Jeremiah 51:14 Cross References - LEB

¹⁴ Yahweh of hosts has sworn by himself, "Surely I will fill you with troops like the creeping locusts,* and they will sing over you a war cry."

⁵ For they, their livestock, and their tents would come up like a great number of locusts; they and their camels could not be counted; they came into the land and devoured it.

²³ They will cut down her forest," _⌊declares_⌋* Yahweh, "for _⌊it is impenetrable_⌋.* Yes, they are more numerous than locusts,* and _⌊they are without number_⌋.*

¹³ For I have sworn by myself," _⌊declares_⌋* Yahweh, "that Bozrah will become as a horror, as a disgrace, as a waste, and as a curse. And all her towns will be _⌊everlasting sites of ruins_⌋."*

¹⁵ Raise a war cry against her on all sides. _⌊She has surrendered_⌋.* Her towers have fallen, her walls are ruined. For this is the vengeance of Yahweh. Take revenge on her. As she has done to others, so do to her.

²⁷ Raise a banner in the land; blow a horn among the nations; prepare for holy war against her; summon the nations against her, the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz; summon against her an official; bring up horses* like bristling creeping locusts.*

⁴ What the cutting locust left, the swarming locust has eaten. What the swarming locust left, the hopping locust has eaten. And what the hopping locust left, the destroying locust has eaten. ⁵ Wake up, drunkards, and weep! Wail, all drinkers of wine, over the new wine, for it is cut off from your mouth. ⁶ Because a nation has _⌊invaded_⌋* my land, strong _⌊and beyond counting_⌋.* Its teeth are the teeth of a lion, and its fangs are those of a lioness. ⁷ It has made my vine a desolation, and my fig tree a completely splintered stump. It has stripped them bare and thrown them down; their branches have turned white.

³ _⌊Before them_⌋* a fire devours, and behind them a flame burns. Like the garden of Eden is the land _⌊before them_⌋,* and after them it is like a desolate desert, and nothing can escape them. ⁴ Like the appearance of horses is their appearance, and like horsemen they run;

²⁵ I will repay you the years that the locust has eaten, the hopper, the destroyer, and the cutter, my mighty troops that I sent against you.

⁸ My Lord Yahweh has sworn by himself, _⌊declares_⌋* Yahweh, the God of hosts: "I abhor the pride of Jacob and I hate his citadel fortresses and I will deliver the city and its fullness!"

¹⁵ There fire will consume you; the sword will cut you off. It will consume you like the locust. ¹⁶ You have increased your merchants more than the stars of heaven; like the locust they will shed their skin and fly away. ¹⁷ Your officials are like locusts; your commanders are like a swarm of locusts. They encamp on the walls on a cold day; when the sun rises, they fly away— no one knows where they have gone.

¹³ For when* God made a promise to Abraham, since he had no one greater to swear by, he swore by himself,