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.
Bible References
A drought
Jeremiah 50:12
your mother will be very ashamed. [She who] gave birth [to] you will be humiliated. Look, [she will be the] least of [the] nations, a desert, dry land, and wilderness.
Jeremiah 51:32
And the fords have been seized, and the reed marshes have been burned with fire, and {the soldiers} are horrified.
Isaiah 44:27
who says to the deep, 'Dry up! And I will cause your rivers to dry up';
Revelation 16:12
And the sixth poured out his bowl on the great river Euphrates, and its water was dried up, in order that the way would be prepared for the kings from {the east}.
Revelation 17:15
And he said to me, "The waters that you saw, where the prostitute is seated, are peoples and crowds and nations and languages.
The land
Jeremiah 50:2
"Declare among the nations and proclaim, and lift up a banner. Proclaim, you must not conceal [it]. Say, 'Babylon is captured, Bel is ashamed, Merodach is filled with terror, her idols are ashamed, her idols are filled with terror.
Jeremiah 51:44
And I will punish Bel in Babylon, and I will wrench out from his mouth {what he has swallowed}. And [the] nations will not stream towards him [any] longer {what's worse}, the wall of Babylon has fallen.
Isaiah 46:1
Bel bows down; Nebo [is] stooping. Their idols are {on} animals and {on} cattle; your {cargo} is carried [as] a burden {on} weary [animals].
Daniel 5:4
They drank the wine and praised the gods of gold and silver, bronze, iron, wood and stone.
Habakkuk 2:18
What value [is] an idol when its carver has fashioned it, a molten idol, a teacher of lies? For [he who] fashioned his creation trusts in it, [though] making mute idols!
Revelation 17:5
And on her forehead a name [was] written, a mystery: "Babylon the great, the mother of prostitutes and of the detestable things of the earth."
Mad
Jeremiah 51:7
Babylon [was] a cup of gold in the hand of Yahweh, making drunk all the earth. [The] nations drank of her wine. {Therefore} [the] nations acted like madmen.
Isaiah 44:25
who frustrates [the] signs of oracle priests and makes a fool of diviners, who drives [the] wise men back and makes their knowledge foolish,
Acts 17:16
Now while Paul was waiting for them in Athens, his spirit was provoked within him [when he] observed the city was full of idols.