Jeremiah 51:1

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

I, the LORD, am sending a wind to destroy the people of Babylonia and Babylon, its capital.

Cross References

2 Kings 19:7

I will upset him with rumours about what's happening in his own country. He will go back, and there I will make him die a violent death.

Psalm 137:8

Babylon, you are doomed! I pray the Lord's blessings on anyone who punishes you for what you did to us.

Isaiah 13:13

I, the LORD All-Powerful, am terribly angry— I will make the sky tremble and the earth shake loose.

Isaiah 14:14

I'll be above the clouds, just like God Most High.”

Isaiah 21:1

This is a message about a desert beside the sea: Enemies from a hostile nation attack like a whirlwind from the Southern Desert.

Isaiah 47:1

City of Babylon, you are delicate and untouched, but that will change. Surrender your royal power and sit in the dust.

Jeremiah 23:19

They are evil! So in my anger I will strike them like a violent storm.

Jeremiah 49:36

Enemies will attack from all directions, and you will be led captive to every nation on earth.

Jeremiah 50:21

The LORD said: I have told the enemies of Babylonia, “Attack the people of Merathaim and Pekod. Kill them all! Destroy their possessions!”

Jeremiah 50:24

Babylonia challenged me, the LORD God All-Powerful, but that nation doesn't know it is caught in a trap that I set.

Jeremiah 50:29

Attack Babylon, enemy archers; set up camp around the city, and don't let anyone escape. It challenged me, the holy God, so do to it what it did to other cities.

Jeremiah 50:33

You Babylonians were cruel to Israel and Judah. You took them captive, and now you refuse to let them go.

Jeremiah 50:9

In the north I am bringing great nations together. They will attack Babylon and capture it. The arrows they shoot are like the best soldiers, always finding their target.

Jeremiah 51:53

Although Babylon's walls reach to the sky, the army I send will destroy that city. I, the LORD, have spoken.

Jeremiah 51:60

Before they left, I wrote on a scroll all the terrible things that would happen to Babylon.

Ezekiel 19:12

But in anger, I pulled her up by the roots and threw her to the ground, where the scorching desert wind dried out her fruit. Her strong branches wilted and burnt up.

Hosea 13:15

No matter how much you prosper more than the other tribes, I, the LORD, will wipe you out, just as a scorching desert wind dries up streams of water. I will take away your precious treasures.

Amos 3:6

Isn't the whole city frightened when the trumpet signals an attack? Isn't it the LORD who brings disaster on a city?

Zechariah 2:8

Then the glorious LORD All-Powerful ordered me to say to the nations that had raided and robbed Zion: Zion is as precious to the LORD as are his eyes. Whatever you do to Zion, you do to him.

Acts 9:4

He fell to the ground and heard a voice that said, “Saul! Saul! Why are you so cruel to me?”