Jeremiah 50:13
Because of the wrath of Jehovah it is not inhabited, And it hath been a desolation — all of it. Every passer by at Babylon is astonished, And doth hiss because of all her plagues.
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Job 27:23It clappeth at him its hands, And it hisseth at him from his place.
Jeremiah 18:16To make their land become a desolation, A hissing age-during, Every passer by it is astonished, And bemoaneth with his head.
Jeremiah 25:12'And it hath come to pass, at the fulness of seventy years, I charge against the king of Babylon, and against that nation — an affirmation of Jehovah — their iniquity, and against the land of the Chaldeans, and have appointed it for desolations age-during.
Jeremiah 51:37And Babylon hath been for heaps, A habitation of dragons, An astonishment, and a hissing, without inhabitant.
Habakkuk 2:6Do not these — all of them — against him a simile taken up, And a moral of acute sayings for him, And say, Woe [to] him who is multiplying [what is] not his? Till when also is he multiplying to himself heavy pledges?
Zechariah 1:15And [with] great wrath I am wroth against the nations who are at ease, For I was a little wroth, and they assisted — for evil.
Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 50:10-21
The Judgment of Babylon. ( b. c. 595.) 9 For, lo, I will raise and cause to come up against Babylon an assembly of great nations from the north country: and they shall set themselves in array against her; from thence she shall be taken: their arrows shall be as of a mighty expert man; none shall return in vain. 10 And Chaldea shall be a spoil: all that spoil her shall be satisfied, saith the Lord . 11 Because ye were glad, because ye rejoiced, O ye destroyers of mine heritage, because ye are grown fat as the… Read the whole commentary →