Jeremiah 51:49
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)““Babylon must fall on account of the slain of Israel, just as the slain of all the earth have fallen because of Babylon.”
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““Babylon must fall on account of the slain of Israel, just as the slain of all the earth have fallen because of Babylon.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“As Babylon hath caused the slain of Israel to fall, so at Babylon shall fall the slain of all the earth.”
King James Version · Public Domain“As Babylon hath caused the slain of Israel to fall, so at Babylon shall fall the slain of all the land.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“Even Babylon <FI>is<Fi> to fall, ye pierced of Israel, Even they of Babylon have fallen, Ye pierced of all the earth.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Jeremiah 51:49 — 12 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Judges 1:7Then Adoni-bezek said, “Seventy kings with their thumbs and big toes cut off have gathered the scraps under my table. As I have done to them, so God has repaid me.” And they brought him to Jerusalem, where he died.
- Psalms 137:8O Daughter of Babylon, doomed to destruction, blessed is he who repays you as you have done to us.
- Jeremiah 50:11“Because you rejoice, because you sing in triumph— you who plunder My inheritance— because you frolic like a heifer treading grain and neigh like stallions,
- Jeremiah 50:17Israel is a scattered flock, chased away by lions. The first to devour him was the king of Assyria; the last to crush his bones was Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon.”
- Jeremiah 50:29Summon the archers against Babylon, all who string the bow. Encamp all around her; let no one escape. Repay her according to her deeds; do to her as she has done. For she has defied the LORD, the Holy One of Israel.
- Jeremiah 50:33This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “The sons of Israel are oppressed, and the sons of Judah as well. All their captors hold them fast, refusing to release them.
- Jeremiah 51:10“The LORD has brought forth our vindication; come, let us tell in Zion what the LORD our God has accomplished.”
- Jeremiah 51:24Before your very eyes I will repay Babylon and all the dwellers of Chaldea for all the evil they have done in Zion,” declares the LORD.
- Jeremiah 51:35May the violence done to me and to my flesh be upon Babylon,” says the dweller of Zion. “May my blood be on the dwellers of Chaldea,” says Jerusalem.
- Matthew 7:2For with the same judgment you pronounce, you will be judged; and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.
- James 2:13For judgment without mercy will be shown to anyone who has not been merciful. Mercy triumphs over judgment.
- Revelation 18:5For her sins are piled up to heaven, and God has remembered her iniquities.
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