Jeremiah 50:14

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Take up your positions around Babylon, all you who bend the bow; shoot at her; spare no arrows, for she has sinned against the Lord.

Cross References

2 Samuel 10:9

When Joab saw that the battle was set against him both in front and in the rear, he chose some of the picked men of Israel and arrayed them against the Arameans;

Psalm 51:4

Against you, you alone, have I sinned and done what is evil in your sight, so that you are justified in your sentence and blameless when you pass judgment.

Isaiah 13:4

Listen, a tumult on the mountains as of a great multitude! Listen, an uproar of kingdoms, of nations gathering together! The Lord of hosts is mustering an army for battle.

Isaiah 5:28

their arrows are sharp; all their bows strung; their horses’ hoofs seem like flint, and their wheels like the whirlwind.

Jeremiah 46:9

Advance, O horses, and dash madly, O chariots! Let the warriors go forth: Cush and Put, who carry the shield, the Ludim, who draw the bow.

Jeremiah 49:14

I have heard tidings from the Lord, and a messenger has been sent among the nations: “Gather yourselves together and come against her, and rise up for battle!”

Jeremiah 49:35

Thus says the Lord of hosts: I am going to break the bow of Elam, the mainstay of their might,

Jeremiah 50:11

Though you rejoice, though you exult, O plunderers of my heritage, though you frisk about like a heifer on the grass and neigh like stallions,

Jeremiah 50:29

Summon archers against Babylon, all who bend the bow. Encamp all around her; let no one escape. Repay her according to her deeds; just as she has done, do to her—for she has arrogantly defied the Lord, the Holy One of Israel.

Jeremiah 50:42

They wield bow and spear; they are cruel and have no mercy. The sound of them is like the roaring sea; they ride upon horses, set in array as a warrior for battle, against you, O daughter Babylon!

Jeremiah 50:7

All who found them have devoured them, and their enemies have said, “We are not guilty, because they have sinned against the Lord, the true pasture, the Lord, the hope of their ancestors.”

Jeremiah 50:9

For I am going to stir up and bring against Babylon a company of great nations from the land of the north, and they shall array themselves against her; from there she shall be taken. Their arrows are like the arrows of a skilled warrior who does not return empty-handed.

Jeremiah 51:2

and I will send winnowers to Babylon, and they shall winnow her. They shall empty her land when they come against her from every side on the day of trouble.

Jeremiah 51:27

Raise a standard in the land; blow the trumpet among the nations; prepare the nations for war against her; summon against her the kingdoms, Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz; appoint a marshal against her; bring up horses like bristling locusts.

Jeremiah 51:3

Let not the archer bend his bow, and let him not array himself in his coat of mail. Do not spare her young men; utterly destroy her entire army.

Habakkuk 2:17

For the violence done to Lebanon will overwhelm you; the destruction of the animals will terrify you— because of human bloodshed and violence to the earth, to cities and all who live in them.

Habakkuk 2:8

Because you have plundered many nations, all who survive of the peoples shall plunder you— because of human bloodshed and violence to the earth, to cities and all who live in them.

Revelation 17:5

and on her forehead was written a name, a mystery: “Babylon the great, mother of whores and of earth’s abominations.”

1 Samuel 17:20

David rose early in the morning, left the sheep with a keeper, took the provisions, and went as Jesse had commanded him. He came to the encampment as the army was going forth to the battle line, shouting the war cry.