Jeremiah 51:47

Therefore, lo! days coming when I will bring punishment upon the images of Babylon, And all her land, shall turn pale,—Yea, all her wounded, shall fall in her midst.

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

In The King James Version

Therefore, behold, the days come, that I will do judgment upon the graven images of Babylon: and her whole land shall be confounded, and all her slain shall fall in the midst of her.

In Context

46And let not your heart be timid, nor be ye afraid, Because of the report that is reported in the earth When there shall come in one year, the report And after that in another year, the report, With violence in the earth, and ruler upon ruler.

48Then shall shout over Babylon—heavens and earth and all who are therein,—For out of the North, shall come to her the spoilers Declareth Yahweh.

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Cross References

Isaiah 46:1Bel, hath crouched, Nebo, is cowering, Their images, are delivered up to beast and to cattle,—The things ye carried about, are become a load, A burden, to the weary!

Jeremiah 13:21What wilt thou say when he shall bring punishment upon thee, Since, thou thyself, hast accustomed them to be over thee as friends in chief? Shall not, pangs, seize thee, as of a woman in childbirth?

Jeremiah 25:12And it shall some to pass—When the seventy years are fulfilled, I will visit upon the king of Babylon and upon that nation, Declareth Yahweh their iniquity, and upon the land of the Chaldeans,—and I will turn it into age-abiding desolations.

Jeremiah 50:12Your mother, hath turned very pale, She that bare you, hath turned red,—Lo! the last of nations, is—A desert, A parched land, and A waste plain,

Jeremiah 51:18Vanity, they are, A handiwork of mockeries,—In the time of their visitation, shall they perish.

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!

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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