Jeremiah 51:36
Therefore, Thus, saith Yahweh, Behold me! pleading thy cause, So then I will execute the avenging of thee; And will dry up her sea, And make dry her spring:
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Deuteronomy 32:35Unto the days of vengeance and requital: Unto the time their foot shall totter? For, near, is the day of their fate, And their destiny speedeth on.
Psalms 94:1O GOD of avenging—Yahweh, GOD of avenging, shine forth:
Psalms 140:12I know that Yahweh will execute, the right of the oppressed one, the vindication of the needy.
Proverbs 23:11For, their near of kin, is strong, he, will plead their cause with thee.
Isaiah 43:14Thus saith Yahweh, Your Redeemer, The Holy One of Israel,—For your sakes, have I sent into Babylon, And will bring down as fugitives, all of them,—Even the Chaldeans, in the ships which cause them loud outcry.
Isaiah 47:6I had been provoked with my people, Had profaned mine inheritance, And given them into thy hand, …Thou shewedst them no compassion, Upon the elder, madest thou very heavy thy yoke.
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 →