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13:1 NLT
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  • New Living Translation - Isaiah son of Amoz received this message concerning the destruction of Babylon:
  • 新标点和合本 - 亚摩斯的儿子以赛亚得默示,论巴比伦。
  • 和合本2010(上帝版-简体) - 亚摩斯的儿子以赛亚所见,有关巴比伦的默示。
  • 和合本2010(神版-简体) - 亚摩斯的儿子以赛亚所见,有关巴比伦的默示。
  • 当代译本 - 以下是亚摩斯的儿子以赛亚有关巴比伦的预言:
  • 圣经新译本 - 亚摩斯的儿子以赛亚得到关于巴比伦的默示:
  • 中文标准译本 - 亚摩斯的儿子以赛亚所见的默示,是关于巴比伦的:
  • 现代标点和合本 - 亚摩斯的儿子以赛亚得默示论巴比伦。
  • 和合本(拼音版) - 亚摩斯的儿子以赛亚得默示,论巴比伦。
  • New International Version - A prophecy against Babylon that Isaiah son of Amoz saw:
  • New International Reader's Version - Here is the prophecy against Babylon that Isaiah, the son of Amoz, saw.
  • English Standard Version - The oracle concerning Babylon which Isaiah the son of Amoz saw.
  • The Message - The Message on Babylon. Isaiah son of Amoz saw it:
  • Christian Standard Bible - A pronouncement concerning Babylon that Isaiah son of Amoz saw:
  • New American Standard Bible - The pronouncement concerning Babylon which Isaiah the son of Amoz saw:
  • New King James Version - The burden against Babylon which Isaiah the son of Amoz saw.
  • Amplified Bible - The [mournful, inspired] oracle ( a burden to be carried) concerning Babylon which Isaiah the son of Amoz saw [in a prophetic vision]:
  • American Standard Version - The burden of Babylon, which Isaiah the son of Amoz did see.
  • King James Version - The burden of Babylon, which Isaiah the son of Amoz did see.
  • New English Translation - This is a message about Babylon that God revealed to Isaiah son of Amoz:
  • World English Bible - The burden of Babylon, which Isaiah the son of Amoz saw.
  • 新標點和合本 - 亞摩斯的兒子以賽亞得默示,論巴比倫。
  • 和合本2010(上帝版-繁體) - 亞摩斯的兒子以賽亞所見,有關巴比倫的默示。
  • 和合本2010(神版-繁體) - 亞摩斯的兒子以賽亞所見,有關巴比倫的默示。
  • 當代譯本 - 以下是亞摩斯的兒子以賽亞有關巴比倫的預言:
  • 聖經新譯本 - 亞摩斯的兒子以賽亞得到關於巴比倫的默示:
  • 呂振中譯本 - 亞摩斯 的兒子 以賽亞 所見到關於 巴比倫 的神託之言。
  • 中文標準譯本 - 亞摩斯的兒子以賽亞所見的默示,是關於巴比倫的:
  • 現代標點和合本 - 亞摩斯的兒子以賽亞得默示論巴比倫。
  • 文理和合譯本 - 亞摩斯子以賽亞、所見論巴比倫之預示、○
  • 文理委辦譯本 - 亞麼士子以賽亞、以巴比倫之事、得之默示者、筆於書云、
  • 施約瑟淺文理新舊約聖經 - 亞摩斯 子 以賽亞 得默示、預言論 巴比倫 曰、
  • Nueva Versión Internacional - Profecía contra Babilonia que recibió Isaías hijo de Amoz:
  • 현대인의 성경 - 이것은 아모스의 아들 이사야가 바빌론에 대하여 하나님께 받은 말씀이다:
  • Новый Русский Перевод - Пророчество о Вавилоне, которое видел Исаия, сын Амоца.
  • Восточный перевод - Пророчество о Вавилоне, которое видел Исаия, сын Амоца.
  • Восточный перевод, версия с «Аллахом» - Пророчество о Вавилоне, которое видел Исаия, сын Амоца.
  • Восточный перевод, версия для Таджикистана - Пророчество о Вавилоне, которое видел Исаия, сын Амоца.
  • La Bible du Semeur 2015 - Menace sur Babylone, révélée à Esaïe, fils d’Amots.
  • リビングバイブル - 以下は、神がアモツの子イザヤに示したバビロン滅亡の幻です。
  • Nova Versão Internacional - Advertência contra a Babilônia, que Isaías, filho de Amoz, recebeu em visão:
  • Hoffnung für alle - Dies ist die Botschaft über die Stadt Babylon, die der Prophet Jesaja, der Sohn von Amoz, in einer Vision vom Herrn empfing:
  • Kinh Thánh Hiện Đại - Y-sai, con A-mốt nhận được sứ điệp về sự suy vong của Ba-by-lôn:
  • พระคริสตธรรมคัมภีร์ไทย ฉบับอมตธรรมร่วมสมัย - พระดำรัสเกี่ยวกับบาบิโลนซึ่งอิสยาห์บุตรอาโมศได้รับ
  • พระคัมภีร์ ฉบับแปลใหม่ - คำ​พยากรณ์​เกี่ยว​กับ​บาบิโลน ซึ่ง​อิสยาห์​บุตร​อามอส​เห็น
Cross Reference
  • Zechariah 12:1 - This message concerning the fate of Israel came from the Lord: “This message is from the Lord, who stretched out the heavens, laid the foundations of the earth, and formed the human spirit.
  • Jeremiah 23:33 - “Suppose one of the people or one of the prophets or priests asks you, ‘What prophecy has the Lord burdened you with now?’ You must reply, ‘You are the burden! The Lord says he will abandon you!’
  • Jeremiah 23:34 - “If any prophet, priest, or anyone else says, ‘I have a prophecy from the Lord,’ I will punish that person along with his entire family.
  • Jeremiah 23:35 - You should keep asking each other, ‘What is the Lord’s answer?’ or ‘What is the Lord saying?’
  • Jeremiah 23:36 - But stop using this phrase, ‘prophecy from the Lord.’ For people are using it to give authority to their own ideas, turning upside down the words of our God, the living God, the Lord of Heaven’s Armies.
  • Jeremiah 23:37 - “This is what you should say to the prophets: ‘What is the Lord’s answer?’ or ‘What is the Lord saying?’
  • Jeremiah 23:38 - But suppose they respond, ‘This is a prophecy from the Lord!’ Then you should say, ‘This is what the Lord says: Because you have used this phrase, “prophecy from the Lord,” even though I warned you not to use it,
  • Habakkuk 1:1 - This is the message that the prophet Habakkuk received in a vision.
  • Isaiah 22:1 - This message came to me concerning Jerusalem—the Valley of Vision : What is happening? Why is everyone running to the rooftops?
  • Zechariah 9:1 - This is the message from the Lord against the land of Aram and the city of Damascus, for the eyes of humanity, including all the tribes of Israel, are on the Lord.
  • Nahum 1:1 - This message concerning Nineveh came as a vision to Nahum, who lived in Elkosh.
  • Isaiah 19:1 - This message came to me concerning Egypt: Look! The Lord is advancing against Egypt, riding on a swift cloud. The idols of Egypt tremble. The hearts of the Egyptians melt with fear.
