Jeremiah 50:12

New Century Version

Your mother will be very ashamed; the woman who gave birth to you will be disgraced. Soon Babylonia will be the least important of all the nations. She will be an empty, dry desert.

Cross References

Isaiah 14:22

The Lord All-Powerful says this: “I will fight against those people; I will destroy Babylon and its people, its children and their descendants,” says the Lord.

Isaiah 23:13

Look at the land of the Babylonians; it is not a country now. Assyria has made it a place for wild animals. Assyria built towers to attack it; the soldiers took all the treasures from its cities, and they turned it into ruins.

Jeremiah 12:14

This is what the Lord said to me: “Here is what I will do to all my wicked neighbors who take the land I gave my people Israel. I will pull them up and throw them out of their land. And I will pull up the people of Judah from among them.

Jeremiah 15:9

When the enemy attacked, a woman with seven sons felt faint because they would all die. She became weak and unable to breathe. Her bright day became dark from sadness. She felt shame and disgrace. And everyone else left alive in Judah I will hand over to the enemies, too!” says the Lord.

Jeremiah 22:6

This is what the Lord says about the palace where the king of Judah lives: “You are tall like the forests of Gilead, like the mountaintops of Lebanon. But I will truly make you into a desert, into towns where no one lives.

Jeremiah 25:12

“But when the seventy years have passed, I will punish the king of Babylon and his entire nation for their evil,” says the Lord. “I will make that land a desert forever.

Jeremiah 25:26

and all the kings of the north, near and far, one after the other. I made all the kingdoms on earth drink from the cup of the Lord’s anger, but the king of Babylon will drink from this cup after all the others.

Jeremiah 49:2

The Lord says, “The time will come when I will make Rabbah, the capital city of the Ammonites, hear the battle cry. It will become a hill covered with ruins, and the towns around it will be burned. Those people forced Israel out of that land, but now Israel will force them out!” says the Lord.

Jeremiah 51:43

Babylon’s towns are ruined and empty. It has become a dry, desert land, a land where no one lives. People do not even travel through Babylon.

Jeremiah 51:47

The time will surely come when I will punish the idols of Babylon, and the whole land will be disgraced. There will be many dead people lying all around.

Galatians 4:26

But the heavenly Jerusalem, which is above, is like the free woman. She is our mother.

Revelation 17:5

On her forehead a title was written that was secret. This is what was written: the great babylon mother of prostitutes and of the evil things of the earth