Jeremiah 51:37 Cross References - Thomson

³⁷ and Babylon shall be a desolation and shall not be inhabited.

⁸ therefore the Lord hath been provoked to wrath against Juda and Jerusalem, and hath made them an astonishment and a desolation, and an object of pity, as you see with your eyes.

¹⁹ And Babylon, which is stiled Glorious, by the king of the Chaldeans, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorra. ²⁰ It shall not be inhabited for a great length of time, nor shall it be entered for many generations. The Arabians shall not pass through it; nor shall shepherds make their folds therein. ²¹ But wild beasts shall there go to rest; and the houses shall be filled with howling. There jackals shall make their abode; and there demons shall hold their revels. ²² And onocentaurs shall inhabit there; and porcupines shall breed in the houses. [p] He is coming quickly and will not tarry,

²³ "I will lay Babylonia waste: that porcupines may inhabit it; and it shall be a desolation. And I will plunge it in the miry gulf of destruction.

⁸ For it is the day of the Lord's vengeance, and the year for a judicial retribution to Sion: ⁹ and its torrents shall be turned into pitch, and its land into sulphur. And its land shall be like pitch burning day and night, ¹⁰ and which shall not be extinguished: for a long time the smoke of it shall ascend. During its generation it shall be desolate. ¹¹ And for a long period fowls and porcupines, ibises and crows shall dwell therein. And over it shall be stretched a line of devastation; and in it the onocentaurs shall dwell. ¹² The chiefs of it shall be no more; for its kings and its nobles shall be for destruction. ¹³ And in their cities shall spring up brakes; and brambles shall be its fortresses: and they shall be cots for Sirens, and for the ostrich's court. ¹⁴ And demons shall meet onocentaurs; and bellow one to the other. Onocentaurs shall there enjoy repose having found for themselves a place of rest. ¹⁵ There the porcupine hath made its nest; and the land hath safely kept its young. There the deer have assembled and seen each other's face. ¹⁶ I counted them and there is not one of them lost. They have not had occasion to seek each other: for the Lord hath issued orders to them; and his spirit hath brought them together. ¹⁷ And he will himself cast the lots for them, his hand hath meted the place for them to feed. For a long time you shall inherit it. [c] For generations of generations let them rest therein.

¹⁶ that they may make the land a desolation; an everlasting object of pity. All that pass through it shall be astonished and shake their head.

⁸ and make this city a desolation and an object of pity. Every one who passeth by it shall be sad and express the sound of pity for the stroke which it hath received.

⁹ behold I am sending, and I will take a family from the north and bring them against this land and against the inhabitants thereof and against all the nations around it. And I will lay them waste and make them a desolation and an object of pity and an everlasting reproach.

¹² And when the seventy years are compleated I will execute vengeance on that nation, and make them an everlasting desolation.

¹⁸ namely Jerusalem, and the cities of Juda, and the kings of Juda, and his chiefs, to make them a desolation and a waste and an object of pity;

¹⁸ [Omitted]

¹² your mother shall be greatly ashamed: she who brought you forth for prosperity shall be confounded. Being the hindmost of nations, ¹³ a desert because of the wrath of the Lord, she shall not be inhabited; but shall be entirely a desolation. Sorrow will cover the countenance of all who travel through Babylon; and at all their calamity they will express pity.

²³ How the hammer of the whole earth is broken and dashed to pieces! How Babylon is become a desolation among the nations! ²⁴ They will come upon thee and thou shalt not know; like Babylon itself and thou shalt be taken. Thou art found out and taken, because thou didst set thyself against the Lord. ²⁵ The Lord hath opened his arsenal and brought out the instruments of his wrath; because the Lord God hath a work to perform in the land of the Chaldeans. ²⁶ Because her time is come; open ye her treasuries, search her like a cave; and destroy her utterly. Let not a remnant of her be left.

³⁸ against them who are on her waters and they shall be exposed to shame. Because it is a land of the graven images and it was in these islands where they boasted; ³⁹ therefore imageries shall dwell in those islands and in her shall dwell the daughters of Sirens and she shall never more be inhabited. ⁴⁰ As God overthrew Sodom and Gomorra and the neighbouring cities, said the Lord, no man shall dwell there, nor shall a son of man make his abode there.

²⁵ Behold I am against thee, corrupted mountain which corruptest the whole earth, and I will stretch out my hand against thee and roll thee down on rocks; and I will make thee like a mountain which hath been burned to ashes, ²⁶ so that they shall not take of thee a stone for a corner nor a stone for a foundation. For thou shalt be a desolation for ever, saith the Lord.

²⁹ [p] The earth was in commotion and oppressed with toil, because the determination of the Lord against Babylon had roused it, to make the land of Babylon a desolation and uninhabitable.

¹⁵ All that passed by clapped their hands for thee, they expressed the sound of pity and shaked their heads for the daughter of Jerusalem. Is this, say they, the city, the crown of joy of the whole earth! ¹⁶ Against thee all thine enemies opened their mouth; they hissed and gnashed their teeth and said, We have swallowed her up; but this is the day we looked for; we have found it; we have seen it.

¹⁶ As thou hast kept the statutes of Zambri, and all the works of the house of Achab; and you have walked in their ways, that I might deliver thee up to desolation, and the inhabitants of this city to hissing; therefore you shall bear the reproaches of peoples.

¹⁵ This is the scornful city which dwelleth securely, which saith in her heart, " I am and there is none besides me. How it is become a desolation, the haunt of wild beasts! Every one who passeth through it will express his pity and shake his hands.

² and he cried mightily, saying with a loud voice, It is fallen! Babylon the great is fallen, and is become the habitation of demons, and a hold of every unclean spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird,

²¹ Then a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone and cast it into the sea saying, Thus with violence shall Babylon that great city be dashed down and shall be found no more. ²² And the sound of harpers and of musicians and of pipers and of trumpeters shall no more be heard in thee. And no artist of any kind shall ever be found in thee again. And the sound of a millstone shall never be heard in thee again; ²³ nor shall the light of a lamp ever shine in thee any more, nor the voice of a bridegroom and bride ever be heard in thee; for thy merchants were the nobles of the earth; for by thy bewitching arts all the nations were led astray.