  • Isaiah 43:14 - This is what the Lord says—your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: “For your sakes I will send an army against Babylon, forcing the Babylonians to flee in those ships they are so proud of.
  • Isaiah 17:1 - This message came to me concerning Damascus: “Look, the city of Damascus will disappear! It will become a heap of ruins.
  • Isaiah 21:13 - This message came to me concerning Arabia: O caravans from Dedan, hide in the deserts of Arabia.
  • Isaiah 44:1 - “But now, listen to me, Jacob my servant, Israel my chosen one.
  • Isaiah 44:2 - The Lord who made you and helps you says: Do not be afraid, O Jacob, my servant, O dear Israel, my chosen one.
  • Malachi 1:1 - This is the message that the Lord gave to Israel through the prophet Malachi.
  • Ezekiel 12:10 - Say to them, ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: These actions contain a message for King Zedekiah in Jerusalem and for all the people of Israel.’
  • Jeremiah 25:12 - “Then, after the seventy years of captivity are over, I will punish the king of Babylon and his people for their sins,” says the Lord. “I will make the country of the Babylonians a wasteland forever.
  • Jeremiah 25:13 - I will bring upon them all the terrors I have promised in this book—all the penalties announced by Jeremiah against the nations.
  • Jeremiah 25:14 - Many nations and great kings will enslave the Babylonians, just as they enslaved my people. I will punish them in proportion to the suffering they cause my people.”
  • Jeremiah 25:15 - This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, said to me: “Take from my hand this cup filled to the brim with my anger, and make all the nations to whom I send you drink from it.
  • Jeremiah 25:16 - When they drink from it, they will stagger, crazed by the warfare I will send against them.”
  • Jeremiah 25:17 - So I took the cup of anger from the Lord and made all the nations drink from it—every nation to which the Lord sent me.
  • Jeremiah 25:18 - I went to Jerusalem and the other towns of Judah, and their kings and officials drank from the cup. From that day until this, they have been a desolate ruin, an object of horror, contempt, and cursing.
  • Jeremiah 25:19 - I gave the cup to Pharaoh, king of Egypt, his attendants, his officials, and all his people,
  • Jeremiah 25:20 - along with all the foreigners living in that land. I also gave it to all the kings of the land of Uz and the kings of the Philistine cities of Ashkelon, Gaza, Ekron, and what remains of Ashdod.
  • Jeremiah 25:21 - Then I gave the cup to the nations of Edom, Moab, and Ammon,
  • Jeremiah 25:22 - and the kings of Tyre and Sidon, and the kings of the regions across the sea.
  • Jeremiah 25:23 - I gave it to Dedan, Tema, and Buz, and to the people who live in distant places.
  • Jeremiah 25:24 - I gave it to the kings of Arabia, the kings of the nomadic tribes of the desert,
  • Jeremiah 25:25 - and to the kings of Zimri, Elam, and Media.
  • Jeremiah 25:26 - And I gave it to the kings of the northern countries, far and near, one after the other—all the kingdoms of the world. And finally, the king of Babylon himself drank from the cup of the Lord’s anger.
  • Isaiah 21:1 - This message came to me concerning Babylon—the desert by the sea : Disaster is roaring down on you from the desert, like a whirlwind sweeping in from the Negev.
  • Isaiah 21:2 - I see a terrifying vision: I see the betrayer betraying, the destroyer destroying. Go ahead, you Elamites and Medes, attack and lay siege. I will make an end to all the groaning Babylon caused.
  • Isaiah 21:3 - My stomach aches and burns with pain. Sharp pangs of anguish are upon me, like those of a woman in labor. I grow faint when I hear what God is planning; I am too afraid to look.
  • Isaiah 21:4 - My mind reels and my heart races. I longed for evening to come, but now I am terrified of the dark.
  • Isaiah 21:5 - Look! They are preparing a great feast. They are spreading rugs for people to sit on. Everyone is eating and drinking. But quick! Grab your shields and prepare for battle. You are being attacked!
  • Isaiah 21:6 - Meanwhile, the Lord said to me, “Put a watchman on the city wall. Let him shout out what he sees.
  • Isaiah 21:7 - He should look for chariots drawn by pairs of horses, and for riders on donkeys and camels. Let the watchman be fully alert.”
  • Isaiah 21:8 - Then the watchman called out, “Day after day I have stood on the watchtower, my lord. Night after night I have remained at my post.
  • Isaiah 21:9 - Now at last—look! Here comes a man in a chariot with a pair of horses!” Then the watchman said, “Babylon is fallen, fallen! All the idols of Babylon lie broken on the ground!”
  • Isaiah 21:10 - O my people, threshed and winnowed, I have told you everything the Lord of Heaven’s Armies has said, everything the God of Israel has told me.
  • Isaiah 21:11 - This message came to me concerning Edom : Someone from Edom keeps calling to me, “Watchman, how much longer until morning? When will the night be over?”
  • Isaiah 14:28 - This message came to me the year King Ahaz died:
  • Daniel 5:28 - Parsin means ‘divided’—your kingdom has been divided and given to the Medes and Persians.”
  • Isaiah 15:1 - This message came to me concerning Moab: In one night the town of Ar will be leveled, and the city of Kir will be destroyed.
  • Daniel 5:6 - and his face turned pale with fright. His knees knocked together in fear and his legs gave way beneath him.
  • Isaiah 14:4 - you will taunt the king of Babylon. You will say, “The mighty man has been destroyed. Yes, your insolence is ended.
  • Isaiah 14:5 - For the Lord has crushed your wicked power and broken your evil rule.
  • Isaiah 14:6 - You struck the people with endless blows of rage and held the nations in your angry grip with unrelenting tyranny.
  • Isaiah 14:7 - But finally the earth is at rest and quiet. Now it can sing again!
  • Isaiah 14:8 - Even the trees of the forest— the cypress trees and the cedars of Lebanon— sing out this joyous song: ‘Since you have been cut down, no one will come now to cut us down!’
  • Isaiah 14:9 - “In the place of the dead there is excitement over your arrival. The spirits of world leaders and mighty kings long dead stand up to see you.
  • Isaiah 14:10 - With one voice they all cry out, ‘Now you are as weak as we are!
  • Isaiah 14:11 - Your might and power were buried with you. The sound of the harp in your palace has ceased. Now maggots are your sheet, and worms your blanket.’
  • Isaiah 14:12 - “How you are fallen from heaven, O shining star, son of the morning! You have been thrown down to the earth, you who destroyed the nations of the world.
  • Isaiah 14:13 - For you said to yourself, ‘I will ascend to heaven and set my throne above God’s stars. I will preside on the mountain of the gods far away in the north.
  • Isaiah 14:14 - I will climb to the highest heavens and be like the Most High.’
  • Isaiah 14:15 - Instead, you will be brought down to the place of the dead, down to its lowest depths.
  • Isaiah 14:16 - Everyone there will stare at you and ask, ‘Can this be the one who shook the earth and made the kingdoms of the world tremble?
