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.

A wilderness

Bible References

Mother

Galatians 4:26
But the Jerusalem that is above is free, and she is our mother.
Revelation 17:5
On her forehead was written a name with a symbolical meaning, "Mighty Babylon, the mother of prostitutes and of earth's abominations."

A wilderness

Revelation 18:21
Then a mighty angel picked up a stone like a huge millstone and hurled it into the sea, saying: "With violence like this, Babylon the great city will be hurled to ruin, and it will never be found again.