Jeremiah 51:53

Lighthouse Bible 2006

Though Babylon should mount up to heaven, and though she should fortify the height of her strength, yet from me shall destroyers come to her, says the LORD.

Cross References

Genesis 11:4

And they said, Come now, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach to heaven; and let us make us a name, so that we will not be scattered abroad on the face of the whole earth.

Job 20:6

Though his excellence should mount up to the heavens, and his head reach to the clouds;

Isaiah 13:17

Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, who shall not regard silver; and as for gold, they shall not delight in it.

Isaiah 41:25

I have raised up one from the north, and he shall come: from the rising of the sun shall he call upon my name: and he shall come upon princes as one walks upon mortar, and as the potter treads clay.

Isaiah 47:5

Sit silently, and go into darkness, O daughter of the Chaldeans: for you shall no longer be called, The lady of kingdoms.

Isaiah 47:7

And you said, I shall be a lady for ever: so that you did not take these things to heart, neither did you remember the latter end of it.

Jeremiah 49:16

Your dreadfulness has deceived you, and the pride of your heart, you who dwell in the openings in the rock, who hold the height of the hill: though you were to make your nest as high as the eagle, I will bring you down from there, says the LORD.

Jeremiah 50:21

Go up against the land of Merathaim, even against it, and against the inhabitants of Pekod: lay waste and utterly destroy after them, says the LORD, and do according to all that I have commanded you.

Jeremiah 50:25

The LORD has opened his armory, and has brought out the weapons of his indignation: for this is the work of the Lord GOD of hosts in the land of the Chaldeans.

Jeremiah 50:45

Therefore hear ye the counsel of the LORD that he has taken against Babylon; and his purposes that he has purposed against the land of the Chaldeans: Surely the least of the flock shall drag them out: surely he shall make their habitation desolate with them.

Jeremiah 51:11

Make bright the arrows; gather the shields: the LORD has raised up the spirit of the kings of the Medes: for his plan is against Babylon, to destroy it; because it is the vengeance of the LORD, vengeance for his temple.

Jeremiah 51:25

Behold, I am against you, O destroying mountain, says the LORD, which destroys all the earth: and I will stretch out my hand upon you, and roll you down from the rocks, and will make you a burnt mountain.

Jeremiah 51:48

Then the heaven and the earth, and all that is therein, shall sing for Babylon: for the destroyers shall come to her from the north, says the LORD.

Jeremiah 51:56

Because the destroyer has come upon her, even upon Babylon, and her mighty men are taken, every one of their bows is broken: for the LORD God of recompenses shall surely repay.

Jeremiah 51:58

Thus says the LORD of hosts; The broad walls of Babylon shall be completely broken, and her high gates shall be burned with fire; and the people shall labor in vain, and the community in the fire, and they shall be weary.

Daniel 4:30

The king spoke, and said, Is not this great Babylon, that I have built for the house of the kingdom by the might of my power, and for the honor of my majesty?

Amos 9:2

Though they dig into hell, from there shall my hand take them; though they climb up to heaven, from there will I bring them down:

Amos 9:4

And though they go into captivity before their enemies, there will I command the sword, and it shall slay them: and I will set my eyes upon them for evil, and not for good.

Habakkuk 2:9

Woe to him who covets with an evil covetousness for his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the power of evil!