  • Isaiah 14:17 - Is this the one who destroyed the world and made it into a wasteland? Is this the king who demolished the world’s greatest cities and had no mercy on his prisoners?’
  • Isaiah 14:18 - “The kings of the nations lie in stately glory, each in his own tomb,
  • Isaiah 14:19 - but you will be thrown out of your grave like a worthless branch. Like a corpse trampled underfoot, you will be dumped into a mass grave with those killed in battle. You will descend to the pit.
  • Isaiah 14:20 - You will not be given a proper burial, for you have destroyed your nation and slaughtered your people. The descendants of such an evil person will never again receive honor.
  • Isaiah 14:21 - Kill this man’s children! Let them die because of their father’s sins! They must not rise and conquer the earth, filling the world with their cities.”
  • Isaiah 14:22 - This is what the Lord of Heaven’s Armies says: “I, myself, have risen against Babylon! I will destroy its children and its children’s children,” says the Lord.
  • Isaiah 14:23 - “I will make Babylon a desolate place of owls, filled with swamps and marshes. I will sweep the land with the broom of destruction. I, the Lord of Heaven’s Armies, have spoken!”
  • Isaiah 13:19 - Babylon, the most glorious of kingdoms, the flower of Chaldean pride, will be devastated like Sodom and Gomorrah when God destroyed them.
  • Revelation 17:1 - One of the seven angels who had poured out the seven bowls came over and spoke to me. “Come with me,” he said, “and I will show you the judgment that is going to come on the great prostitute, who rules over many waters.
  • Revelation 17:2 - The kings of the world have committed adultery with her, and the people who belong to this world have been made drunk by the wine of her immorality.”
  • Revelation 17:3 - So the angel took me in the Spirit into the wilderness. There I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast that had seven heads and ten horns, and blasphemies against God were written all over it.
  • Revelation 17:4 - The woman wore purple and scarlet clothing and beautiful jewelry made of gold and precious gems and pearls. In her hand she held a gold goblet full of obscenities and the impurities of her immorality.
  • Revelation 17:5 - A mysterious name was written on her forehead: “Babylon the Great, Mother of All Prostitutes and Obscenities in the World.”
  • Revelation 17:6 - I could see that she was drunk—drunk with the blood of God’s holy people who were witnesses for Jesus. I stared at her in complete amazement.
  • Revelation 17:7 - “Why are you so amazed?” the angel asked. “I will tell you the mystery of this woman and of the beast with seven heads and ten horns on which she sits.
  • Revelation 17:8 - The beast you saw was once alive but isn’t now. And yet he will soon come up out of the bottomless pit and go to eternal destruction. And the people who belong to this world, whose names were not written in the Book of Life before the world was made, will be amazed at the reappearance of this beast who had died.
  • Revelation 17:9 - “This calls for a mind with understanding: The seven heads of the beast represent the seven hills where the woman rules. They also represent seven kings.
  • Revelation 17:10 - Five kings have already fallen, the sixth now reigns, and the seventh is yet to come, but his reign will be brief.
  • Revelation 17:11 - “The scarlet beast that was, but is no longer, is the eighth king. He is like the other seven, and he, too, is headed for destruction.
  • Revelation 17:12 - The ten horns of the beast are ten kings who have not yet risen to power. They will be appointed to their kingdoms for one brief moment to reign with the beast.
  • Revelation 17:13 - They will all agree to give him their power and authority.
  • Revelation 17:14 - Together they will go to war against the Lamb, but the Lamb will defeat them because he is Lord of all lords and King of all kings. And his called and chosen and faithful ones will be with him.”
  • Revelation 17:15 - Then the angel said to me, “The waters where the prostitute is ruling represent masses of people of every nation and language.
  • Revelation 17:16 - The scarlet beast and his ten horns all hate the prostitute. They will strip her naked, eat her flesh, and burn her remains with fire.
  • Revelation 17:17 - For God has put a plan into their minds, a plan that will carry out his purposes. They will agree to give their authority to the scarlet beast, and so the words of God will be fulfilled.
  • Revelation 17:18 - And this woman you saw in your vision represents the great city that rules over the kings of the world.”
  • Jeremiah 50:1 - The Lord gave Jeremiah the prophet this message concerning Babylon and the land of the Babylonians.
  • Jeremiah 50:2 - This is what the Lord says: “Tell the whole world, and keep nothing back. Raise a signal flag to tell everyone that Babylon will fall! Her images and idols will be shattered. Her gods Bel and Marduk will be utterly disgraced.
  • Jeremiah 50:3 - For a nation will attack her from the north and bring such destruction that no one will live there again. Everything will be gone; both people and animals will flee.
  • Jeremiah 50:4 - “In those coming days,” says the Lord, “the people of Israel will return home together with the people of Judah. They will come weeping and seeking the Lord their God.
  • Jeremiah 50:5 - They will ask the way to Jerusalem and will start back home again. They will bind themselves to the Lord with an eternal covenant that will never be forgotten.
  • Jeremiah 50:6 - “My people have been lost sheep. Their shepherds have led them astray and turned them loose in the mountains. They have lost their way and can’t remember how to get back to the sheepfold.
  • Jeremiah 50:7 - All who found them devoured them. Their enemies said, ‘We did nothing wrong in attacking them, for they sinned against the Lord, their true place of rest, and the hope of their ancestors.’
  • Jeremiah 50:8 - “But now, flee from Babylon! Leave the land of the Babylonians. Like male goats at the head of the flock, lead my people home again.
  • Jeremiah 50:9 - For I am raising up an army of great nations from the north. They will join forces to attack Babylon, and she will be captured. The enemies’ arrows will go straight to the mark; they will not miss!
  • Jeremiah 50:10 - Babylonia will be looted until the attackers are glutted with loot. I, the Lord, have spoken!
  • Jeremiah 50:11 - “You rejoice and are glad, you who plundered my chosen people. You frisk about like a calf in a meadow and neigh like a stallion.
  • Jeremiah 50:12 - But your homeland will be overwhelmed with shame and disgrace. You will become the least of nations— a wilderness, a dry and desolate land.
  • Jeremiah 50:13 - Because of the Lord’s anger, Babylon will become a deserted wasteland. All who pass by will be horrified and will gasp at the destruction they see there.
  • Jeremiah 50:14 - “Yes, prepare to attack Babylon, all you surrounding nations. Let your archers shoot at her; spare no arrows. For she has sinned against the Lord.
  • Jeremiah 50:15 - Shout war cries against her from every side. Look! She surrenders! Her walls have fallen. It is the Lord’s vengeance, so take vengeance on her. Do to her as she has done to others!
  • Jeremiah 50:16 - Take from Babylon all those who plant crops; send all the harvesters away. Because of the sword of the enemy, everyone will run away and rush back to their own lands.
  • Jeremiah 50:17 - “The Israelites are like sheep that have been scattered by lions. First the king of Assyria ate them up. Then King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon cracked their bones.”
  • Jeremiah 50:18 - Therefore, this is what the Lord of Heaven’s Armies, the God of Israel, says: “Now I will punish the king of Babylon and his land, just as I punished the king of Assyria.
