Jeremiah 51:53 - New Revised Standard Version

⁵³ Though Babylon should mount up to heaven, and though she should fortify her strong height, from me destroyers would come upon her, says the Lord.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁵³ Though Babylon should mount up to heaven, and though she should fortify the height of her strength, yet from me shall spoilers come unto her, saith the LORD.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁵³ Though Babylon should mount up to heaven, and though she should fortify her strong height (her lofty stronghold), yet destroyers will come upon her from Me, says the Lord.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁵³ Though Babylon should mount up to heaven, and though she should fortify the height of her strength, yet from me shall destroyers come unto her, saith Jehovah.

Common English Bible

⁵³ Even if Babylon scales the heavens and strengthens its towering defenses, the destroying armies will still come against her, at my command, declares the LORD.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁵³ If Babylon were to ascend to heaven, and establish her strength on high, her despoilers would go forth from me, says the Lord."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁵³ If Babylon should mount up to heaven and establish her strength on high: from me there should come spoilers upon her, saith the Lord.

Jeremiah 51:53 Mga Krus na Reperensya

Genesis 11:4

Then they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city, and a tower with its top in the heavens, and let us make a name for ourselves; otherwise we shall be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.”

Job 20:6

Even though they mount up high as the heavens, and their head reaches to the clouds,

Isaiah 13:17

See, I am stirring up the Medes against them, who have no regard for silver and do not delight in gold.

Isaiah 41:25

I stirred up one from the north, and he has come, from the rising of the sun he was summoned by name. He shall trample on rulers as on mortar, as the potter treads clay.

Isaiah 47:5

Sit in silence, and go into darkness, daughter Chaldea! For you shall no more be called the mistress of kingdoms.

Isaiah 47:7

You said, “I shall be mistress forever,” so that you did not lay these things to heart or remember their end.

Jeremiah 49:16

The terror you inspire and the pride of your heart have deceived you, you who live in the clefts of the rock, who hold the height of the hill. Although you make your nest as high as the eagle's, from there I will bring you down, says the Lord.

Jeremiah 50:21

Go up to the land of Merathaim; go up against her, and attack the inhabitants of Pekod and utterly destroy the last of them, says the Lord; do all that I have commanded you.

Jeremiah 50:25

The Lord has opened his armory, and brought out the weapons of his wrath, for the Lord God of hosts has a task to do in the land of the Chaldeans.

Jeremiah 50:45

Therefore hear the plan that the Lord has made against Babylon, and the purposes that he has formed against the land of the Chaldeans: Surely the little ones of the flock shall be dragged away; surely their fold shall be appalled at their fate.

Jeremiah 51:11

Sharpen the arrows! Fill the quivers! The Lord has stirred up the spirit of the kings of the Medes, because his purpose concerning Babylon is to destroy it, for that is the vengeance of the Lord, vengeance for his temple.

Jeremiah 51:25

I am against you, O destroying mountain, says the Lord, that destroys the whole earth; I will stretch out my hand against you, and roll you down from the crags, and make you a burned-out mountain.

Jeremiah 51:48

Then the heavens and the earth, and all that is in them, shall shout for joy over Babylon; for the destroyers shall come against them out of the north, says the Lord.

Jeremiah 51:56

for a destroyer has come against her, against Babylon; her warriors are taken, their bows are broken; for the Lord is a God of recompense, he will repay in full.

Jeremiah 51:58

Thus says the Lord of hosts: The broad wall of Babylon shall be leveled to the ground, and her high gates shall be burned with fire. The peoples exhaust themselves for nothing, and the nations weary themselves only for fire.

Daniel 4:30

and the king said, “Is this not magnificent Babylon, which I have built as a royal capital by my mighty power and for my glorious majesty?”

Amos 9:2

Though they dig into Sheol, from there shall my hand take them; though they climb up to heaven, from there I will bring them down.

Amos 9:4

And though they go into captivity in front of their enemies, there I will command the sword, and it shall kill them; and I will fix my eyes on them for harm and not for good.

Habakkuk 2:9

“Alas for you who get evil gain for your houses, setting your nest on high to be safe from the reach of harm!”