Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
Cut off the sower from Babylon, and him that handleth the sickle in the time of harvest: for fear of the oppressing sword they shall turn every one to his people, and they shall flee every one to his own land.
The sower
They shall turn every one
Bible References
The sower
Jeremiah 51:23
I used you to smash shepherds and their flocks. I used you to smash farmers and their teams of oxen. I used you to smash governors and leaders."
Joel 1:11
Be distressed, farmers; wail, vinedressers, over the wheat and the barley. For the harvest of the field has perished.
Amos 5:16
Because of Israel's sins this is what the Lord, the God who commands armies, the sovereign One, says: "In all the squares there will be wailing, in all the streets they will mourn the dead. They will tell the field workers to lament and the professional mourners to wail.
They shall turn every one
Jeremiah 46:16
I will make many stumble. They will fall over one another in their hurry to flee. They will say, 'Get up! Let's go back to our own people. Let's go back to our homelands because the enemy is coming to destroy us.'
Jeremiah 51:9
Foreigners living there will say, 'We tried to heal her, but she could not be healed. Let's leave Babylonia and each go back to his own country. For judgment on her will be vast in its proportions. It will be like it is piled up to heaven, stacked up into the clouds.'
Isaiah 13:14
Like a frightened gazelle or a sheep with no shepherd, each will turn toward home, each will run to his homeland.