  • Jeremiah 50:19 - And I will bring Israel home again to its own land, to feed in the fields of Carmel and Bashan, and to be satisfied once more in the hill country of Ephraim and Gilead.
  • Jeremiah 50:20 - In those days,” says the Lord, “no sin will be found in Israel or in Judah, for I will forgive the remnant I preserve.
  • Jeremiah 50:21 - “Go up, my warriors, against the land of Merathaim and against the people of Pekod. Pursue, kill, and completely destroy them, as I have commanded you,” says the Lord.
  • Jeremiah 50:22 - “Let the battle cry be heard in the land, a shout of great destruction.
  • Jeremiah 50:23 - Babylon, the mightiest hammer in all the earth, lies broken and shattered. Babylon is desolate among the nations!
  • Jeremiah 50:24 - Listen, Babylon, for I have set a trap for you. You are caught, for you have fought against the Lord.
  • Jeremiah 50:25 - The Lord has opened his armory and brought out weapons to vent his fury. The terror that falls upon the Babylonians will be the work of the Sovereign Lord of Heaven’s Armies.
  • Jeremiah 50:26 - Yes, come against her from distant lands. Break open her granaries. Crush her walls and houses into heaps of rubble. Destroy her completely, and leave nothing!
  • Jeremiah 50:27 - Destroy even her young bulls— it will be terrible for them, too! Slaughter them all! For Babylon’s day of reckoning has come.
  • Jeremiah 50:28 - Listen to the people who have escaped from Babylon, as they tell in Jerusalem how the Lord our God has taken vengeance against those who destroyed his Temple.
  • Jeremiah 50:29 - “Send out a call for archers to come to Babylon. Surround the city so none can escape. Do to her as she has done to others, for she has defied the Lord, the Holy One of Israel.
  • Jeremiah 50:30 - Her young men will fall in the streets and die. Her soldiers will all be killed,” says the Lord.
  • Jeremiah 50:31 - “See, I am your enemy, you arrogant people,” says the Lord, the Lord of Heaven’s Armies. “Your day of reckoning has arrived— the day when I will punish you.
  • Jeremiah 50:32 - O land of arrogance, you will stumble and fall, and no one will raise you up. For I will light a fire in the cities of Babylon that will burn up everything around them.”
  • Jeremiah 50:33 - This is what the Lord of Heaven’s Armies says: “The people of Israel and Judah have been wronged. Their captors hold them and refuse to let them go.
  • Jeremiah 50:34 - But the one who redeems them is strong. His name is the Lord of Heaven’s Armies. He will defend them and give them rest again in Israel. But for the people of Babylon there will be no rest!
  • Jeremiah 50:35 - “The sword of destruction will strike the Babylonians,” says the Lord. “It will strike the people of Babylon— her officials and wise men, too.
  • Jeremiah 50:36 - The sword will strike her wise counselors, and they will become fools. The sword will strike her mightiest warriors, and panic will seize them.
  • Jeremiah 50:37 - The sword will strike her horses and chariots and her allies from other lands, and they will all become like women. The sword will strike her treasures, and they all will be plundered.
  • Jeremiah 50:38 - A drought will strike her water supply, causing it to dry up. And why? Because the whole land is filled with idols, and the people are madly in love with them.
  • Jeremiah 50:39 - “Soon Babylon will be inhabited by desert animals and hyenas. It will be a home for owls. Never again will people live there; it will lie desolate forever.
  • Jeremiah 50:40 - I will destroy it as I destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah and their neighboring towns,” says the Lord. “No one will live there; no one will inhabit it.
  • Jeremiah 50:41 - “Look! A great army is coming from the north. A great nation and many kings are rising against you from far-off lands.
  • Jeremiah 50:42 - They are armed with bows and spears. They are cruel and show no mercy. As they ride forward on horses, they sound like a roaring sea. They are coming in battle formation, planning to destroy you, Babylon.
  • Jeremiah 50:43 - The king of Babylon has heard reports about the enemy, and he is weak with fright. Pangs of anguish have gripped him, like those of a woman in labor.
  • Jeremiah 50:44 - “I will come like a lion from the thickets of the Jordan, leaping on the sheep in the pasture. I will chase Babylon from its land, and I will appoint the leader of my choice. For who is like me, and who can challenge me? What ruler can oppose my will?”
  • Jeremiah 50:45 - Listen to the Lord’s plans against Babylon and the land of the Babylonians. Even the little children will be dragged off like sheep, and their homes will be destroyed.
  • Jeremiah 50:46 - The earth will shake with the shout, “Babylon has been taken!” and its cry of despair will be heard around the world.
  • Isaiah 1:1 - These are the visions that Isaiah son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem. He saw these visions during the years when Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah were kings of Judah.
  • Isaiah 47:1 - “Come down, virgin daughter of Babylon, and sit in the dust. For your days of sitting on a throne have ended. O daughter of Babylonia, never again will you be the lovely princess, tender and delicate.
  • Isaiah 47:2 - Take heavy millstones and grind flour. Remove your veil, and strip off your robe. Expose yourself to public view.
  • Isaiah 47:3 - You will be naked and burdened with shame. I will take vengeance against you without pity.”
  • Isaiah 47:4 - Our Redeemer, whose name is the Lord of Heaven’s Armies, is the Holy One of Israel.
  • Isaiah 47:5 - “O beautiful Babylon, sit now in darkness and silence. Never again will you be known as the queen of kingdoms.
  • Isaiah 47:6 - For I was angry with my chosen people and punished them by letting them fall into your hands. But you, Babylon, showed them no mercy. You oppressed even the elderly.
  • Isaiah 47:7 - You said, ‘I will reign forever as queen of the world!’ You did not reflect on your actions or think about their consequences.
  • Isaiah 47:8 - “Listen to this, you pleasure-loving kingdom, living at ease and feeling secure. You say, ‘I am the only one, and there is no other. I will never be a widow or lose my children.’
  • Isaiah 47:9 - Well, both these things will come upon you in a moment: widowhood and the loss of your children. Yes, these calamities will come upon you, despite all your witchcraft and magic.
  • Isaiah 47:10 - “You felt secure in your wickedness. ‘No one sees me,’ you said. But your ‘wisdom’ and ‘knowledge’ have led you astray, and you said, ‘I am the only one, and there is no other.’
  • Isaiah 47:11 - So disaster will overtake you, and you won’t be able to charm it away. Calamity will fall upon you, and you won’t be able to buy your way out. A catastrophe will strike you suddenly, one for which you are not prepared.
  • Isaiah 47:12 - “Now use your magical charms! Use the spells you have worked at all these years! Maybe they will do you some good. Maybe they can make someone afraid of you.
  • Isaiah 47:13 - All the advice you receive has made you tired. Where are all your astrologers, those stargazers who make predictions each month? Let them stand up and save you from what the future holds.
  • Isaiah 47:14 - But they are like straw burning in a fire; they cannot save themselves from the flame. You will get no help from them at all; their hearth is no place to sit for warmth.
  • Isaiah 47:15 - And all your friends, those with whom you’ve done business since childhood, will go their own ways, turning a deaf ear to your cries.
