Jeremiah 50:33
Thus saith the Lord of hosts: The children of Israel, and the children of Juda are oppressed together: all that have taken them captives, hold them fast, they will not let them go.
Douay-Rheims 1899
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Exodus 5:2But he answered: Who is the Lord, that I should hear his voice, and let Israel go? I know not the Lord, neither will I let Israel go.
Exodus 9:2But if thou refuse, and withhold them still:
Isaiah 14:17That made the world a wilderness, and destroyed the cities thereof, that opened not the prison to his prisoners?
Isaiah 49:24Shall the prey be taken from the strong? or can that which was taken by the mighty be delivered?
Isaiah 52:4For thus saith the Lord God: My people went down into Egypt at the beginning to sojourn there: and the Assyrian hath oppressed them without any cause at all.
Jeremiah 30:20And their children shall be as from the beginning, and their assembly be permanent before me : and I will against all that afflict them.
Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 50:22-33
The Judgment of Babylon. ( b. c. 595.) 21 Go 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. 22 A sound of battle is in the land, and of great destruction. 23 How is the hammer of the whole earth cut asunder and broken! how is Babylon become a desolation among the nations! 24 I have laid a snare for thee, and thou art also taken, O Babylon, and thou wast not aware:… Read the whole commentary →