God remembered Noah, as well as all the wildlife and all the livestock that were with him in the ark. God caused a wind to pass over the earth, and the water began to subside.
Jeremiah 50:38 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised A drought will come on her waters, and they will be dried up. For it is a land of carved images, and they go mad because of terrifying things. , Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 A drought is upon her waters; and they shall be dried up: for it is the land of graven images, and they are mad upon their idols. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition A sword and a drought upon her waters, that they may be dried up! For it is a land of images, and they are mad over idols (objects of terror in which they foolishly trust). American Standard Version (1901) A drought is upon her waters, and they shall be dried up; for it is a land of graven images, and they are mad over idols. Common English Bible A sword against the water supplies so that they dry up. It is truly the land of idols, idols about which they have gone utterly mad! Catholic Public Domain Version A drought is over her waters, and they will be dried up. For it is a land of graven images, and they glory in portents. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version A drought upon her waters, and they shall be dried up: because it is a land of idols, and they glory in monstrous things. |
God remembered Noah, as well as all the wildlife and all the livestock that were with him in the ark. God caused a wind to pass over the earth, and the water began to subside.
who destroys the omens of the false prophets and makes fools of diviners; who confounds the wise and makes their knowledge foolishness;
who says to the depths of the sea, ‘Be dry,’ and I will dry up your rivers;
your mother will be utterly humiliated; she who bore you will be put to shame. Look! She will lag behind all the nations – an arid wilderness, a desert.
Announce to the nations; proclaim and raise up a signal flag; proclaim, and hide nothing. Say, ‘Babylon is captured; Bel is put to shame; Marduk is terrified.’ Her idols are put to shame; her false gods devastated.
I will punish Bel in Babylon. I will make him vomit what he swallowed. The nations will no longer stream to him; even Babylon’s wall will fall.
Therefore, look, the days are coming when I will punish Babylon’s carved images. Her entire land will suffer shame, and all her slain will lie fallen within her.
Therefore, look, the days are coming – this is the Lord’s declaration – when I will punish her carved images, and the wounded will groan throughout her land.
Babylon was a gold cup in the Lord’s hand, making the whole earth drunk. The nations drank her wine; therefore, the nations go mad.
They drank the wine and praised their gods made of gold and silver, bronze, iron, wood, and stone.
While Paul was waiting for them in Athens, he was deeply distressed when he saw that the city was full of idols.
The sixth poured out his bowl on the great river Euphrates, and its water was dried up to prepare the way for the kings from the east.
On her forehead was written a name, a mystery: Babylon the Great, the Mother of Prostitutes and of the Detestable Things of the Earth.
Then the men of the city said to Joash, ‘Bring out your son. He must die, because he tore down Baal’s altar and cut down the Asherah pole beside it.’