Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Because the spoiler is come upon her, even upon Babylon, and her mighty men are taken, every one of their bows is broken: for the LORD God of recompences shall surely requite.

General references

Bible References

Her mighty

Jeremiah 51:30
Babylon’s warriors have stopped fighting;
they sit in their strongholds.
Their might is exhausted;
they have become like women.
Babylon’s homes have been set ablaze,
her gate bars are shattered.
Jeremiah 50:36
A sword is against the diviners,
and they will act foolishly.
A sword is against her heroic warriors,
and they will be terrified.

Every

Jeremiah 49:35
This is what the Lord of Hosts says:

I am about to shatter Elam’s bow,
the source of their might.
Genesis 49:24
Yet his bow remained steady,
and his strong arms were made agile
by the hands of the Mighty One of Jacob,
by the name of the Shepherd, the Rock of Israel,
1 Samuel 2:4
The bows of the warriors are broken,
but the feeble are clothed with strength.
Psalm 37:15
Their swords will enter their own hearts,
and their bows will be broken.
Psalm 46:9
He makes wars cease throughout the earth.
He shatters bows and cuts spears to pieces;
He burns up the chariots.
Psalm 76:3
There He shatters the bow’s flaming arrows,
the shield, the sword, and the weapons of war.Selah
Ezekiel 39:3
Then I will knock your bow from your left hand and make your arrows drop from your right hand.

The lord

Jeremiah 51:6
Leave Babylon;
save your lives, each of you!
Don’t perish because of her guilt.
For this is the time of the Lord’s vengeance—
He will pay her what she deserves.
Jeremiah 50:28
“There is a voice of fugitives and those who escape
from the land of Babylon
announcing in Zion the vengeance of the Lord our God,
the vengeance for His temple.
Deuteronomy 32:35
Vengeance belongs to Me; I will repay.
In time their foot will slip,
for their day of disaster is near,
and their doom is coming quickly.”
Psalm 94:1
Lord, God of vengeance—
God of vengeance, appear.
Psalm 137:8
Daughter Babylon, doomed to destruction,
happy is the one who pays you back
what you have done to us.
Isaiah 34:8
For the Lord has a day of vengeance,
a time of paying back Edom
for its hostility against Zion.
Isaiah 35:4
Say to the cowardly:
“Be strong; do not fear!
Here is your God; vengeance is coming.
God’s retribution is coming; He will save you.”
Isaiah 59:18
So He will repay according to their deeds:
fury to His enemies,
retribution to His foes,
and He will repay the coastlands.
2 Thessalonians 1:6
since it is righteous for God to repay with affliction those who afflict you
Revelation 18:5
For her sins are piled up to heaven,
and God has remembered her crimes.
Revelation 19:2
because His judgments are true and righteous,
because He has judged the notorious prostitute
who corrupted the earth with her sexual immorality;
and He has avenged the blood of His slaves
that was on her hands.

General references

Jeremiah 50:22
The sound of war is in the land
a great destruction.

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