Jeremiah 51:37

Modern English Version

Babylon will become heaps, a dwelling place for jackals, an astonishment, and a hissing, without an inhabitant.

Cross References

2 Chronicles 29:8

Therefore the wrath of the Lord has come on Judah and Jerusalem for a terror, horror, and scorn as you all can see with your own eyes.

Isaiah 14:23

I will also make it a possession for the hedgehog and pools of water, and I will sweep it with the broom of destruction, says the Lord of Hosts.

Jeremiah 18:16

to make their land desolate, and a perpetual hissing; everyone who passes by shall be astonished and shake his head.

Jeremiah 19:8

I will make this city desolate and a hissing. Everyone who passes by will be astonished and hiss because of all the wounds.

Jeremiah 25:12

It shall come to pass when seventy years are finished that I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation, says the Lord, for their iniquity, and the land of the Chaldeans, and will make it perpetual desolations.

Jeremiah 25:18

Jerusalem and the cities of Judah and the kings and the officials, to make them a desolation, an astonishment, a hissing, and a curse, as it is this day;

Jeremiah 25:9

behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, says the Lord, and Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, My servant, and will bring them against this land and its inhabitants, and against all these surrounding nations; I will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, a hissing, and perpetual desolations.

Jeremiah 29:18

I will pursue them with the sword, with famine, and with pestilence; and will make them a terror to all the kingdoms of the earth, to be a curse and an astonishment, a hissing and a reproach among all the nations where I have driven them,

Jeremiah 49:17

Also Edom will become a desolation; everyone who goes by it will be astonished, and will hiss at all its wounds.

Jeremiah 49:33

Hazor will become a dwelling for jackals and a desolation forever. No man will abide there, nor any son of man dwell in it.

Jeremiah 51:29

So the land trembles and sorrows, for the purposes of the Lord will be performed against Babylon, to make the land of Babylon a desolation without an inhabitant.

Jeremiah 9:11

I will make Jerusalem a heap of ruins and a den of jackals; and I will make the cities of Judah desolate, without an inhabitant.

Micah 6:16

You observe the statutes of Omri, and every practice of the house of Ahab, and you walk in their counsels. Therefore I will give you over to destruction, and the inhabitants to derision. You will bear the contempt of My people.

Nahum 3:6

I will throw filth on you, and make you vile, and make you a spectacle.

Zephaniah 2:15

This is the rejoicing city that dwelt securely, that said in her heart, “I am, and there is no one besides me.” How has she become a desolation, a place for beasts to lie down! Everyone who passes by her will hiss and shake his fist.

Revelation 18:2

He cried out mightily with a loud voice, saying: “ ‘Fallen! Fallen is Babylon the Great!’ She has become a dwelling place of demons, a haunt for every unclean spirit, and a haunt for every unclean and hateful bird.