Jeremiah 51:34

Modern English Version

“Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon has devoured me and crushed me; he has made me an empty vessel. He has swallowed me up like a dragon; he has filled his belly with my delicacies, he has cast me out.

Cross References

Job 20:15

He has swallowed down riches, and he will vomit them up again; God will cast them out of his belly.

Psalm 74:13

You divided the sea by Your strength; You broke the heads of the sea monsters on the waters.

Proverbs 1:12

let us swallow them up alive like Sheol, and whole, like those who go down into the pit;

Isaiah 34:11

But the cormorant and the hedgehog shall possess it, the owl also and the raven shall dwell in it. And He shall stretch out on it the line of desolation, and the plumb line of emptiness.

Isaiah 42:22

But this is a people robbed and despoiled; they are all snared in holes, and they are hidden in prison houses; they are for a prey, and no one delivers, for a spoil, and no one says, “Restore them.”

Jeremiah 50:17

Israel is a scattered flock. The lions have driven him away. First the king of Assyria devoured him; and this last one who has broken his bones is Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon.

Jeremiah 50:7

All who found them have devoured them, and their adversaries said, “We are not guilty, because they have sinned against the Lord, the habitation of justice, even the Lord, the hope of their fathers.”

Jeremiah 51:44

I will punish Bel in Babylon, and I will bring forth from his mouth what he has swallowed up; and the nations will not flow together any more to him. Indeed, the wall of Babylon will fall.

Jeremiah 51:49

As Babylon has caused the slain of Israel to fall, so at Babylon the slain of all the earth will fall.

Lamentations 1:1

How lonely sits the city that was full of people! How she has become like a widow, who was once great among the nations! She who was a princess among the provinces has become a slave!

Lamentations 2:16

All your enemies have opened their mouth against you; they hiss and gnash their teeth. They say, “We have swallowed her up! Certainly this is the day that we longed for; we have found it; we have seen it.”

Ezekiel 36:3

therefore, prophesy and say: Thus says the Lord God: For good reason they have made you desolate and swallowed you up on every side so that you might become a possession to the rest of the nations, and you have been taken up on the lips of talkers and are an infamy of the people.

Hosea 8:8

Israel is swallowed up. Now they are among the nations as a vessel in which there is no pleasure.

Amos 8:4

Hear this, you who trample on the needy to make the poor of the land fail,

Nahum 2:2

For the Lord is restoring the prominence of Jacob, even the prominence of Israel, for others have certainly laid waste their vines.

Matthew 23:13

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! You shut the kingdom of heaven against men. For you neither enter yourselves, nor allow those who are entering to go in.