Quotes about Destruction
With you I shatter the horse and rider; with you I shatter the chariot and driver.
- Jeremiah 51:21
With you I shatter man and woman; with you I shatter the old man and the youth; with you I shatter the young man and the maiden.
- Jeremiah 51:22
With you I shatter the shepherd and his flock; with you I shatter the farmer and his oxen; with you I shatter the governors and officials.
- Jeremiah 51:23
“Behold, I am against you, O destroying mountain, you who devastate the whole earth, declares the LORD. I will stretch out My hand against you; I will roll you over the cliffs and turn you into a charred mountain.
- Jeremiah 51:25
No one shall retrieve from you a cornerstone or a foundation stone, because you will become desolate forever,” declares the LORD.
- Jeremiah 51:26
The fords have been seized, the marshes set on fire, and the soldiers are terrified.”
- Jeremiah 51:32
“Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has devoured me; he has crushed me. He has set me aside like an empty vessel; he has swallowed me like a monster; he filled his belly with my delicacies and vomited me out.
- Jeremiah 51:34
Babylon will become a heap of rubble, a haunt for jackals, an object of horror and scorn, without inhabitant.
- Jeremiah 51:37
While they are flushed with heat, I will serve them a feast, and I will make them drunk so that they may revel; then they will fall asleep forever and never wake up, declares the LORD.
- Jeremiah 51:39
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