Jeremiah 51:62

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

and say, ‘O Lord, you yourself threatened to destroy this place so that neither humans nor animals shall live in it, and it shall be desolate forever.’

Cross References

Jeremiah 25:12

Then after seventy years are completed, I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation, the land of the Chaldeans, for their iniquity, says the Lord, making the land an everlasting waste.

Jeremiah 25:9

I am going to send for all the tribes of the north, says the Lord, even for King Nebuchadrezzar of Babylon, my servant, and I will bring them against this land and its inhabitants and against all these nations around; I will utterly destroy them and make them an object of horror and of hissing and an everlasting disgrace.

Jeremiah 33:12

Thus says the Lord of hosts: In this place that is waste, without humans or animals, and in all its towns there shall again be pasture for shepherds resting their flocks.

Jeremiah 50:12

your mother shall be utterly shamed, and she who bore you shall be disgraced. She shall be the last of the nations, a wilderness, dry land, and a desert.

Jeremiah 50:13

Because of the wrath of the Lord, she shall not be inhabited but shall be an utter desolation; everyone who passes by Babylon shall be appalled and hiss because of all her wounds.

Jeremiah 50:3

For out of the north a nation has come up against her; it shall make her land a desolation, and no one shall live in it; both humans and animals shall flee away.

Jeremiah 51:29

The land trembles and writhes, for the Lord’s purposes against Babylon stand, to make the land of Babylon a desolation, without inhabitant.

Jeremiah 51:37

and Babylon shall become a heap of ruins, a den of jackals, an object of horror and of hissing, without inhabitant.

Jeremiah 51:43

Her cities have become an object of horror, a land of drought and a desert, a land in which no one lives and through which no mortal passes.

Jeremiah 51:61

And Jeremiah said to Seraiah: “When you come to Babylon, see that you read all these words,

Ezekiel 35:9

I will make you a perpetual desolation, and your cities shall never be inhabited. Then you shall know that I am the Lord.