Jeremiah 51:30

New American Bible - revised edition

Babylon’s warriors have ceased to fight, they remain in their strongholds; Dried up is their strength, they have become women. Burned down are their homes, broken their gates.

Cross References

Psalm 107:16

For he broke down the gates of bronze and snapped the bars of iron.

Psalm 147:13

For he has strengthened the bars of your gates, blessed your children within you.

Psalm 76:5

Terrible and awesome are you, stronger than the ancient mountains.

Isaiah 19:16

On that day the Egyptians shall be like women, trembling with fear, because of the Lord of hosts shaking his fist at them.

Isaiah 47:14

See, they are like stubble, fire consumes them; They cannot deliver themselves from the spreading flames. This is no warming ember, no fire to sit before!

Jeremiah 48:41

Cities are captured, strongholds seized: On that day the hearts of Moab’s warriors become like the heart of a woman in labor.

Jeremiah 50:15

raise the war cry against it on every side. It surrenders, its bastions fall, its walls are torn down: This is retribution from the Lord! Take retribution on her, as she has done, do to her; for she sinned against the Lord.

Jeremiah 51:32

The fords have been seized, marshes set on fire, warriors panic.

Jeremiah 51:57

I will make her princes and sages drunk, with her governors, officers, and warriors, so that they sleep an everlasting sleep, never to awaken—oracle of the King, whose name is Lord of hosts.

Lamentations 2:9

Her gates sank into the ground; he smashed her bars to bits. Her king and her princes are among the nations; instruction is wanting, Even her prophets do not obtain any vision from the Lord.

Amos 1:5

I will break the barred gate of Damascus; From the Valley of Aven I will cut off the one enthroned, And the sceptered ruler from Beth-eden; the people of Aram shall be exiled to Kir, says the Lord.

Nahum 3:13

Indeed your troops are women in your midst; To your foes are open wide the gates of your land, fire has consumed their bars.

Revelation 18:10

They will keep their distance for fear of the torment inflicted on her, and they will say: “Alas, alas, great city, Babylon, mighty city. In one hour your judgment has come.”