Jeremiah 50:42

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Summary

They shall hold the bow and the lance: they are cruel, and will not shew mercy: their voice shall roar like the sea, and they shall ride upon horses, every one put in array, like a man to the battle, against thee, O daughter of Babylon.

Hold

Jeremiah 6:22

They are cruel

Their voice

Psalm 46:2

Isaiah 5:30

Shall ride

Revelation 19:14

Bible References

Hold

Thus saith Jehovah, Behold, a people cometh from the north country; and a great nation shall be stirred up from the uttermost parts of the earth.

They are cruel

Have respect unto the covenant; For the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of violence.

O daughter of Babylon, that art to be destroyed, Happy shall he be, that rewardeth thee As thou hast served us.

Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, who shall not regard silver, and as for gold, they shall not delight in it.

that smote the peoples in wrath with a continual stroke, that ruled the nations in anger, with a persecution that none restrained.

I was wroth with my people, I profaned mine inheritance, and gave them into thy hand: thou didst show them no mercy; upon the aged hast thou very heavily laid thy yoke.

For, lo, I raise up the Chaldeans, that bitter and hasty nation, that march through the breadth of the earth, to possess dwelling-places that are not theirs.

For judgment is without mercy to him that hath showed no mercy: mercy glorieth against judgment.

for they poured out the blood of the saints and the prophets, and blood hast thou given them to drink: they are worthy.

Their voice

Therefore will we not fear, though the earth do change, And though the mountains be shaken into the heart of the seas;

And they shall roar against them in that day like the roaring of the sea: and if one look unto the land, behold, darkness and distress; and the light is darkened in the clouds thereof.

Shall ride

The snorting of his horses is heard from Dan: at the sound of the neighing of his strong ones the whole land trembleth; for they are come, and have devoured the land and all that is in it; the city and those that dwell therein.

At the noise of the stamping of the hoofs of his strong ones, at the rushing of his chariots, at the rumbling of his wheels, the fathers look not back to their children for feebleness of hands;

whose arrows are sharp, and all their bows bent; their horses hoofs shall be accounted as flint, and their wheels as a whirlwind:

Their horses also are swifter than leopards, and are more fierce than the evening wolves; and their horsemen press proudly on: yea, their horsemen come from far; they fly as an eagle that hasteth to devour.

And the armies which are in heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and pure.