Parallel VersesCross Reference
  • New Living Translation - Isaiah son of Amoz received this message concerning the destruction of Babylon:
  • 新标点和合本 - 亚摩斯的儿子以赛亚得默示,论巴比伦。
  • 和合本2010(上帝版-简体) - 亚摩斯的儿子以赛亚所见,有关巴比伦的默示。
  • 和合本2010(神版-简体) - 亚摩斯的儿子以赛亚所见,有关巴比伦的默示。
  • 当代译本 - 以下是亚摩斯的儿子以赛亚有关巴比伦的预言:
  • 圣经新译本 - 亚摩斯的儿子以赛亚得到关于巴比伦的默示:
  • 中文标准译本 - 亚摩斯的儿子以赛亚所见的默示,是关于巴比伦的:
  • 现代标点和合本 - 亚摩斯的儿子以赛亚得默示论巴比伦。
  • 和合本(拼音版) - 亚摩斯的儿子以赛亚得默示,论巴比伦。
  • New International Version - A prophecy against Babylon that Isaiah son of Amoz saw:
  • New International Reader's Version - Here is the prophecy against Babylon that Isaiah, the son of Amoz, saw.
  • English Standard Version - The oracle concerning Babylon which Isaiah the son of Amoz saw.
  • The Message - The Message on Babylon. Isaiah son of Amoz saw it:
  • Christian Standard Bible - A pronouncement concerning Babylon that Isaiah son of Amoz saw:
  • New American Standard Bible - The pronouncement concerning Babylon which Isaiah the son of Amoz saw:
  • New King James Version - The burden against Babylon which Isaiah the son of Amoz saw.
  • Amplified Bible - The [mournful, inspired] oracle ( a burden to be carried) concerning Babylon which Isaiah the son of Amoz saw [in a prophetic vision]:
  • American Standard Version - The burden of Babylon, which Isaiah the son of Amoz did see.
  • King James Version - The burden of Babylon, which Isaiah the son of Amoz did see.
  • New English Translation - This is a message about Babylon that God revealed to Isaiah son of Amoz:
  • World English Bible - The burden of Babylon, which Isaiah the son of Amoz saw.
  • 新標點和合本 - 亞摩斯的兒子以賽亞得默示,論巴比倫。
  • 和合本2010(上帝版-繁體) - 亞摩斯的兒子以賽亞所見,有關巴比倫的默示。
  • 和合本2010(神版-繁體) - 亞摩斯的兒子以賽亞所見,有關巴比倫的默示。
  • 當代譯本 - 以下是亞摩斯的兒子以賽亞有關巴比倫的預言:
  • 聖經新譯本 - 亞摩斯的兒子以賽亞得到關於巴比倫的默示:
  • 呂振中譯本 - 亞摩斯 的兒子 以賽亞 所見到關於 巴比倫 的神託之言。
  • 中文標準譯本 - 亞摩斯的兒子以賽亞所見的默示,是關於巴比倫的:
  • 現代標點和合本 - 亞摩斯的兒子以賽亞得默示論巴比倫。
  • 文理和合譯本 - 亞摩斯子以賽亞、所見論巴比倫之預示、○
  • 文理委辦譯本 - 亞麼士子以賽亞、以巴比倫之事、得之默示者、筆於書云、
  • 施約瑟淺文理新舊約聖經 - 亞摩斯 子 以賽亞 得默示、預言論 巴比倫 曰、
  • Nueva Versión Internacional - Profecía contra Babilonia que recibió Isaías hijo de Amoz:
  • 현대인의 성경 - 이것은 아모스의 아들 이사야가 바빌론에 대하여 하나님께 받은 말씀이다:
  • Новый Русский Перевод - Пророчество о Вавилоне, которое видел Исаия, сын Амоца.
  • Восточный перевод - Пророчество о Вавилоне, которое видел Исаия, сын Амоца.
  • Восточный перевод, версия с «Аллахом» - Пророчество о Вавилоне, которое видел Исаия, сын Амоца.
  • Восточный перевод, версия для Таджикистана - Пророчество о Вавилоне, которое видел Исаия, сын Амоца.
  • La Bible du Semeur 2015 - Menace sur Babylone, révélée à Esaïe, fils d’Amots.
  • リビングバイブル - 以下は、神がアモツの子イザヤに示したバビロン滅亡の幻です。
  • Nova Versão Internacional - Advertência contra a Babilônia, que Isaías, filho de Amoz, recebeu em visão:
  • Hoffnung für alle - Dies ist die Botschaft über die Stadt Babylon, die der Prophet Jesaja, der Sohn von Amoz, in einer Vision vom Herrn empfing:
  • Kinh Thánh Hiện Đại - Y-sai, con A-mốt nhận được sứ điệp về sự suy vong của Ba-by-lôn:
  • พระคริสตธรรมคัมภีร์ไทย ฉบับอมตธรรมร่วมสมัย - พระดำรัสเกี่ยวกับบาบิโลนซึ่งอิสยาห์บุตรอาโมศได้รับ
  • พระคัมภีร์ ฉบับแปลใหม่ - คำ​พยากรณ์​เกี่ยว​กับ​บาบิโลน ซึ่ง​อิสยาห์​บุตร​อามอส​เห็น
  • Zechariah 12:1 - This message concerning the fate of Israel came from the Lord: “This message is from the Lord, who stretched out the heavens, laid the foundations of the earth, and formed the human spirit.
  • Jeremiah 23:33 - “Suppose one of the people or one of the prophets or priests asks you, ‘What prophecy has the Lord burdened you with now?’ You must reply, ‘You are the burden! The Lord says he will abandon you!’
  • Jeremiah 23:34 - “If any prophet, priest, or anyone else says, ‘I have a prophecy from the Lord,’ I will punish that person along with his entire family.
  • Jeremiah 23:35 - You should keep asking each other, ‘What is the Lord’s answer?’ or ‘What is the Lord saying?’
  • Jeremiah 23:36 - But stop using this phrase, ‘prophecy from the Lord.’ For people are using it to give authority to their own ideas, turning upside down the words of our God, the living God, the Lord of Heaven’s Armies.
  • Jeremiah 23:37 - “This is what you should say to the prophets: ‘What is the Lord’s answer?’ or ‘What is the Lord saying?’
  • Jeremiah 23:38 - But suppose they respond, ‘This is a prophecy from the Lord!’ Then you should say, ‘This is what the Lord says: Because you have used this phrase, “prophecy from the Lord,” even though I warned you not to use it,
  • Habakkuk 1:1 - This is the message that the prophet Habakkuk received in a vision.
  • Isaiah 22:1 - This message came to me concerning Jerusalem—the Valley of Vision : What is happening? Why is everyone running to the rooftops?
  • Zechariah 9:1 - This is the message from the Lord against the land of Aram and the city of Damascus, for the eyes of humanity, including all the tribes of Israel, are on the Lord.
  • Nahum 1:1 - This message concerning Nineveh came as a vision to Nahum, who lived in Elkosh.
  • Isaiah 19:1 - This message came to me concerning Egypt: Look! The Lord is advancing against Egypt, riding on a swift cloud. The idols of Egypt tremble. The hearts of the Egyptians melt with fear.
