Jeremiah 51:6

New Century Version

“Run away from Babylon and save your lives! Don’t stay and be killed because of Babylon’s sins. It is time for the Lord to punish Babylon; he will give Babylon the punishment she deserves.

Cross References

Psalm 94:1

The Lord is a God who punishes. God, show your greatness and punish!

Proverbs 13:20

Spend time with the wise and you will become wise, but the friends of fools will suffer.

Isaiah 48:20

My people, leave Babylon! Run from the Babylonians! Tell this news with shouts of joy to the people; spread it everywhere on earth. Say, “The Lord has saved his servants, the people of Jacob.”

Isaiah 63:4

I chose a time to punish people, and the time has come for me to save.

Jeremiah 25:14

Even the Babylonians will have to serve many nations and many great kings. I will give them the punishment they deserve for all their own hands have done.”

Jeremiah 25:16

They will drink my anger and stumble about and act like madmen because of the war I am going to send among them.”

Jeremiah 27:7

All nations will serve Nebuchadnezzar and his son and grandson. Then the time will come for Babylon to be defeated, and many nations and great kings will make Babylon their servant.

Jeremiah 46:10

“But that day belongs to the Lord God All-Powerful. At that time he will give those people the punishment they deserve. The sword will kill until it is finished, until it satisfies its thirst for their blood. The Lord God All-Powerful will offer a sacrifice in the land of the north, by the Euphrates River.

Jeremiah 48:6

Run! Run for your lives! Go like a bush being blown through the desert.

Jeremiah 50:15

Soldiers around Babylon, shout the war cry! Babylon has surrendered, her towers have fallen, and her walls have been torn down. The Lord is giving her people the punishment they deserve. You nations should give her what she deserves; do to her what she has done to others.

Jeremiah 50:28

Listen to the people running to escape the country of Babylon! They are telling Jerusalem how the Lord our God is punishing Babylon as it deserves for destroying his Temple.

Jeremiah 50:31

“Babylon, you are too proud, and I am against you,” says the Lord God All-Powerful. “The time has come for you to be punished.

Jeremiah 50:8

“Run away from Babylon, and leave the land of the Babylonians. Be like the goats that lead the flock.

Jeremiah 51:11

“Sharpen the arrows! Pick up your shields! The Lord has stirred up the kings of the Medes, because he wants to destroy Babylon. The Lord will punish them as they deserve for destroying his Temple.

Jeremiah 51:36

So this is what the Lord says: “I will soon defend you, Judah, and make sure that Babylon is punished. I will dry up Babylon’s sea and make her springs become dry.

Jeremiah 51:45

“Come out of Babylon, my people! Run for your lives! Run from the Lord’s great anger.

Jeremiah 51:50

You who have escaped being killed with swords, leave Babylon! Don’t wait! Remember the Lord in the faraway land and think about Jerusalem.”

Jeremiah 51:56

The army has come to destroy Babylon. Her soldiers have been captured, and their bows are broken, because the Lord is a God who punishes people for the evil they do. He gives them the full punishment they deserve.

Jeremiah 51:9

“Foreigners in Babylon say, ‘We tried to heal Babylon, but she cannot be healed. So let us leave her and each go to his own country. Babylon’s punishment is as high as the sky; it reaches to the clouds.’

Lamentations 3:64

Pay them back, Lord, for what they have done.

Numbers 16:26

Moses warned the people, “Move away from the tents of these evil men! Don’t touch anything of theirs, or you will be destroyed because of their sins.”

Deuteronomy 32:25

In the streets the sword will kill; in their homes there will be terror. Young men and women will die, and so will babies and gray-haired men.

Deuteronomy 32:41

I will sharpen my flashing sword, and I will take it in my hand to judge. I will punish my enemies and pay back those who hate me.

Deuteronomy 32:43

Be happy, nations, with his people, because he will repay you for the blood of his servants. He will punish his enemies, and he will remove the sin of his land and people.

1 Timothy 5:22

Think carefully before you lay your hands on anyone, and don’t share in the sins of others. Keep yourself pure.

Revelation 16:19

The great city split into three parts, and the cities of the nations were destroyed. And God remembered the sins of Babylon the Great, so he gave that city the cup filled with the wine of his terrible anger.