Jeremiah 50:39
Therefore shall the criers dwell with, the howlers, Yea ostriches, shall dwell therein,—So shall it be dwelt in no more for ever, Neither shall it be inhabited unto generation after generation.
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
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Isaiah 13:20It shall not be dwelt in for ever, Neither shall it be inhabited from generation to generation,—Neither shall encamp there, an Arab, Nor, shepherds, fold their flocks there.
Isaiah 34:11That the vomiting pelican and the bittern may possess it: And the great owl and the raven, dwell therein; Then will he stretch out over it The line of desolation, and The plummet of emptiness.
Jeremiah 50:3For there hath come up against her—a nation out of the North The same, shall make her land an astonishment, And there shall be none to dwell therein,—Both man and beast, have removed—have gone.
Jeremiah 51:26So shall they not fetch from thee A stone for a corner nor A stone for a foundation,—For desolations age-abiding, shalt thou become Declareth Yahweh.
Jeremiah 51:43Her cities have become, an astonishment, A land parched up, and a waste plain,—A land wherein shall no man dwell, Nor pass through them a son of the earth-born!
Revelation 18:2And he cried out, with a mighty voice, saying—Fallen! fallen! is Babylon the Great, and hath become a habitation of demons, and a prison of every impure spirit, and a prison of every impure and hated bird;
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 →