Jeremiah 51:48

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Summary

Then the heaven and the earth, and all that is therein, shall sing for Babylon: for the spoilers shall come unto her from the north, saith the LORD.

The heaven

The spoilers

Jeremiah 51:11

Jeremiah 50:3

Bible References

The heaven

The Lord has made clear our righteousness: come, and let us give an account in Zion of the work of the Lord our God.

The upright man will be glad when he sees their punishment; his feet will be washed in the blood of the evil-doer.

When things go well for the upright man, all the town is glad; at the death of sinners, there are cries of joy.

Make a song, O heavens, for the Lord has done it: give a loud cry, you deep parts of the earth: let your voices be loud in song, you mountains, and you woods with all your trees: for the Lord has taken up the cause of Jacob, and will let his glory be seen in Israel.

Go out of Babylon, go in flight from the Chaldaeans; with the sound of song make it clear, give the news, let the word go out even to the end of the earth: say, The Lord has taken up the cause of his servant Jacob.

Let your voice be loud in song, O heavens; and be glad, O earth; make sounds of joy, O mountains, for the Lord has given comfort to his people, and will have mercy on his crushed ones.

And I saw another sign in heaven, great and strange; seven angels having the seven last punishments, for in them the wrath of God is complete.

And the third let what was in his vessel come out into the rivers and the fountains of water; and they became blood.

Be glad over her, heaven, and you saints, and Apostles, and prophets; because she has been judged by God on your account.

After these things there came to my ears a sound like the voice of a great band of people in heaven, saying, Praise to the Lord; salvation and glory and power be to our God:

The spoilers

Make bright the arrows; take up the body-covers: the Lord has been moving the spirit of the king of the Medes; because his design against Babylon is its destruction: for it is the punishment from the Lord, the payment for his Temple.

For out of the north a nation is coming up against her, which will make her land waste and unpeopled: they are in flight, man and beast are gone.