Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
Your mother shall be sore confounded; she that bare you shall be ashamed: behold, the hindermost of the nations shall be a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert.
The hindermost
A wilderness
General references
Bible References
Mother
Jeremiah 49:2
That is why the days are coming,' declares Jehovah, 'when I will sound the battle cry against Rabbah, where the people of Ammon live. It will become a pile of rubble. Its villages will be burned down.' 'Then Israel will take possession of its inheritance,' says Jehovah.
Galatians 4:26
The Jerusalem above is free. She is our mother.
Revelation 17:5
A name was written on her forehead, a mystery, Babylon the Great, the mother of the harlots and of the abominations of the earth.
The hindermost
Jeremiah 25:26
all the kings of the north, near and far, one after another-all the kingdoms of the earth. Last of all, the king of Sheshach will drink from the cup.
Isaiah 23:13
Look at the land of the Chaldeans. This is the people that were not. Assyria appointed it for desert creatures. They erected their siege towers and they stripped its palaces. They made it a ruin!
A wilderness
Jeremiah 50:35
A sword will kill the Babylonians and everyone who lives in Babylon, declares Jehovah. A sword will kill their officials and their wise men.
Jeremiah 25:12
When the seventy years are over, I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation for their crimes,' declares Jehovah. 'I will turn Babylon into a permanent wasteland.
Jeremiah 51:25
I am against you, Babylon, you destructive mountain. You have destroyed the whole earth, declares Jehovah. I will use my power against you and roll you off the cliffs, and make you a scorched mountain.
Isaiah 13:20
It will never be inhabited or lived in from generation to generation! Nor will the Arab pitch his tent there. Nor will shepherds take their flocks there.
Isaiah 14:22
Jehovah of Hosts declares: I will attack Babylon and bring it to ruin. I will leave nothing! There will be no children, no survivors at all. I, Jehovah, have spoken.
Revelation 18:21
A mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone, and hurled it into the sea. He said: With violence the great city Babylon will be thrown down, and it will not be found any longer.
General references
Jeremiah 50:39
That is why desert animals will live with hyenas. Desert owls will also live there. It will no longer be inhabited or lived in for generations.