Jeremiah 50:16

Modern English Version

Cut off the sower from Babylon, and him who handles the sickle in the time of harvest. For fear of the oppressing sword everyone will turn to his people, and everyone will flee to his own land.

Cross References

Isaiah 13:14

It shall be as the chased roe, and as a sheep that no man takes up; every man shall turn to his own people and flee every one into his own land.

Jeremiah 25:38

He has left His lair as the lion; for their land is desolate because of the fierceness of the oppressor and because of His fierce anger.

Jeremiah 46:16

He made many to fall. Indeed, each one has fallen upon another. Then they said, “Arise and let us go back to our own people and to the land of our birth, away from the oppressing sword.”

Jeremiah 51:23

I will also break in pieces with you the shepherd and his flock; and with you I will break in pieces the farmer and his yoke of oxen; and with you I will break in pieces captains and rulers.

Jeremiah 51:9

We applied healing to Babylon, but she is not healed. Forsake her, and let us each go into his own country; for her judgment reaches to heaven and is lifted up even to the skies.

Joel 1:11

Despair, fieldworkers; wail, vinedressers, for the wheat and the barley, because the harvest of the field has perished.

Amos 5:16

Therefore thus says the Lord, the God of Hosts, the Lord: Wailing will be in all the squares, and in all the streets they will say, “Alas! Alas!” They shall call the farmer to mourning, and to wailing those skilled in lamentation.