  • Isaiah 43:14 - This is what the Lord says—your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: “For your sakes I will send an army against Babylon, forcing the Babylonians to flee in those ships they are so proud of.
  • Isaiah 17:1 - This message came to me concerning Damascus: “Look, the city of Damascus will disappear! It will become a heap of ruins.
  • Isaiah 21:13 - This message came to me concerning Arabia: O caravans from Dedan, hide in the deserts of Arabia.
  • Isaiah 44:1 - “But now, listen to me, Jacob my servant, Israel my chosen one.
  • Isaiah 44:2 - The Lord who made you and helps you says: Do not be afraid, O Jacob, my servant, O dear Israel, my chosen one.
  • Malachi 1:1 - This is the message that the Lord gave to Israel through the prophet Malachi.
  • Ezekiel 12:10 - Say to them, ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: These actions contain a message for King Zedekiah in Jerusalem and for all the people of Israel.’
  • Jeremiah 25:12 - “Then, after the seventy years of captivity are over, I will punish the king of Babylon and his people for their sins,” says the Lord. “I will make the country of the Babylonians a wasteland forever.
  • Jeremiah 25:13 - I will bring upon them all the terrors I have promised in this book—all the penalties announced by Jeremiah against the nations.
  • Jeremiah 25:14 - Many nations and great kings will enslave the Babylonians, just as they enslaved my people. I will punish them in proportion to the suffering they cause my people.”
  • Jeremiah 25:15 - This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, said to me: “Take from my hand this cup filled to the brim with my anger, and make all the nations to whom I send you drink from it.
  • Jeremiah 25:16 - When they drink from it, they will stagger, crazed by the warfare I will send against them.”
  • Jeremiah 25:17 - So I took the cup of anger from the Lord and made all the nations drink from it—every nation to which the Lord sent me.
  • Jeremiah 25:18 - I went to Jerusalem and the other towns of Judah, and their kings and officials drank from the cup. From that day until this, they have been a desolate ruin, an object of horror, contempt, and cursing.
  • Jeremiah 25:19 - I gave the cup to Pharaoh, king of Egypt, his attendants, his officials, and all his people,
  • Jeremiah 25:20 - along with all the foreigners living in that land. I also gave it to all the kings of the land of Uz and the kings of the Philistine cities of Ashkelon, Gaza, Ekron, and what remains of Ashdod.
  • Jeremiah 25:21 - Then I gave the cup to the nations of Edom, Moab, and Ammon,
  • Jeremiah 25:22 - and the kings of Tyre and Sidon, and the kings of the regions across the sea.
  • Jeremiah 25:23 - I gave it to Dedan, Tema, and Buz, and to the people who live in distant places.
  • Jeremiah 25:24 - I gave it to the kings of Arabia, the kings of the nomadic tribes of the desert,
  • Jeremiah 25:25 - and to the kings of Zimri, Elam, and Media.
  • Jeremiah 25:26 - And I gave it to the kings of the northern countries, far and near, one after the other—all the kingdoms of the world. And finally, the king of Babylon himself drank from the cup of the Lord’s anger.
  • Isaiah 21:1 - This message came to me concerning Babylon—the desert by the sea : Disaster is roaring down on you from the desert, like a whirlwind sweeping in from the Negev.
  • Isaiah 21:2 - I see a terrifying vision: I see the betrayer betraying, the destroyer destroying. Go ahead, you Elamites and Medes, attack and lay siege. I will make an end to all the groaning Babylon caused.
  • Isaiah 21:3 - My stomach aches and burns with pain. Sharp pangs of anguish are upon me, like those of a woman in labor. I grow faint when I hear what God is planning; I am too afraid to look.
  • Isaiah 21:4 - My mind reels and my heart races. I longed for evening to come, but now I am terrified of the dark.
  • Isaiah 21:5 - Look! They are preparing a great feast. They are spreading rugs for people to sit on. Everyone is eating and drinking. But quick! Grab your shields and prepare for battle. You are being attacked!
  • Isaiah 21:6 - Meanwhile, the Lord said to me, “Put a watchman on the city wall. Let him shout out what he sees.
  • Isaiah 21:7 - He should look for chariots drawn by pairs of horses, and for riders on donkeys and camels. Let the watchman be fully alert.”
  • Isaiah 21:8 - Then the watchman called out, “Day after day I have stood on the watchtower, my lord. Night after night I have remained at my post.
  • Isaiah 21:9 - Now at last—look! Here comes a man in a chariot with a pair of horses!” Then the watchman said, “Babylon is fallen, fallen! All the idols of Babylon lie broken on the ground!”
  • Isaiah 21:10 - O my people, threshed and winnowed, I have told you everything the Lord of Heaven’s Armies has said, everything the God of Israel has told me.
  • Isaiah 21:11 - This message came to me concerning Edom : Someone from Edom keeps calling to me, “Watchman, how much longer until morning? When will the night be over?”
  • Isaiah 14:28 - This message came to me the year King Ahaz died:
  • Daniel 5:28 - Parsin means ‘divided’—your kingdom has been divided and given to the Medes and Persians.”
  • Isaiah 15:1 - This message came to me concerning Moab: In one night the town of Ar will be leveled, and the city of Kir will be destroyed.
  • Daniel 5:6 - and his face turned pale with fright. His knees knocked together in fear and his legs gave way beneath him.
  • Isaiah 14:4 - you will taunt the king of Babylon. You will say, “The mighty man has been destroyed. Yes, your insolence is ended.
  • Isaiah 14:5 - For the Lord has crushed your wicked power and broken your evil rule.
  • Isaiah 14:6 - You struck the people with endless blows of rage and held the nations in your angry grip with unrelenting tyranny.
  • Isaiah 14:7 - But finally the earth is at rest and quiet. Now it can sing again!
  • Isaiah 14:8 - Even the trees of the forest— the cypress trees and the cedars of Lebanon— sing out this joyous song: ‘Since you have been cut down, no one will come now to cut us down!’
  • Isaiah 14:9 - “In the place of the dead there is excitement over your arrival. The spirits of world leaders and mighty kings long dead stand up to see you.
  • Isaiah 14:10 - With one voice they all cry out, ‘Now you are as weak as we are!
  • Isaiah 14:11 - Your might and power were buried with you. The sound of the harp in your palace has ceased. Now maggots are your sheet, and worms your blanket.’
  • Isaiah 14:12 - “How you are fallen from heaven, O shining star, son of the morning! You have been thrown down to the earth, you who destroyed the nations of the world.
  • Isaiah 14:13 - For you said to yourself, ‘I will ascend to heaven and set my throne above God’s stars. I will preside on the mountain of the gods far away in the north.
  • Isaiah 14:14 - I will climb to the highest heavens and be like the Most High.’
  • Isaiah 14:15 - Instead, you will be brought down to the place of the dead, down to its lowest depths.
  • Isaiah 14:16 - Everyone there will stare at you and ask, ‘Can this be the one who shook the earth and made the kingdoms of the world tremble?
