Jeremiah 51:34

New Century Version

“Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has defeated and destroyed us. In the past he took our people away, and we became like an empty jar. He was like a giant snake that swallowed us. He filled his stomach with our best things. Then he spit us out.

Cross References

Jeremiah 50:17

“The people of Israel are like a flock of sheep that are scattered from being chased by lions. The first lion to eat them up was the king of Assyria. The last lion to crush their bones was Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon.”

Jeremiah 51:44

I will punish the god Bel in Babylon. I will make him spit out what he has swallowed. Nations will no longer come to Babylon; even the wall around the city will fall.

Matthew 23:13

“How terrible for you, teachers of the law and Pharisees! You are hypocrites! You close the door for people to enter the kingdom of heaven. You yourselves don’t enter, and you stop others who are trying to enter. [

Job 20:15

They have swallowed riches, but they will spit them out; God will make them vomit their riches up.

Nahum 2:2

Destroyers have destroyed God’s people and ruined their vines, but the Lord will bring back Jacob’s greatness like Israel’s greatness.

Amos 8:4

Listen to me, you who walk on helpless people, you who are trying to destroy the poor people of this country, saying,

Ezekiel 36:3

So prophesy and say: ‘This is what the Lord God says: They have made you an empty ruin and have crushed you from all around. So you became a possession of the other nations. People have talked and whispered against you.

Lamentations 2:16

All your enemies open their mouths to speak against you. They make fun and grind their teeth in anger. They say, “We have swallowed you up. This is the day we were waiting for! We have finally seen it happen.”

Lamentations 1:1

Jerusalem once was full of people, but now the city is empty. Jerusalem once was a great city among the nations, but now she is like a widow. She was like a queen of all the other cities, but now she is a slave.

Jeremiah 51:49

“Babylon must fall, because she killed people from Israel. She killed people from everywhere on earth.

Jeremiah 50:7

Whoever saw my people hurt them. And those enemies said, ‘We did nothing wrong. Those people sinned against the Lord, their true resting place, the God their fathers trusted.’

Isaiah 34:11

Birds and small animals will own that land, and owls and ravens will live there. God will make it an empty wasteland; it will have nothing left in it.

Proverbs 1:12

Let’s swallow them alive, as death does; let’s swallow them whole, as the grave does.

Psalm 74:13

You split open the sea by your power and broke the heads of the sea monster.

Hosea 8:8

Israel is eaten up; the people are mixed among the other nations and have become useless to me.

Isaiah 42:22

These people have been defeated and robbed. They are trapped in pits or locked up in prison. Like robbers, enemies have taken them away, and there is no one to save them. Enemies carried them off, and no one said, “Bring them back.”