Jeremiah 51:1

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The Lord says, “I will cause a powerful, destructive wind to blow against Babylon and the Babylonians.

Cross References

Amos 3:6

If people hear the warning blast of a trumpet, they shake with fear. If trouble comes to a city, the Lord caused it to happen.

Hosea 13:15

Israel grows among his brothers, but a powerful east wind will come—the Lord’s wind will blow from the desert. Then his well will dry up. His spring of water will be dry. The wind will take away anything of value.

Acts 9:4

He fell to the ground and heard a voice saying to him, “Saul, Saul! Why are you persecuting me?”

Zechariah 2:8

The Lord sent me to the nations that took away your wealth. He sent me to bring you honor. And this is what the Lord All-Powerful said: “If anyone even touches you, it is as if they did it to the pupil of my eye.

Ezekiel 19:12

But the vine was pulled up by the roots, and thrown down to the ground. The hot east wind blew and dried its fruit. The strong branches broke, and they were thrown into the fire.

Jeremiah 50:33

This is what the Lord All-Powerful says: “The people of Israel and Judah are slaves. The enemy took them, and the enemy will not let Israel go.

Jeremiah 50:29

“Call for the archers. Tell them to attack Babylon. Tell them to surround the city. Don’t let anyone escape. Pay her back for the bad things she has done. Do to her what she has done to other nations. Babylon did not respect the Lord. Babylon was very rude to the Holy One of Israel. So punish Babylon.

Jeremiah 50:24

Babylon, I set a trap for you, and you were caught before you knew it. You fought against the Lord, so you were found and captured.

Jeremiah 50:21

The Lord says, “Attack the country of Merathaim! Attack the people living in Pekod! Attack them! Kill them and destroy them completely! Do everything I commanded you!

Jeremiah 50:9

I will bring many nations together from the north. This group of nations will get ready for war against Babylon. Babylon will be captured by people from the north. Those nations will shoot many arrows at Babylon. Their arrows will be like soldiers who don’t come back from war with their hands empty.

Jeremiah 49:36

I will bring the four winds against Elam. I will bring them from the four corners of the skies. I will send the people of Elam to every place on the earth where the four winds blow. Elam’s captives will be carried away to every nation.

2 Kings 19:7

Look, I will send a spirit against the king of Assyria. He will get a report warning him about a danger, so he will return to his own country. And I will cut him down with a sword in his own country.’”

Psalm 137:8

Babylon, you will be destroyed! Bless the one who pays you back for what you did to us.

Jeremiah 23:19

Now the punishment from the Lord will come like a storm. His anger will be like a tornado. It will come crashing down on the heads of those wicked people.

Isaiah 13:13

In my anger I will shake the sky, and the earth will be moved from its place.” That will happen on the day the Lord All-Powerful shows his anger.

Isaiah 14:14

I will go up to the altar above the tops of the clouds. I will be like God Most High.”

Isaiah 21:1

This is a message about the “desert by the sea”: It is coming like a storm blowing through the Negev. It is coming in from the desert, from a frightening nation.

Isaiah 47:1

“Fall down and sit in the dirt, Virgin Daughter Babylon. You have no throne, so sit on the ground, daughter of the Chaldeans. You are not the ruler now. You are no longer the beautiful young princess that people said you were.

Jeremiah 51:53

Babylon might grow until she touches the sky. Babylon might make her forts strong, but I will send people to fight against that city. And they will destroy her.” This is what the Lord said.

Jeremiah 51:60

Jeremiah had written on a scroll all the terrible things that would happen to Babylon. He had written all these things about Babylon.