Jeremiah 51:30

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Interconfessional

The warriors of Babylon have given up fighting, they remain in their strongholds; their strength has failed, they have become women; her buildings are set on fire, her bars are broken.

Cross References

Psalm 107:16

For he shatters the doors of bronze, and cuts in two the bars of iron.

Psalm 147:13

For he strengthens the bars of your gates; he blesses your children within you.

Psalm 76:5

The stouthearted were stripped of their spoil; they sank into sleep; none of the troops was able to lift a hand.

Isaiah 19:16

On that day the Egyptians will be like women, and tremble with fear before the hand that the Lord of hosts raises against them.

Isaiah 47:14

See, they are like stubble, the fire consumes them; they cannot deliver themselves from the power of the flame. No coal for warming oneself is this, no fire to sit before!

Jeremiah 48:41

the towns shall be taken and the strongholds seized. The hearts of the warriors of Moab, on that day, shall be like the heart of a woman in labor.

Jeremiah 50:15

Raise a shout against her from all sides, “She has surrendered; her bulwarks have fallen, her walls are thrown down.” For this is the vengeance of the Lord: take vengeance on her, do to her as she has done.

Jeremiah 51:32

the fords have been seized, the marshes have been burned with fire, and the soldiers are in panic.

Jeremiah 51:57

I will make her officials and her sages drunk, also her governors, her deputies, and her warriors; they shall sleep a perpetual sleep and never wake, says the King, whose name is the Lord of hosts.

Lamentations 2:9

Her gates have sunk into the ground; he has ruined and broken her bars; her king and princes are among the nations; guidance is no more, and her prophets obtain no vision from the Lord.

Amos 1:5

I will break the gate bars of Damascus, and cut off the inhabitants from the Valley of Aven, and the one who holds the scepter from Beth-eden; and the people of Aram shall go into exile to Kir, says the Lord.

Nahum 3:13

Look at your troops: they are women in your midst. The gates of your land are wide open to your foes; fire has devoured the bars of your gates.

Revelation 18:10

they will stand far off, in fear of her torment, and say, “Alas, alas, the great city, Babylon, the mighty city! For in one hour your judgment has come.”