Jeremiah 51:58

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

The thick walls of that city will be torn down, and its huge gates burnt. Everything that nation worked so hard to gain will go up in smoke.

Cross References

Psalm 127:1

Without the help of the LORD it is useless to build a home or to guard a city.

Isaiah 13:2

From high on a barren hill give a signal, shout the orders, and point the way to enter the gates of Babylon's proud rulers.

Isaiah 47:13

You have worn yourself out, asking for advice from those who study the stars and tell the future month after month. Go and ask them how to be saved from what will happen.

Isaiah 65:23

Their work won't be wasted, and their children won't die of dreadful diseases. I will bless their children and their grandchildren.

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 51:30

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.

Jeremiah 51:44

I will punish Marduk, the god of Babylon, and make him vomit everything he gobbled up. Then nations will no longer bring him gifts, and Babylon's walls will crumble.

Jeremiah 51:64

“This is how Babylon will sink when the LORD destroys it. Everyone in the city will die, and it won't have the strength to rise again.” Jeremiah's writing ends here.

Jeremiah 51:9

The foreigners answered, “We have already tried to treat Babylon's wounds, but they would not heal. Come on, let's all go home to our own countries. Nothing is left in Babylonia; everything is destroyed.”

Jeremiah 9:5

They wear themselves out, always looking for a new way to cheat their friends.

Lamentations 5:5

We are terribly ill-treated; we are worn out and can find no rest.

Habakkuk 2:13

But the LORD All-Powerful sends up in flames what nations and people work so hard to gain.