Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Therefore shall her plagues come in one day, death, and mourning, and famine; and she shall be utterly burned with fire: for strong is the Lord God who judgeth her.

Bible References

Shall her

Revelation 18:10
They will stand far off in fear of her torment, saying:

Woe, woe, the great city,
Babylon, the mighty city!
For in a single hour
your judgment has come.
Isaiah 47:9
These two things will happen to you
suddenly, in one day:
loss of children and widowhood.
They will happen to you in their entirety,
in spite of your many sorceries
and the potency of your spells.
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.

And she

Revelation 18:9
The kings of the earth who have committed sexual immorality and lived luxuriously with her will weep and mourn over her when they see the smoke of her burning.
Revelation 17:18
And the woman you saw is the great city that has an empire over the kings of the earth.”
Revelation 19:3
A second time they said:

Hallelujah!
Her smoke ascends forever and ever!
Jeremiah 51:58
This is what Yahweh of Hosts says:

Babylon’s thick walls will be totally demolished,
and her high gates consumed by fire.
The peoples will have labored for nothing;
the nations will exhaust themselves only to feed the fire.

General references

Numbers 31:10
Then they burned all the cities where the Midianites lived, as well as all their encampments,
Proverbs 14:13
Even in laughter a heart may be sad,
and joy may end in grief.
Jeremiah 50:40
Just as God demolished Sodom and Gomorrah
and their neighboring towns
this is the Lord’s declaration—
so no one will live there;
no human being will even stay in it
as a temporary resident.
Zechariah 1:15
I am fiercely angry with the nations that are at ease, for I was a little angry, but they made it worse.

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