  • Isaiah 14:17 - Is this the one who destroyed the world and made it into a wasteland? Is this the king who demolished the world’s greatest cities and had no mercy on his prisoners?’
  • Isaiah 14:18 - “The kings of the nations lie in stately glory, each in his own tomb,
  • Isaiah 14:19 - but you will be thrown out of your grave like a worthless branch. Like a corpse trampled underfoot, you will be dumped into a mass grave with those killed in battle. You will descend to the pit.
  • Isaiah 14:20 - You will not be given a proper burial, for you have destroyed your nation and slaughtered your people. The descendants of such an evil person will never again receive honor.
  • Isaiah 14:21 - Kill this man’s children! Let them die because of their father’s sins! They must not rise and conquer the earth, filling the world with their cities.”
  • Isaiah 14:22 - This is what the Lord of Heaven’s Armies says: “I, myself, have risen against Babylon! I will destroy its children and its children’s children,” says the Lord.
  • Isaiah 14:23 - “I will make Babylon a desolate place of owls, filled with swamps and marshes. I will sweep the land with the broom of destruction. I, the Lord of Heaven’s Armies, have spoken!”
  • Isaiah 13:19 - Babylon, the most glorious of kingdoms, the flower of Chaldean pride, will be devastated like Sodom and Gomorrah when God destroyed them.
  • Revelation 17:1 - One of the seven angels who had poured out the seven bowls came over and spoke to me. “Come with me,” he said, “and I will show you the judgment that is going to come on the great prostitute, who rules over many waters.
  • Revelation 17:2 - The kings of the world have committed adultery with her, and the people who belong to this world have been made drunk by the wine of her immorality.”
  • Revelation 17:3 - So the angel took me in the Spirit into the wilderness. There I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast that had seven heads and ten horns, and blasphemies against God were written all over it.
  • Revelation 17:4 - The woman wore purple and scarlet clothing and beautiful jewelry made of gold and precious gems and pearls. In her hand she held a gold goblet full of obscenities and the impurities of her immorality.
  • Revelation 17:5 - A mysterious name was written on her forehead: “Babylon the Great, Mother of All Prostitutes and Obscenities in the World.”
  • Revelation 17:6 - I could see that she was drunk—drunk with the blood of God’s holy people who were witnesses for Jesus. I stared at her in complete amazement.
  • Revelation 17:7 - “Why are you so amazed?” the angel asked. “I will tell you the mystery of this woman and of the beast with seven heads and ten horns on which she sits.
  • Revelation 17:8 - The beast you saw was once alive but isn’t now. And yet he will soon come up out of the bottomless pit and go to eternal destruction. And the people who belong to this world, whose names were not written in the Book of Life before the world was made, will be amazed at the reappearance of this beast who had died.
  • Revelation 17:9 - “This calls for a mind with understanding: The seven heads of the beast represent the seven hills where the woman rules. They also represent seven kings.
  • Revelation 17:10 - Five kings have already fallen, the sixth now reigns, and the seventh is yet to come, but his reign will be brief.
  • Revelation 17:11 - “The scarlet beast that was, but is no longer, is the eighth king. He is like the other seven, and he, too, is headed for destruction.
  • Revelation 17:12 - The ten horns of the beast are ten kings who have not yet risen to power. They will be appointed to their kingdoms for one brief moment to reign with the beast.
  • Revelation 17:13 - They will all agree to give him their power and authority.
  • Revelation 17:14 - Together they will go to war against the Lamb, but the Lamb will defeat them because he is Lord of all lords and King of all kings. And his called and chosen and faithful ones will be with him.”
  • Revelation 17:15 - Then the angel said to me, “The waters where the prostitute is ruling represent masses of people of every nation and language.
  • Revelation 17:16 - The scarlet beast and his ten horns all hate the prostitute. They will strip her naked, eat her flesh, and burn her remains with fire.
  • Revelation 17:17 - For God has put a plan into their minds, a plan that will carry out his purposes. They will agree to give their authority to the scarlet beast, and so the words of God will be fulfilled.
  • Revelation 17:18 - And this woman you saw in your vision represents the great city that rules over the kings of the world.”
  • Jeremiah 50:1 - The Lord gave Jeremiah the prophet this message concerning Babylon and the land of the Babylonians.
  • Jeremiah 50:2 - This is what the Lord says: “Tell the whole world, and keep nothing back. Raise a signal flag to tell everyone that Babylon will fall! Her images and idols will be shattered. Her gods Bel and Marduk will be utterly disgraced.
  • Jeremiah 50:3 - For a nation will attack her from the north and bring such destruction that no one will live there again. Everything will be gone; both people and animals will flee.
  • Jeremiah 50:4 - “In those coming days,” says the Lord, “the people of Israel will return home together with the people of Judah. They will come weeping and seeking the Lord their God.
  • Jeremiah 50:5 - They will ask the way to Jerusalem and will start back home again. They will bind themselves to the Lord with an eternal covenant that will never be forgotten.
  • Jeremiah 50:6 - “My people have been lost sheep. Their shepherds have led them astray and turned them loose in the mountains. They have lost their way and can’t remember how to get back to the sheepfold.
  • Jeremiah 50:7 - All who found them devoured them. Their enemies said, ‘We did nothing wrong in attacking them, for they sinned against the Lord, their true place of rest, and the hope of their ancestors.’
  • Jeremiah 50:8 - “But now, flee from Babylon! Leave the land of the Babylonians. Like male goats at the head of the flock, lead my people home again.
  • Jeremiah 50:9 - For I am raising up an army of great nations from the north. They will join forces to attack Babylon, and she will be captured. The enemies’ arrows will go straight to the mark; they will not miss!
  • Jeremiah 50:10 - Babylonia will be looted until the attackers are glutted with loot. I, the Lord, have spoken!
  • Jeremiah 50:11 - “You rejoice and are glad, you who plundered my chosen people. You frisk about like a calf in a meadow and neigh like a stallion.
  • Jeremiah 50:12 - But your homeland will be overwhelmed with shame and disgrace. You will become the least of nations— a wilderness, a dry and desolate land.
  • Jeremiah 50:13 - Because of the Lord’s anger, Babylon will become a deserted wasteland. All who pass by will be horrified and will gasp at the destruction they see there.
  • Jeremiah 50:14 - “Yes, prepare to attack Babylon, all you surrounding nations. Let your archers shoot at her; spare no arrows. For she has sinned against the Lord.
  • Jeremiah 50:15 - Shout war cries against her from every side. Look! She surrenders! Her walls have fallen. It is the Lord’s vengeance, so take vengeance on her. Do to her as she has done to others!
  • Jeremiah 50:16 - Take from Babylon all those who plant crops; send all the harvesters away. Because of the sword of the enemy, everyone will run away and rush back to their own lands.
  • Jeremiah 50:17 - “The Israelites are like sheep that have been scattered by lions. First the king of Assyria ate them up. Then King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon cracked their bones.”
  • Jeremiah 50:18 - Therefore, this is what the Lord of Heaven’s Armies, the God of Israel, says: “Now I will punish the king of Babylon and his land, just as I punished the king of Assyria.
