Quotes about Babylon
Babylon will become a heap of rubble, a haunt for jackals, an object of horror and scorn, without inhabitant.
- Jeremiah 51:37
How Sheshach has been captured! The praise of all the earth has been seized. What a horror Babylon has become among the nations!
- Jeremiah 51:41
The sea has come up over Babylon; she is covered in turbulent waves.
- Jeremiah 51:42
I will punish Bel in Babylon. I will make him spew out what he swallowed. The nations will no longer stream to him; even the wall of Babylon will fall.
- Jeremiah 51:44
Therefore, behold, the days are coming when I will punish the idols of Babylon. Her entire land will suffer shame, and all her slain will lie fallen within her.
- Jeremiah 51:47
Then heaven and earth and all that is in them will shout for joy over Babylon because the destroyers from the north will come against her,” declares the LORD.
- Jeremiah 51:48
“Babylon must fall on account of the slain of Israel, just as the slain of all the earth have fallen because of Babylon.
- Jeremiah 51:49
Even if Babylon ascends to the heavens and fortifies her lofty stronghold, the destroyers I send will come against her,” declares the LORD.
- Jeremiah 51:53
“The sound of a cry comes from Babylon, the sound of great destruction from the land of the Chaldeans!
- Jeremiah 51:54
For the LORD will destroy Babylon; He will silence her mighty voice. The waves will roar like great waters; the tumult of their voices will resound.
- Jeremiah 51:55
For a destroyer is coming against her—against Babylon. Her warriors will be captured, and their bows will be broken, for the LORD is a God of retribution; He will repay in full.
- Jeremiah 51:56
This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Babylon’s thick walls will be leveled, and her high gates consumed by fire. So the labor of the people will be for nothing; the nations will exhaust themselves to fuel the flames.”
- Jeremiah 51:58