Jeremiah 50:42

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

The Lord has said, See, a people is coming from the north country, a great nation will be put in motion from the inmost parts of the earth.

They are cruel

Keep in mind your undertaking; for the dark places of the earth are full of pride and cruel acts.

O daughter of Babylon, whose fate is destruction; happy is the man who does to you what you have done to us.

See, I am driving the Medes against them, who put no value on silver and have no pleasure in gold.

He whose rod was on the peoples with an unending wrath, ruling the nations in passion, with an uncontrolled rule.

I was angry with my people, I put shame on my heritage, and gave them into your hands: you had no mercy on them; you put a cruel yoke on those who were old;

For see, I am sending the Chaldaeans, that bitter and quick-moving nation; who go through the wide spaces of the earth to get for themselves living-places which are not theirs.

For the man who has had no mercy will be judged without mercy, but mercy takes pride in overcoming judging.

For they made the blood of saints and prophets come out like a stream, and blood have you given them for drink; which is their right reward.

Their voice

For this cause we will have no fear, even though the earth is changed, and though the mountains are moved in the heart of the sea;

And his voice will be loud over him in that day like the sounding of the sea: and if a man's eyes are turned to the earth, it is all dark and full of trouble; and the light is made dark by thick clouds.

Shall ride

The loud breathing of the horses comes to our ears from Dan: at the sound of the outcry of his war-horses, all the land is shaking with fear; for they have come, and have made a meal of the land and everything in it; the town and the people living in it.

At the noise of the stamping of the feet of his war-horses, at the rushing of his carriages and the thunder of his wheels, fathers will give no thought to their children, because their hands are feeble;

Their arrows are sharp, and every bow is bent: the feet of their horses are like rock, and their wheels are like a rushing storm.

And their horses are quicker than leopards and their horsemen more cruel than evening wolves; they come from far away, like an eagle in flight rushing on its food.

And the armies which are in heaven went after him on white horses, clothed in delicate linen, white and clean.