Jeremiah 51:56 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁵⁶ for a destroyer has come against her, against Babylon; her warriors are taken; their bows are broken, for the Lord is a God of recompense; he will repay in full.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁵⁶ because the spoiler is come upon her, even upon Babylon, and her mighty men are taken, every one of their bows is broken: for the LORD God of recompences shall surely requite.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁵⁶ For the destroyer is coming upon her, upon Babylon; and her mighty warriors are taken, their bows are broken in pieces; for the Lord is a God of recompense; He will surely requite.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁵⁶ for the destroyer is come upon her, even upon Babylon, and her mighty men are taken, their bows are broken in pieces; for Jehovah is a God of recompenses, he will surely requite.

Common English Bible

⁵⁶ He certainly comes against her; the destroyer comes against Babylon. Her warriors are captured; their bows are broken. The LORD is an exacting God who repays in full.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁵⁶ For the despoiler has overwhelmed her, that is, Babylon, and her strong ones have been apprehended, and their bow has been weakened. For the Lord, the powerful revenger, will certainly repay.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁵⁶ Because the spoiler is come upon her, that is, upon Babylon, and her valiant men are taken, and their bow is weakened: because the Lord, who is a strong revenger, will surely repay.

Jeremiah 51:56 Cross References

Genesis 49:24

Yet his bow remained taut, and his arms were made agile by the hands of the Mighty One of Jacob, by the name of the Shepherd, the Rock of Israel,

Psalm 137:8

O daughter Babylon, you devastator! Happy shall they be who pay you back what you have done to us!

Psalm 37:15

their sword shall enter their own heart, and their bows shall be broken.

Psalm 46:9

He makes wars cease to the end of the earth; he breaks the bow and shatters the spear; he burns the shields with fire.

Psalm 76:3

There he broke the flashing arrows, the shield, the sword, and the weapons of war. Selah

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 34:8

For the Lord has a day of vengeance, a year of vindication for Zion’s cause.

Isaiah 35:4

Say to those who are of a fearful heart, “Be strong, do not fear! Here is your God. He will come with vengeance, with terrible recompense. He will come and save you.”

Isaiah 59:18

According to their deeds, so will he repay wrath to his adversaries, requital to his enemies; to the coastlands he will render requital.

Jeremiah 49:35

Thus says the Lord of hosts: I am going to break the bow of Elam, the mainstay of their might,

Jeremiah 50:10

Chaldea shall be plundered; all who plunder her shall be sated, says the Lord.

Jeremiah 50:36

A sword against the diviners, so that they may become fools! A sword against her warriors, so that they may be dismayed!

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 51:30

The warriors of Babylon have given up fighting; they remain in their strongholds; their strength has failed; they have become women; her buildings are set on fire; her bars are broken.

Jeremiah 51:48

Then the heavens and the earth and all that is in them shall shout for joy over Babylon, for the destroyers shall come against her out of the north, says the Lord.

Jeremiah 51:53

Though Babylon should mount up to heaven, and though she should fortify her strong height, from me destroyers would come upon her, says the Lord.

Jeremiah 51:6

Flee from the midst of Babylon; save your lives, each of you! Do not perish because of her guilt, for this is the time of the Lord’s vengeance; he is repaying her what is due.

Lamentations 3:64

Pay them back for their deeds, O Lord, according to the work of their hands!

Ezekiel 39:3

I will strike your bow from your left hand and will make your arrows drop out of your right hand.

Ezekiel 39:9

Then those who live in the towns of Israel will go out and make fires of the weapons and burn them—bucklers and shields, bows and arrows, clubs and spears—and they will make fires of them for seven years.

Amos 2:15

those who handle the bow shall not stand, and those who are swift of foot shall not save themselves, nor shall those who ride horses save their lives;

Obadiah 1:15

For the day of the Lord is near against all the nations. As you have done, it shall be done to you; your deeds shall return on your own head.

Habakkuk 2:8

Because you have plundered many nations, all who survive of the peoples shall plunder you— because of human bloodshed and violence to the earth, to cities and all who live in them.

Deuteronomy 32:35

for the day of vengeance and recompense, for the time when their foot shall slip? Because the day of their calamity is at hand; their doom comes swiftly.

2 Thessalonians 1:6

For it is indeed just of God to repay with affliction those who afflict you

Revelation 17:16

And the ten horns that you saw, they and the beast will hate the whore; they will make her desolate and naked; they will devour her flesh and burn her up with fire.

Revelation 18:20

Rejoice over her, O heaven, you saints and apostles and prophets! For God has condemned her condemnation of you.

Revelation 19:2

for his judgments are true and just; he has judged the great whore who corrupted the earth with her prostitution, and he has avenged on her the blood of his servants.”

1 Samuel 2:4

The bows of the mighty are broken, but the feeble gird on strength.