  • Jeremiah 50:19 - And I will bring Israel home again to its own land, to feed in the fields of Carmel and Bashan, and to be satisfied once more in the hill country of Ephraim and Gilead.
  • Jeremiah 50:20 - In those days,” says the Lord, “no sin will be found in Israel or in Judah, for I will forgive the remnant I preserve.
  • Jeremiah 50:21 - “Go up, my warriors, against the land of Merathaim and against the people of Pekod. Pursue, kill, and completely destroy them, as I have commanded you,” says the Lord.
  • Jeremiah 50:22 - “Let the battle cry be heard in the land, a shout of great destruction.
  • Jeremiah 50:23 - Babylon, the mightiest hammer in all the earth, lies broken and shattered. Babylon is desolate among the nations!
  • Jeremiah 50:24 - Listen, Babylon, for I have set a trap for you. You are caught, for you have fought against the Lord.
  • Jeremiah 50:25 - The Lord has opened his armory and brought out weapons to vent his fury. The terror that falls upon the Babylonians will be the work of the Sovereign Lord of Heaven’s Armies.
  • Jeremiah 50:26 - Yes, come against her from distant lands. Break open her granaries. Crush her walls and houses into heaps of rubble. Destroy her completely, and leave nothing!
  • Jeremiah 50:27 - Destroy even her young bulls— it will be terrible for them, too! Slaughter them all! For Babylon’s day of reckoning has come.
  • Jeremiah 50:28 - Listen to the people who have escaped from Babylon, as they tell in Jerusalem how the Lord our God has taken vengeance against those who destroyed his Temple.
  • Jeremiah 50:29 - “Send out a call for archers to come to Babylon. Surround the city so none can escape. Do to her as she has done to others, for she has defied the Lord, the Holy One of Israel.
  • Jeremiah 50:30 - Her young men will fall in the streets and die. Her soldiers will all be killed,” says the Lord.
  • Jeremiah 50:31 - “See, I am your enemy, you arrogant people,” says the Lord, the Lord of Heaven’s Armies. “Your day of reckoning has arrived— the day when I will punish you.
  • Jeremiah 50:32 - O land of arrogance, you will stumble and fall, and no one will raise you up. For I will light a fire in the cities of Babylon that will burn up everything around them.”
  • Jeremiah 50:33 - This is what the Lord of Heaven’s Armies says: “The people of Israel and Judah have been wronged. Their captors hold them and refuse to let them go.
  • Jeremiah 50:34 - But the one who redeems them is strong. His name is the Lord of Heaven’s Armies. He will defend them and give them rest again in Israel. But for the people of Babylon there will be no rest!
  • Jeremiah 50:35 - “The sword of destruction will strike the Babylonians,” says the Lord. “It will strike the people of Babylon— her officials and wise men, too.
  • Jeremiah 50:36 - The sword will strike her wise counselors, and they will become fools. The sword will strike her mightiest warriors, and panic will seize them.
  • Jeremiah 50:37 - The sword will strike her horses and chariots and her allies from other lands, and they will all become like women. The sword will strike her treasures, and they all will be plundered.
  • Jeremiah 50:38 - A drought will strike her water supply, causing it to dry up. And why? Because the whole land is filled with idols, and the people are madly in love with them.
  • Jeremiah 50:39 - “Soon Babylon will be inhabited by desert animals and hyenas. It will be a home for owls. Never again will people live there; it will lie desolate forever.
  • Jeremiah 50:40 - I will destroy it as I destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah and their neighboring towns,” says the Lord. “No one will live there; no one will inhabit it.
  • Jeremiah 50:41 - “Look! A great army is coming from the north. A great nation and many kings are rising against you from far-off lands.
  • Jeremiah 50:42 - They are armed with bows and spears. They are cruel and show no mercy. As they ride forward on horses, they sound like a roaring sea. They are coming in battle formation, planning to destroy you, Babylon.
  • Jeremiah 50:43 - The king of Babylon has heard reports about the enemy, and he is weak with fright. Pangs of anguish have gripped him, like those of a woman in labor.
  • Jeremiah 50:44 - “I will come like a lion from the thickets of the Jordan, leaping on the sheep in the pasture. I will chase Babylon from its land, and I will appoint the leader of my choice. For who is like me, and who can challenge me? What ruler can oppose my will?”
  • Jeremiah 50:45 - Listen to the Lord’s plans against Babylon and the land of the Babylonians. Even the little children will be dragged off like sheep, and their homes will be destroyed.
  • Jeremiah 50:46 - The earth will shake with the shout, “Babylon has been taken!” and its cry of despair will be heard around the world.
  • Isaiah 1:1 - These are the visions that Isaiah son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem. He saw these visions during the years when Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah were kings of Judah.
  • Isaiah 47:1 - “Come down, virgin daughter of Babylon, and sit in the dust. For your days of sitting on a throne have ended. O daughter of Babylonia, never again will you be the lovely princess, tender and delicate.
  • Isaiah 47:2 - Take heavy millstones and grind flour. Remove your veil, and strip off your robe. Expose yourself to public view.
  • Isaiah 47:3 - You will be naked and burdened with shame. I will take vengeance against you without pity.”
  • Isaiah 47:4 - Our Redeemer, whose name is the Lord of Heaven’s Armies, is the Holy One of Israel.
  • Isaiah 47:5 - “O beautiful Babylon, sit now in darkness and silence. Never again will you be known as the queen of kingdoms.
  • Isaiah 47:6 - For I was angry with my chosen people and punished them by letting them fall into your hands. But you, Babylon, showed them no mercy. You oppressed even the elderly.
  • Isaiah 47:7 - You said, ‘I will reign forever as queen of the world!’ You did not reflect on your actions or think about their consequences.
  • Isaiah 47:8 - “Listen to this, you pleasure-loving kingdom, living at ease and feeling secure. You say, ‘I am the only one, and there is no other. I will never be a widow or lose my children.’
  • Isaiah 47:9 - Well, both these things will come upon you in a moment: widowhood and the loss of your children. Yes, these calamities will come upon you, despite all your witchcraft and magic.
  • Isaiah 47:10 - “You felt secure in your wickedness. ‘No one sees me,’ you said. But your ‘wisdom’ and ‘knowledge’ have led you astray, and you said, ‘I am the only one, and there is no other.’
  • Isaiah 47:11 - So disaster will overtake you, and you won’t be able to charm it away. Calamity will fall upon you, and you won’t be able to buy your way out. A catastrophe will strike you suddenly, one for which you are not prepared.
  • Isaiah 47:12 - “Now use your magical charms! Use the spells you have worked at all these years! Maybe they will do you some good. Maybe they can make someone afraid of you.
  • Isaiah 47:13 - All the advice you receive has made you tired. Where are all your astrologers, those stargazers who make predictions each month? Let them stand up and save you from what the future holds.
  • Isaiah 47:14 - But they are like straw burning in a fire; they cannot save themselves from the flame. You will get no help from them at all; their hearth is no place to sit for warmth.
  • Isaiah 47:15 - And all your friends, those with whom you’ve done business since childhood, will go their own ways, turning a deaf ear to your cries.
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