Jeremiah 50:24 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²⁴ I set a snare for you, and you were caught, O Babylon, but you did not know it; you were discovered and seized because you challenged the Lord.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁴ I have laid a snare for thee, and thou art also taken, O Babylon, and thou wast not aware: thou art found, and also caught, because thou hast striven against the LORD.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁴ I set a trap for you, and you also were taken, O Babylon, and you did not know it; you were found and also caught because you have struggled and contended against the Lord.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁴ I have laid a snare for thee, and thou art also taken, O Babylon, and thou wast not aware: thou art found, and also caught, because thou hast striven against Jehovah.

Common English Bible

²⁴ You set a trap for others, Babylon, but you yourself were caught in it unaware; you have been found and captured because you have defied the LORD.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁴ I have ensnared you, and you have been captured, O Babylon, and you did not realize it. You have been discovered and seized, because you provoked the Lord.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁴ I have caused thee to fall into a snare and thou art taken, O Babylon: and thou wast not aware of it. Thou art found and caught, because thou hast provoked the Lord.

Jeremiah 50:24 Cross References

Job 15:25

Because they stretched out their hands against God and bid defiance to the Almighty,

Job 40:2

“Shall a faultfinder contend with the Almighty? Anyone who argues with God must respond.”

Job 40:9

Have you an arm like God, and can you thunder with a voice like his?

Job 9:4

He is wise in heart and mighty in strength; who has resisted him and succeeded?

Exodus 10:3

So Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and said to him, “Thus says the Lord, the God of the Hebrews: How long will you refuse to humble yourself before me? Let my people go, so that they may serve me.

Ecclesiastes 9:12

For no one can anticipate one’s time. Like fish taken in a cruel net or like birds caught in a snare, so mortals are snared at a time of calamity, when it suddenly falls upon them.

Isaiah 13:11

I will punish the world for its evil and the wicked for their iniquity; I will put an end to the pride of the arrogant and lay low the insolence of tyrants.

Isaiah 45:9

Woe to those who strive with their Maker, earthen vessels with the potter! Does the clay say to the one who fashions it, “What are you making”? or “Your work has no handles”?

Jeremiah 48:43

Terror, pit, and trap are before you, O inhabitants of Moab! says the Lord.

Jeremiah 48:44

Everyone who flees from the terror shall fall into the pit, and everyone who climbs out of the pit shall be caught in the trap. For I will bring these things upon Moab in the year of their punishment, says the Lord.

Jeremiah 51:57

I will make her officials and her sages drunk, also her governors, her deputies, and her warriors; they shall sleep a perpetual sleep and never wake, says the King, whose name is the Lord of hosts.

Jeremiah 51:8

Suddenly Babylon has fallen and is shattered; wail for her! Bring balm for her wound; perhaps she may be healed.

2 Thessalonians 2:4

He opposes and exalts himself above every so-called god or object of worship, so that he takes his seat in the temple of God, declaring himself to be God.