Jeremiah 50:9

Modern English Version

For behold, I will stir up and cause to come up against Babylon an assembly of great nations from the north country. And they shall set themselves in array against her; from there she shall be taken captive. Their arrows will be like those of a skilled warrior; no one shall return empty-handed.

Cross References

2 Samuel 1:22

From the blood of the slain, from the fat of mighty, the bow of Jonathan did not turn back, nor did the sword of Saul return empty.

Song of Solomon 3:8

all of them armed with swords and proficient in war. Each man has his sword at his thigh, because of terrors by night.

Isaiah 21:2

A grievous vision is declared to me; the treacherous one still deals treacherously, and the destroyer still destroys. Go up, O Elam. Lay siege, O Media. All her sighing I have made to cease.

Isaiah 41:25

I have raised up one from the north, and he shall come; from the rising of the sun he shall call on My name; and he shall come on princes as on mortar, and as the potter treads clay.

Jeremiah 15:14

I will make you to pass with your enemies into a land which you do not know; for a fire is kindled in My anger, which shall burn upon you.

Jeremiah 25:14

For many nations and great kings will make slaves of them, even themselves. And I will recompense them according to their deeds and according to the works of their hands.

Jeremiah 25:26

and all the kings of the north, far and near, one with another; and all the kingdoms of the earth which are upon the face of the earth, and the king of Sheshak shall drink after them.

Jeremiah 50:14

Put yourselves in battle array against Babylon all around, all you who bend the bow; shoot at her, spare no arrows, for she has sinned against the Lord.

Jeremiah 50:21

Go up against the land of Merathaim, even against it, and against the inhabitants of Pekod. Slay and utterly destroy them, says the Lord, and do according to all that I have commanded you.

Jeremiah 50:26

Come against her from the utmost border, open her storehouses; cast her up as heaps and destroy her utterly; let nothing of her be left.

Jeremiah 50:29

Call together the archers against Babylon. All you who bend the bow, encamp against it all around; let no one escape. Recompense her according to her work; according to all that she has done, do to her, for she has been proud against the Lord, against the Holy One of Israel.

Jeremiah 50:3

For out of the north there comes up a nation against her, which will make her land desolate, and no one will dwell in it. They will wander away; they will depart, both man and beast.

Jeremiah 51:11

Sharpen the arrows. Gather the shields. The Lord has raised up the spirit of the kings of the Medes. For His device is against Babylon, to destroy it; because it is the vengeance of the Lord, the vengeance of His temple.