Jeremiah 51:30

Conservative English Version

The Babylonian soldiers have lost their strength and courage. They stay in their fortresses, unable to fight, while the enemy breaks through the city gates, then sets their homes on fire.

Cross References

Psalm 107:16

He breaks down bronze gates and shatters iron locks.

Psalm 147:13

He makes your city gates strong and blesses your people by giving them children.

Psalm 76:5

Brave warriors were robbed of what they had taken, and now they lie dead, unable to lift an arm.

Isaiah 19:16

When the LORD All-Powerful punishes Egypt with his mighty arm, the Egyptians will become terribly weak and will tremble with fear.

Isaiah 47:14

People who trust the stars are as helpless as straw in a flaming fire. No one can even keep warm, sitting by a fire that feeds only on straw.

Jeremiah 48:41

Your cities and fortresses will be captured, and your warriors gripped by fear.

Jeremiah 50:15

Attack from every side! Babylon surrenders! The enemy tears down its walls and towers. I am taking my revenge by doing to Babylon what it did to other cities.

Jeremiah 51:32

The enemy now controls the river crossings! The marshes are on fire! Your army has panicked!"

Jeremiah 51:57

I, the LORD All-Powerful, the true King, promise that the officials and advisors, the governors and leaders and the soldiers of Babylon will get drunk, fall asleep, and never wake up.

Lamentations 2:9

Zion's gates have fallen facedown on the ground; the bars that locked the gates are smashed to pieces. Her king and royal family are prisoners in foreign lands. Her priests don't teach, and her prophets don't have a message from the LORD.

Amos 1:5

I will break through the gates of Damascus. I will destroy the people of Wicked Valley and the ruler of Beth-Eden. Then the Syrians will be dragged as prisoners to Kir. I, the LORD, have spoken!

Nahum 3:13

Your army is weak. Fire has destroyed the crossbars on your city gates; now they stand wide open to your enemy.

Revelation 18:10

Her sufferings will frighten them, and they will stand at a distance and say, "Pity that great and powerful city! Pity Babylon! In a single hour her judgment has come."