Jeremiah 50:33
Thus hath said the Lord of hosts, The children of Israel and the children of Judah are oppressed together: and all that took them captive hold them fast; they refuse to dismiss them.
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Exodus 5:2And Pharaoh said, Who is the Everlasting, whose voice I am to obey, to let Israel go? I know not the Everlasting, nor will I let Israel go.
Exodus 9:2For if thou refusest to let them go, and still holdest on to them,
Isaiah 14:17That rendered the world as a wilderness, and pulled down its cities: never opened the prison-house of his prisoners?”
Isaiah 49:24Shall the prey be taken from the mighty, or shall the captive of the victor escape?
Isaiah 52:4For thus hath said the Lord Eternal, Into Egypt went my people down aforetimes, to sojourn there, and Asshur hath oppressed it without cause.
Jeremiah 30:20And their children shall be as aforetimes, and their congregation shall be firmly established before me, and I will punish all that oppress 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 →