Jeremiah 50:12 - The Scriptures 1998

¹² your mother shall be greatly ashamed. She who bore you shall be humiliated. Look, the last of the nations, a wilderness, a dry land and a desert.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹² your mother shall be sore confounded; she that bare you shall be ashamed: behold, the hindermost of the nations shall be a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹² Your mother [Babylon] shall be put to great shame; she who bore you shall blush and be disgraced. Behold, she shall be at the rear of the nations [least of the nations]–a wilderness, waste, and desert.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹² your mother shall be utterly put to shame; she that bare you shall be confounded: behold, she shall be the hindermost of the nations, a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert.

Common English Bible

¹² But Mother Babylon will be humiliated; the one who bore you will be disgraced. She will become the least of the nations: a wilderness, a desert, and parched land.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹² Your mother has been exceedingly shamed, and she who bore you has become equal to the dust. Behold, she will be the last among the nations, a desert, impassable and dry.

Jeremiah 50:12 Cross References

Isaiah 14:22

“And I shall rise up against them,” declares יהוה  of hosts, “and shall cut off from Baḇ

Isaiah 23:13

See the land of the Chaldeans – this people did not exist. Ashshur founded it for wild beasts of the desert. They set up their siege-towers, they demolished her palaces, and made her a ruin.

Jeremiah 12:14

Thus said יהוה, “As for all My evil neighbours who touch the inheritance which I have caused My people Yisra’ĕ

Jeremiah 15:9

“She who has borne seven shall pine away. She shall breathe her last. Her sun shall go down while it is yet day. She shall be put to shame and be humiliated. And their remnant I give up to the sword before their enemies,” declares יהוה.

Jeremiah 22:6

For thus said יהוה  to the house of the sovereign of Yehuḏ

Jeremiah 25:12

‘And it shall be, when seventy years are completed, that I shall punish the sovereign of Baḇ

Jeremiah 25:26

and all the sovereigns of the north, far and near, one with another, and all the reigns of the earth which are on the face of the ground. Also the sovereign of Shĕ

Jeremiah 49:2

“Therefore see, the days are coming,” declares יהוה, “when I shall sound a battle cry in Rabbah of the Ammonites. And it shall be a heap, a wasteland, and her villages shall be burned with fire. Then Yisra’ĕ

Jeremiah 51:43

“Her cities have become a ruin, a dry land and a desert, a land where no one dwells, neither does son of man pass by it.

Jeremiah 51:47

therefore see, the days are coming that I shall bring punishment on the carved images of Baḇ

Galatians 4:26

But the Yerushalayim above is free, which is the mother of us all.

Revelation 17:5

and upon her forehead a name written, a secret: BAḆ