Jeremiah 50:38

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

A drought is upon her waters; and they shall be dried up: for it is the land of graven images, and they are mad upon their idols.

A drought

Revelation 17:15

The land

Mad

Jeremiah 51:7

Isaiah 44:25

Acts 17:16

Bible References

A drought

your mother was sore confounded; she that bore you was ashamed: see here the latter end of the Gentiles: wilderness, dry land, and desert.

And the fords were taken, and they have burned the reeds with fire, and the men of war were astounded.

that says to the deep, Be dry, and I will dry up thy rivers

And the sixth angel poured out his vial into the great river Euphrates; and its water was dried up, that the way of the kings from the rising of the sun might be prepared.

And he said unto me, The waters which thou hast seen, where the whore sits, are peoples and multitudes and nations and tongues.

The land

Declare ye among the Gentiles, and publish, and set up a banner; publish, and do not conceal: say, Babylon is taken, Bel is confounded, Merodach is broken in pieces; her idols are confounded, her images are broken in pieces.

And I will visit Bel himself in Babylon, and I will bring forth out of his mouth that which he has swallowed up; and the Gentiles shall not flow together any more unto him; and the wall of Babylon shall fall.

Bel bowed down; Nebo is fallen; their images were placed upon animals and upon beasts of burden that will carry you, laden with yourselves, burden of weariness.

They drank wine and praised the gods of gold and of silver, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone.

Of what profit is the graven image that its maker has sculpted; the molten image, that teaches lies, so that in making dumb images the maker trusts in his work?

and upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF THE HARLOTS AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.

Mad

Babylon has been a golden cup in the LORD's hand that made all the earth drunken: the Gentiles have drunken of her wine; therefore the nations are mad.

that undoes the signs of the fortune tellers and makes the diviners mad; that turns the wise men backward and makes their wisdom fade away;

Now while Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit was stirred in him when he saw the city completely given over to idolatry.