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Jeremiah 51:36

Therefore Yahweh says this: See, I am about to plead your case and bring about vengeance for you. 1 For I will dry up Babylon's waters and make her springs run dry. 1

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Therefore thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will plead thy cause, and take vengeance for thee; and I will dry up her sea, and make her springs dry.

In Context

35The one who lives in Zion will say, 'May the violence done to me and my flesh be on Babylon.' 1 Jerusalem will say, 'May my blood be on the inhabitants of Chaldea.' 1

37Babylon will become heaps of rubble, a den of jackals, a horror, 1 an object of hissing, where there are no inhabitants. 1

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 32:35Vengeance is mine to give, and recompense, 1 at the time when their foot slips; 1 for the day of disaster for them is near, 1 and the things that are to come on them will hurry to happen.” 1

Psalms 94:1Yahweh, God who avenges, 1 God who avenges, shine over us. 1

Psalms 140:12I know that Yahweh will judge in favor of the afflicted, 1 and that he will give justice to the needy. 1

Proverbs 23:11for their Redeemer is strong 1 and he will plead their case against you. 1

Isaiah 43:14This is what Yahweh says, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: 1 “For your sake I send to Babylon and lead them all down as fugitives, 1 turning the Babylonians' expressions of joy into songs of lamentation. 1

Isaiah 47:6I was angry with my people; I defiled my heritage 1 and gave them over into your hand, but you showed them no mercy; 1 you placed a very heavy yoke on the old people. 1

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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