1The word that the Lord spake against Babylon and against the land of the Chaldeans by Jeremiah the prophet.[ † ]Genesis 10:10Genesis 11:92 Kings 17:24Isaiah 13:1Isaiah 47:1Daniel 1:1Revelation 14:8 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.[ † ]Isaiah 21:9Isaiah 46:1Jeremiah 51:44Jeremiah 43:12-13 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.[ † ]Jeremiah 51:48Daniel 5:30-31Isaiah 13:17-18, 20
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.[ † ]Ezra 2:1Isaiah 11:12-13Jeremiah 3:18Jeremiah 31:31Jeremiah 33:7Hosea 1:11Ezra 3:12-13Psalms 126:5Jeremiah 31:9Zechariah 12:10Hosea 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.[ † ]Jeremiah 31:31
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.[ † ]Isaiah 53:6Ezekiel 34:15-16Matthew 9:36Matthew 10:61 Peter 2:25Jeremiah 23:1Ezekiel 34:2Jeremiah 2:20Jeremiah 3:6-23 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.[ † ]Psalms 79:7Jeremiah 40:2-3Zechariah 11:5Jeremiah 2:3Daniel 9:16Psalms 90:1Psalms 91:1Psalms 22:4Jeremiah 14:8Jeremiah 17:13
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.[ † ]Isaiah 48:20Jeremiah 51:6-45Zechariah 2:6-7Revelation 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.[ † ]Jeremiah 15:14Jeremiah 51:272 Samuel 1:22 10And Chaldea shall be a spoil: all that spoil her shall be satisfied, saith the Lord .[ † ]Revelation 17:16
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;[ † ]Isaiah 47:6Hosea 10:11 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.[ † ]Jeremiah 51:43 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.[ † ]Jeremiah 25:12Jeremiah 49:17
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 .[ † ]Jeremiah 51:2 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.[ † ]1 Chronicles 29:242 Chronicles 30:8Lamentations 5:6Ezekiel 17:18Jeremiah 51:58Jeremiah 51:6-11 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.[ † ]Isaiah 13:14Jeremiah 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.[ † ]2 Kings 24:10-14Jeremiah 2:152 Kings 15:292 Kings 17:62 Kings 18:9-132 Kings 25:1-7 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.[ † ]Isaiah 10:12Ezekiel 31:3-11, 12Nahum 3:7-18, 19 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.[ † ]Isaiah 65:10Jeremiah 33:12Ezekiel 34:13 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.[ † ]Numbers 23:21Isaiah 43:25Jeremiah 31:34Micah 7:19Isaiah 1:9
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.[ † ]Ezekiel 23:232 Samuel 16:112 Kings 18:252 Chronicles 36:23Isaiah 10:6Isaiah 44:28Isaiah 48:14 22A sound of battle is in the land, and of great destruction.[ † ]Jeremiah 51:54 23How is the hammer of the whole earth cut asunder and broken! how is Babylon become a desolation among the nations![ † ]Isaiah 14:6Jeremiah 51:20-24 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 .[ † ]Jeremiah 51:8-31Daniel 5:30Isaiah 45:9 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.[ † ]Isaiah 13:5
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. 27Slay all her bullocks; let them go down to the slaughter: woe unto them! for their day is come, the time of their visitation.[ † ]Psalms 22:12Isaiah 34:7Jeremiah 46:21Psalms 37:13Jeremiah 48:44Ezekiel 7:7 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.[ † ]Psalms 149:6-9Jeremiah 51:10
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.[ † ]Psalms 137:8Jeremiah 51:562 Thessalonians 1:6Revelation 18:6Isaiah 47:10 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 .[ † ]Isaiah 13:18Jeremiah 49:26Jeremiah 51:4
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. 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.[ † ]Isaiah 26:5Malachi 4:1Jeremiah 21:14
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. 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.[ † ]Proverbs 23:11Isaiah 43:14Jeremiah 15:21Jeremiah 31:11Revelation 18:8Isaiah 47:4Jeremiah 51:36Micah 7:9
35A sword is upon the Chaldeans, saith the Lord , and upon the inhabitants of Babylon, and upon her princes, and upon her wise men .[ † ]Daniel 5:30Isaiah 47:13Jeremiah 51:57 36A sword is upon the liars; and they shall dote: a sword is upon her mighty men; and they shall be dismayed.[ † ]Isaiah 44:25Jeremiah 48:30 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.[ † ]Jeremiah 25:20Ezekiel 30:5Jeremiah 51:30Nahum 3:13 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.[ † ]Isaiah 44:27Jeremiah 51:36Revelation 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.[ † ]Isaiah 13:21-22Isaiah 34:14Jeremiah 51:37Revelation 18:2Isaiah 13:20Jeremiah 25:12 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.[ † ]Genesis 19:24-25Isaiah 13:19Jeremiah 49:18Luke 17:28-302 Peter 2:6Jude 7Isaiah 13:20
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.[ † ]Isaiah 13:2-5Jeremiah 6:22Jeremiah 25:14Jeremiah 51:27 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.[ † ]Jeremiah 6:23Isaiah 13:18Isaiah 5:30 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.[ † ]Jeremiah 51:31Jeremiah 6:24
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?[ † ]Jeremiah 49:19-21Job 41:10Jeremiah 49:19 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.[ † ]Psalms 33:11Isaiah 14:24Jeremiah 51:10-11Jeremiah 51:29Jeremiah 49:19-20 46At the noise of the taking of Babylon the earth is moved, and the cry is heard among the nations.[ † ]Revelation 18:9