Jeremiah 50:38
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“A drought is upon her waters, and they will be dried up. For it is a land of graven images, and the people go mad over idols.”
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“A drought is upon her waters, and they will be dried up. For it is a land of graven images, and the people go mad over idols.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“A drought is upon her waters; and they shall be dried up: for it is the land of graven images, and they are mad upon their idols.”
King James Version · Public Domain“A drought is upon her waters, and they shall be dried up; for it is a land of graven images, and they are mad over idols.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“A sword <FI>is<Fi> on her waters, and they have been dried up, For it <FI>is<Fi> a land of graven images, And in idols they do boast themselves.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Jeremiah 50:38 — 19 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Genesis 8:1But God remembered Noah and all the animals and livestock that were with him in the ark. And God sent a wind over the earth, and the waters began to subside.
- Judges 6:30Then the men of the city said to Joash, “Bring out your son. He must die, because he has torn down Baal’s altar and cut down the Asherah pole beside it.”
- Isaiah 44:25who foils the signs of false prophets and makes fools of diviners, who confounds the wise and turns their knowledge into nonsense,
- Isaiah 44:27who says to the depths of the sea, ‘Be dry, and I will dry up your currents,’
- Isaiah 46:1Bel crouches; Nebo cowers. Their idols weigh down beasts and cattle. The images you carry are burdensome, a load to the weary animal.
- Jeremiah 50:2“Announce and declare to the nations; lift up a banner and proclaim it; hold nothing back when you say, ‘Babylon is captured; Bel is put to shame; Marduk is shattered, her images are disgraced, her idols are broken in pieces.’
- Jeremiah 50:12your mother will be greatly ashamed; she who bore you will be disgraced. Behold, she will be the least of the nations, a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert.
- Jeremiah 51:7Babylon was a gold cup in the hand of the LORD, making the whole earth drunk. The nations drank her wine; therefore the nations have gone mad.
- Jeremiah 51:32The fords have been seized, the marshes set on fire, and the soldiers are terrified.”
- Jeremiah 51:44I will punish Bel in Babylon. I will make him spew out what he swallowed. The nations will no longer stream to him; even the wall of Babylon will fall.
- Jeremiah 51:47Therefore, behold, the days are coming when I will punish the idols of Babylon. Her entire land will suffer shame, and all her slain will lie fallen within her.
- Jeremiah 51:52“Therefore, behold, the days are coming,” declares the LORD, “when I will punish her idols, and throughout her land the wounded will groan.
- Daniel 3:1King Nebuchadnezzar made a golden statue sixty cubits high and six cubits wide, and he set it up on the plain of Dura in the province of Babylon.
- Daniel 5:4As they drank the wine, they praised their gods of gold and silver, bronze and iron, wood and stone.
- Habakkuk 2:18What use is an idol, that a craftsman should carve it— or an image, a teacher of lies? For its maker trusts in his own creation; he makes idols that cannot speak.
- Acts 17:16While Paul was waiting for them in Athens, he was deeply disturbed in his spirit to see that the city was full of idols.
- Revelation 16:12And the sixth angel poured out his bowl on the great river Euphrates, and its water was dried up to prepare the way for the kings of the East.
- Revelation 17:5And on her forehead a mysterious name was written: BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF PROSTITUTES AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.
- Revelation 17:15Then the angel said to me, “The waters you saw, where the prostitute was seated, are peoples and multitudes and nations and tongues.
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