Jeremiah 51:62

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Then shalt thou say, O LORD, thou hast spoken against this place, to cut it off, that none shall remain in it, neither man nor beast, but that it shall be desolate for ever.

To cut

General references

Isaiah 13:20

Jeremiah 30:2

Jeremiah 50:39

Bible References

To cut

See, I am against you, says the Lord, O mountain of destruction, causing the destruction of all the earth: and my hand will be stretched out on you, rolling you down from the rocks, and making you a burned mountain.

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.

And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beautiful town which is the pride of the Chaldaeans, will be like God's destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah.

For I will come up against them, says the Lord of armies, cutting off from Babylon name and offspring, son and son's son, says the Lord.

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

I will make you waste for ever, and your towns will be unpeopled: and you will be certain that I am the Lord.

General references

People will never be living in it again, and it will have no more men from generation to generation: the Arab will not put up his tent there; and those who keep sheep will not make it a resting-place for their flocks.

The Lord, the God of Israel, has said, Put down in a book all the words which I have said to you.

For this reason the beasts of the waste land with the wolves will make their holes there and the ostriches will be living in it: never again will men be living there, it will be unpeopled from generation to generation.