Jeremiah 51:34

New English Translation

“King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon devoured me and drove my people out. Like a monster from the deep he swallowed me. He filled his belly with my riches. He made me an empty dish. He completely cleaned me out.”

Cross References

Job 20:15

The wealth that he consumed he vomits up, God will make him throw it out of his stomach.

Psalm 74:13

You destroyed the sea by your strength; you shattered the heads of the sea monster in the water.

Proverbs 1:12

We will swallow them alive like Sheol, those full of vigor like those going down to the Pit.

Isaiah 34:11

Owls and wild animals will live there, all kinds of wild birds will settle in it. The Lord will stretch out over her the measuring line of ruin and the plumb line of destruction.

Isaiah 42:22

But these people are looted and plundered; all of them are trapped in pits and held captive in prisons. They were carried away as loot with no one to rescue them; they were carried away as plunder, and no one says, “Bring that back!”

Jeremiah 50:17

“The people of Israel are like scattered sheep which lions have chased away. First the king of Assyria devoured them. Now last of all King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon has gnawed their bones.

Jeremiah 50:7

All who encountered them devoured them. Their enemies who did this said, ‘We are not liable for punishment! For those people have sinned against the Lord, their true pasture. They have sinned against the Lord in whom their ancestors trusted.’

Jeremiah 51:44

I will punish the god Bel in Babylon. I will make him spit out what he has swallowed. The nations will not come streaming to him any longer. Indeed, the walls of Babylon will fall.”

Jeremiah 51:49

“Babylon must fall because of the Israelites she has killed, just as the earth’s mortally wounded fell because of Babylon.

Lamentations 1:1

Alas! The city once full of people now sits all alone! The prominent lady among the nations has become a widow! The princess who once ruled the provinces has become a forced laborer! ב (Bet)

Lamentations 2:16

All your enemies gloated over you. They sneered and gnashed their teeth; they said, “We have destroyed her! Ha! We have waited a long time for this day. We have lived to see it!” ע (Ayin)

Ezekiel 36:3

So prophesy and say: ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: Surely because they have made you desolate and crushed you from all directions, so that you have become the property of the rest of the nations, and have become the subject of gossip and slander among the people,

Hosea 8:8

Israel will be swallowed up among the nations; they will be like a worthless piece of pottery.

Amos 8:4

Listen to this, you who trample the needy, and do away with the destitute in the land.

Nahum 2:2

For the Lord will restore the majesty of Jacob, as well as the majesty of Israel, though their enemies have plundered them and have destroyed their fields.

Matthew 23:13

“But woe to you, experts in the law and you Pharisees, hypocrites! You keep locking people out of the kingdom of heaven! For you neither enter nor permit those trying to enter to go in.