Jeremiah 51:34

New American Bible - revised edition

“He consumed me, defeated me, Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon; he left me like an empty vessel, Swallowed me like a sea monster, filled his belly with my delicacies and cast me out.

Cross References

Job 20:15

The riches he swallowed he shall vomit up; God shall make his belly disgorge them.

Psalm 74:13

You stirred up the sea by your might; you smashed the heads of the dragons on the waters.

Proverbs 1:12

Let us swallow them alive, like Sheol, whole, like those who go down to the pit!

Isaiah 34:11

But the desert owl and hoot owl shall possess it, the screech owl and raven shall dwell in it. The Lord will stretch over it the measuring line of chaos, the plumb line of confusion.

Isaiah 42:22

This is a people plundered and despoiled, all of them trapped in holes, hidden away in prisons. They are taken as plunder, with no one to rescue them, as spoil, with no one to say, “Give back!”

Jeremiah 50:17

Israel was a stray sheep that lions pursued; The king of Assyria once devoured him; now Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon gnaws his bones.

Jeremiah 50:7

Whoever happened upon them devoured them; their enemies said, “We are not guilty, Because they sinned against the Lord, the abode of justice, the hope of their ancestors.”

Jeremiah 51:44

I will punish Bel in Babylon, and make him vomit up what he swallowed; nations shall no longer stream to him. Even the wall of Babylon falls!

Jeremiah 51:49

Babylon, too, must fall, you slain of Israel, because by the hand of Babylon the slain of all the earth have fallen.

Lamentations 1:1

How solitary sits the city, once filled with people. She who was great among the nations is now like a widow. Once a princess among the provinces, now a toiling slave.

Lamentations 2:16

They open their mouths against you, all your enemies; They hiss and gnash their teeth, saying, “We have devoured her! How we have waited for this day— we have lived to see it!”

Ezekiel 36:3

therefore prophesy and say: Thus says the Lord God: because you have been ridiculed and hounded on all sides for becoming a possession for the remaining nations and have become a byword and a popular jeer,

Hosea 8:8

Israel is swallowed up; now they are among the nations, like a useless vessel.

Amos 8:4

Hear this, you who trample upon the needy and destroy the poor of the land:

Nahum 2:2

One who scatters has come up against you; guard the rampart, Watch the road, brace yourselves, marshal all your strength!

Matthew 23:13

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites. You lock the kingdom of heaven before human beings. You do not enter yourselves, nor do you allow entrance to those trying to enter. [