:4, Jeremiah 28:1

60And Jeremiah wrote all the evil that was to come upon Babylon in one book, all these words that are written concerning Babylon.

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Habakkuk 2:2, Habakkuk 2:3, Isaiah 30:8, Jeremiah 36:32, Jeremiah 30:2

61And Jeremiah said to Seraiah, When thou comest to Babylon, see that thou read all these words,

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Colossians 4:16, Mark 13:1, 1 Thessalonians 4:18, Revelation 1:3, Matthew 24:1

62and say, O Jehovah, thou hast spoken against this place to destroy it, so that none shall remain in it, neither man nor beast, but that it shall remain desolate forever!

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Jeremiah 50:3, Jeremiah 50:13, Jeremiah 50:3, Jeremiah 50:13, Revelation 18:20

63And when thou hast made an end of reading this book, bind a stone upon it, and cast it into the midst of the Euphrates,

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Revelation 18:21, Revelation 18:21, Jeremiah 19:10, Jeremiah 19:11, Jeremiah 19:10

64and say: So shall Babylon sink, and shall not rise again from the evil which I bring upon her. And they shall utterly fail. Thus far the words of Jeremiah.

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Jeremiah 51:58, Jeremiah 51:58, Job 31:40, Job 31:40, Revelation 18:21