Jeremiah 50:42
They shall holde the bowe and the buckeler: they are cruell and vnmercifull: their voyce shall roare like the sea, and they shall ride vpon horses, and be put in aray like men to the battell against thee, O daughter of Babel.
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Psalms 46:2Therefore will not we feare, though the earth be moued, and though the mountaines fall into the middes of the sea.
Psalms 74:20Consider thy couenant: for the darke places of the earth are full of the habitations of the cruell.
Isaiah 5:28Whose arrowes shall be sharpe, and all his bowes bent: his horse hoofes shall be thought like flint, and his wheeles like a whirlewinde.
Isaiah 13:17Beholde, I will stirre vp the Medes against them, which shall not regarde siluer, nor be desirous of golde.
Isaiah 47:6I was wroth with my people: I haue polluted mine inheritance, and giuen them into thine had: thou diddest shew them no mercy, but thou didest lay thy very heauy yoke vpon the ancient.
Jeremiah 8:16The neying of his horses was heard from Dan, the whole lande trembled at the noyse of the neying of his strong horses: for they are come, and haue deuoured the land with all that is in it, the citie, and those that dwell therein.
Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 50:34-46
The Judgment of Babylon. ( b. c. 595.) 33 Thus saith the Lord of hosts; The children of Israel and the children of Judah were oppressed together: and all that took them captives held them fast; they refused to let them go. 34 Their Redeemer is strong; the Lord of hosts is his name: he shall thoroughly plead their cause, that he may give rest to the land, and disquiet the inhabitants of Babylon. 35 A sword is upon the Chaldeans, saith the Lord , and upon the inhabitants of Babylon, and upon her princes, and upon… Read the whole commentary →