Jeremiah 51:34

A Conservative Version

Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon has devoured me. He has crushed me. He has made me an empty vessel. He has, like a monster, swallowed me up. He has filled his stomach with my delicacies. He has cast me out.

Cross References

Jeremiah 50:17

Israel is a hunted sheep, the lions have driven him away. First, the king of Assyria devoured him, and now at last Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon has broken his bones.

Jeremiah 51:44

And I will execute judgment upon Bel in Babylon, and I will bring forth out of his mouth that which he has swallowed up. And the nations shall not flow any more to him. Yea, the wall of Babylon shall fall.

Matthew 23:13

Woe to you, scholars and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because ye close up the kingdom of the heavens ahead of men. For ye enter not in, nor do ye allow those who are entering to enter in.

Job 20:15

He has swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again. God will cast them out of his belly.

Nahum 2:2

For LORD restores the excellency of Jacob, as the excellency of Israel, for the emptiers have emptied them out, and destroyed their vine-branches.

Amos 8:4

Hear this, O ye who would swallow up a needy man, and cause the poor of the land to fail,

Ezekiel 36:3

therefore prophesy, and say, Thus says lord LORD: Because, even because they have made you desolate, and swallowed you up on every side, that ye might be a possession to the residue of the nations, and ye are taken up in the lips o

Lamentations 2:16

All thine enemies have opened their mouth wide against thee. They hiss and gnash the teeth. They say, We have swallowed her up. Certainly this is the day that we looked for. We have found, we have seen it.

Lamentations 1:1

How the city sits solitary, that was full of people! She has become as a widow, who was great among the nations! She who was a princess among the provinces has become tributary!

Jeremiah 51:49

As Babylon has caused the slain of Israel to fall, so at Babylon shall fall the slain of all the land.

Jeremiah 50:7

All who found them have devoured them, and their adversaries said, We are not guilty, because they have sinned against LORD, the habitation of righteousness, even LORD, the hope of their fathers.

Isaiah 34:11

But the pelican and the porcupine shall possess it. And the owl and the raven shall dwell in it. And he will stretch over it the line of confusion, and the plummet of emptiness.

Proverbs 1:12

Let us swallow them up alive as Sheol, and whole, as those who go down into the pit.

Psalm 74:13

Thou divided the sea by thy strength. Thou break the heads of the sea-monsters in the waters.

Hosea 8:8

Israel is swallowed up. They are now among the nations as a vessel in which no man delights.

Isaiah 42:22

But this is a people robbed and plundered. They are all of them snared in holes, and they are hid in prison-houses. They are for a prey, and none delivers, for a spoil, and none says, Restore.