Jeremiah 50:1
The word which the Lord said about Babylon, about the land of the Chaldaeans, by Jeremiah the prophet.
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Genesis 10:10And at the first, his kingdom was Babel and Erech and Accad and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.
2 Samuel 23:2The spirit of the Lord had voice through me, his word was on my tongue.
Psalms 137:8O daughter of Babylon, whose fate is destruction; happy is the man who does to you what you have done to us.
Isaiah 14:4That you will take up this bitter song against the king of Babylon, and say, How has the cruel overseer come to an end! He who was lifted up in pride is cut off;
Isaiah 23:13...
Jeremiah 25:12And it will come about, after seventy years are ended, that I will send punishment on the king of Babylon, and on that nation, says the Lord, for their evil-doing, and on the land of the Chaldaeans; and I will make it a waste for ever.
Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 50:1
In this chapter, and that which follows, we have the judgment of Babylon, which is put last of Jeremiah's prophecies against the Gentiles because it was last accomplished; and when the cup of God's fury went round ( ch.25.17 ) the king of Sheshach, Babylon, drank last. Babylon was employed as the rod in God's hand for the chastising of all the other nations, and now at length that rod shall be thrown into the fire. The destruction of Babylon by Cyrus was foretold, long before it came to its height, by Isaiah, and… Read the whole commentary →