Jeremiah 51:11 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹¹ Sharpen the arrows! Fill the quivers! The Lord has stirred up the spirit of the kings of the Medes because his purpose concerning Babylon is to destroy it, for that is the vengeance of the Lord, vengeance for his temple.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹¹ Make bright the arrows; gather the shields: the LORD hath raised up the spirit of the kings of the Medes: for his device is against Babylon, to destroy it; because it is the vengeance of the LORD, the vengeance of his temple.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹¹ Make clean and sharp the arrows, take up the shields or coats of armor [and cover your bodies with them]! The Lord has stirred up the spirit of the kings of the Medes [who with the Persians will destroy the Babylonian Empire], for His purpose concerning Babylon is to destroy it; for that is the vengeance of the Lord, the vengeance [upon Babylon for the plundering and destruction] of His temple.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹¹ Make sharp the arrows; hold firm the shields: Jehovah hath stirred up the spirit of the kings of the Medes; because his purpose is against Babylon, to destroy it: for it is the vengeance of Jehovah, the vengeance of his temple.

Common English Bible

¹¹ Sharpen your arrows; prepare your shields. The LORD is stirring up the spirit of kings from Media. He intends to destroy Babylon; this is the LORD’s retribution, a day of reckoning for his temple.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹¹ Sharpen the arrows, fill the quivers. The Lord has raised up the spirit of the kings of the Medes. And his mind is against Babylon, so that he may destroy her. For this is the vengeance of the Lord, the vengeance of his temple.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹¹ Sharpen the arrows, fill the quivers, the Lord hath raised up the spirit of the kings of the Medes: and his mind is against Babylon to destroy it, because it is the vengeance of the Lord, the vengeance of his temple.

Jeremiah 51:11 Krydshenvisninger

1 Kings 11:14

Then the Lord raised up an adversary against Solomon, Hadad the Edomite; he was of the royal house in Edom.

1 Kings 11:23

God raised up another adversary against Solomon, Rezon son of Eliada, who had fled from his master, King Hadadezer of Zobah.

1 Chronicles 5:26

So the God of Israel stirred up the spirit of King Pul of Assyria, the spirit of King Tiglath-pileser of Assyria, and he carried them away, namely, the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh, and brought them to Halah, Habor, Hara, and the River Gozan, to this day.

2 Chronicles 36:22

In the first year of King Cyrus of Persia, to fulfill the word of the Lord spoken by Jeremiah, the Lord stirred up the spirit of King Cyrus of Persia so that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom and also in writing, saying:

Ezra 1:1

In the first year of King Cyrus of Persia, to fulfill the word of the Lord from the mouth of Jeremiah, the Lord stirred up the spirit of King Cyrus of Persia so that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom and also in writing, saying:

Isaiah 10:26

The Lord of hosts will wield a whip against them, as when he struck Midian at the rock of Oreb; his staff will be over the sea, and he will lift it as he did in Egypt.

Isaiah 21:2

A stern vision is told to me; the betrayer betrays, and the destroyer destroys. Go up, O Elam; lay siege, O Media; all the sighing she has caused I bring to an end.

Isaiah 21:5

They prepare the table; they spread the rugs; they eat; they drink. Rise up, commanders; oil the shield!

Isaiah 41:25

I stirred up one from the north, and he has come, from the rising of the sun he was summoned by name. He shall trample on rulers as on mortar, as the potter treads clay.

Isaiah 45:1

Thus says the Lord to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have grasped to subdue nations before him and to strip kings of their robes, to open doors before him— and the gates shall not be closed:

Isaiah 45:5

I am the Lord, and there is no other; besides me there is no god. I arm you, though you do not know me,

Isaiah 46:11

calling a bird of prey from the east, the man for my purpose from a far country. I have spoken, and I will bring it to pass; I have planned, and I will do it.

Jeremiah 25:25

all the kings of Zimri, all the kings of Elam, and all the kings of Media;

Jeremiah 46:3

Prepare buckler and shield, and advance for battle!

Jeremiah 46:4

Harness the horses; mount the steeds! Take your stations with helmets on, whet the lances, put on coats of mail!

Jeremiah 46:9

Advance, O horses, and dash madly, O chariots! Let the warriors go forth: Cush and Put, who carry the shield, the Ludim, who draw the bow.

Jeremiah 50:25

The Lord has opened his armory and brought out the weapons of his wrath, for the Lord God of hosts has a task in the land of the Chaldeans.

Jeremiah 50:3

For out of the north a nation has come up against her; it shall make her land a desolation, and no one shall live in it; both humans and animals shall flee away.

Jeremiah 50:45

Therefore hear the plan that the Lord has made against Babylon and the purposes that he has formed against the land of the Chaldeans: Surely the little ones of the flock shall be dragged away; surely the fold shall be appalled at their fate.

Jeremiah 50:9

For I am going to stir up and bring against Babylon a company of great nations from the land of the north, and they shall array themselves against her; from there she shall be taken. Their arrows are like the arrows of a skilled warrior who does not return empty-handed.

Jeremiah 51:12

Raise a standard against the walls of Babylon; make the watch strong; post sentinels; prepare the ambushes, for the Lord has both planned and done what he spoke concerning the inhabitants of Babylon.

Jeremiah 51:24

I will repay Babylon and all the inhabitants of Chaldea before your very eyes for all the wrong that they have done in Zion, says the Lord.

Jeremiah 51:35

May my torn flesh be avenged on Babylon,” the inhabitants of Zion shall say. “May my blood be avenged on the inhabitants of Chaldea,” Jerusalem shall say.

Jeremiah 51:36

Therefore thus says the Lord: I am going to defend your cause and take vengeance for you. I will dry up her sea and make her fountain dry,

Daniel 5:30

That very night Belshazzar, the Chaldean king, was killed.

Joel 3:10

Beat your plowshares into swords and your pruning hooks into spears; let the weakling say, “I am a warrior.”

Joel 3:9

Proclaim this among the nations: Consecrate yourselves for war; stir up the warriors. Let all the soldiers draw near; let them come up.

Leviticus 26:25

I will bring the sword against you, executing vengeance for the covenant, and if you withdraw into your cities, I will send pestilence among you, and you shall be delivered into enemy hands.

Zechariah 14:12

This shall be the plague with which the Lord will strike all the peoples who wage war against Jerusalem: their flesh shall rot while they are still on their feet, their eyes shall rot in their sockets, and their tongues shall rot in their mouths.

Zechariah 14:2

For I will gather all the nations against Jerusalem to battle, and the city shall be taken and the houses plundered and the women raped; half the city shall go into exile, but the rest of the people shall not be cut off from the city.