Jeremiah 51:53

Modern English Version

Though Babylon should mount up to heaven, and though she should fortify the height of her strength, yet from Me will destroyers come to her, says the Lord.

Cross References

Genesis 11:4

Then they said, “Come, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top will reach to heaven, and let us make a name for ourselves; otherwise we will be scattered abroad over the face of the whole earth.”

Job 20:6

Though his loftiness extends to the heavens, and his head reaches 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 he shall call on My name; and he shall come on princes as on 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 more be called the queen of kingdoms.

Isaiah 47:7

You said, “I shall be a queen forever,” but you did not take these things to heart, nor remember the outcome of them.

Jeremiah 49:16

As for the terror of you, the pride of your heart has deceived you, O you who dwell in the clefts of the rock, who hold the height of the hill. Though you 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. Slay and utterly destroy 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 the counsel of the Lord that He has planned against Babylon, and His purposes that He has purposed against the land of the Chaldeans: Surely the least of the flock will drag them out. Surely He will make their habitation desolate because of them.

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.

Jeremiah 51:25

Behold, I am against you, O destroying mountain, says the Lord, who destroys all the earth. And I will stretch out My hand against you, and roll you down from the rocks, and will make you a burned mountain.

Jeremiah 51:48

Then the heaven and the earth, and all that is in it, shall sing for joy over Babylon; for the destroyers will come to her from the north, says the Lord.

Jeremiah 51:56

Because the destroyer is coming against her, even upon Babylon, and her mighty men will be captured, every one of their bows are broken. For the Lord is a God of recompense; He will completely repay.

Jeremiah 51:58

Thus says the Lord of Hosts: The broad wall of Babylon will be utterly broken, and her high gates will be burned with fire; and the peoples will labor in vain, and the nations become exhausted only for fire.

Daniel 4:30

The king spoke, saying, “Is this not Babylon the Great that I myself have built as a royal residence by my mighty power and for the honor of my majesty?”

Amos 9:2

Though they dig down to Sheol, from there My hand will capture them; though they climb up to the heavens, from there I will bring them down;

Amos 9:4

and though they go into captivity before their enemies, from there will I command the sword to slay them. I will set My eyes upon them for evil and not for good.

Habakkuk 2:9

“Woe to him who gets evil gain for his house, to set his nest on high, to be delivered from the power of calamity!”