Jeremiah 50:24
I laid a snare for thee yea and thou wast captured O Babylon, when, thou wast not aware,—Thou wast found out yea and taken, For with Yahweh, hadst thou contended.
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
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Exodus 10:3And Moses and Aaron went in unto Pharaoh, and said unto him—Thus, saith Yahweh, God of the Hebrews, How long hast thou refused to humble thyself before me? Let my people go that they may serve me.
Job 15:25Because he had stretched out—against GOD—his hand, and, against the Almighty, had been wont to behave himself proudly;
Job 40:9But if, an arm like GOD, thou hast, and, with a voice like his, thou canst thunder,
Isaiah 13:11And I will visit, upon the inhabited earth, calamity!, And upon the lawless, their punishment, And will quiet the arrogance of the proud, And the loftiness of tyrants, will I lay low.
Isaiah 45:9Alas for him who contendeth with his Fashioner,—A potsherd, [should contend] with the potsherds of the ground! Shall it be said by the clay, unto him that is fashioning it, What wouldst thou make? Or, thy work say, of thee, He hath no hands?
Jeremiah 51:31Runner to meet runner, shall they run, And teller to meet teller,-To tell the king of Babylon, That captured is his city at the end!
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 →