Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
Thus saith the LORD of hosts; The broad walls of Babylon shall be utterly broken, and her high gates shall be burned with fire; and the people shall labour in vain, and the folk in the fire, and they shall be weary.
High gates
The people
Bible References
High gates
Jeremiah 51:30 The mighty men of Babylon have ceased fighting,
They stay in the strongholds;
Their strength is exhausted,
They are becominglike women;
Their dwelling places are set on fire,
Thebars of her gates are broken.
They stay in the strongholds;
They are becoming
Their dwelling places are set on fire,
The
Isaiah 45:1 Thus says the Lord to Cyrus His anointed,
Whom I have taken by the righthand,
Tosubdue nations before him
Andto loose the loins of kings;
To open doors before him so that gates will not be shut:
Whom I have taken by the right
To
And
To open doors before him so that gates will not be shut:
The people
Jeremiah 51:9 We applied healing to Babylon, but she was not healed;
Forsake her andlet us each go to his own country,
For her judgment hasreached to heaven
Andtowers up to the very skies.
Forsake her and
For her judgment has
And
Psalm 127:1
A Song of Ascents, of Solomon.
Unless the Lordbuilds the house,
They labor in vain who build it;
Unless the Lordguards the city,
The watchman keeps awake in vain.
Unless the Lord
They labor in vain who build it;
Unless the Lord
The watchman keeps awake in vain.
Isaiah 65:23 “They will not labor in vain,
Or bear children for calamity;
For they are theoffspring of those blessed by the Lord,
And their descendants with them.
Or bear children for calamity;
For they are the
And their descendants with them.
Habakkuk 2:13 “Is it not indeed from the Lord of hosts
That peoplestoil for fire,
And nations grow weary for nothing?
That peoples
And nations grow weary for nothing?