Jeremiah 51:13

O dweller on many waters, abundant in treasures, || Your end has come—the measure of your dishonest gain.

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

O thou that dwellest upon many waters, abundant in treasures, thine end is come, and the measure of thy covetousness.

In Context

12Lift up an ensign to the walls of Babylon, || Strengthen the watch, || Establish the watchers, prepare the ambush, || For YHWH has both devised and done that which He spoke, || Concerning the inhabitants of Babylon.

14YHWH of Hosts has sworn by Himself, || That, Surely I have filled you [with] men as the cankerworm, || And they have cried against you—shouting.

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Cross References

Genesis 6:13And God said to Noah, “An end of all flesh has come before Me, for the earth has been full of violence from their presence; and behold, I am destroying them with the earth.

Isaiah 45:3And have given to you treasures of darkness, || Even treasures of secret places, || So that you know that I, YHWH, || Who am calling on your name—[am] the God of Israel.

Jeremiah 50:27Slay all her cows, they go down to slaughter, || Woe [is] on them, for their day has come, || The time of their inspection.

Jeremiah 50:37A sword [is] on his horses and on his chariot, || And on all the rabble who [are] in her midst, || And they have become women; A sword [is] on her treasuries, || And they have been spoiled;

Lamentations 4:18They have hunted our steps from going in our broad-places, || Near has been our end, fulfilled our days, || For our end has come.

Daniel 5:26This [is] the interpretation of the thing: Numbered—God has numbered your kingdom, and has finished it.

Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 51:2-59

The Judgment of Babylon. ( b. c. 595.) 1 Thus saith the Lord ; Behold, I will raise up against Babylon, and against them that dwell in the midst of them that rise up against me, a destroying wind; 2 And will send unto Babylon fanners, that shall fan her, and shall empty her land: for in the day of trouble they shall be against her round about. 3 Against 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 all her… Read the whole commentary →

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