Thematic Bible
Jeremiah 50:1 (show verse)
The words that the LORD spake unto the prophet Jeremiah, concerning Babylon, and the land of the Chaldeans:
Jeremiah 50:2 (show verse)
"Preach among the Gentiles, let your voice be heard, make a token: cry out, keep no silence, but say, 'Babylon shall be won, Bel shall be confounded, and Merodach shall be overcome. Yea their gods shall be brought to shame and their images shall stand in fear.'
Jeremiah 50:3 (show verse)
For out of the north there shall come a people against her, which shall make her land so waste that nobody shall dwell therein, neither man nor beast; for they shall flee and depart from thence.
Jeremiah 50:4 (show verse)
In those days, and at that time, sayeth the LORD, the children of Israel shall come; they and the children of Judah, weeping and making haste, and shall seek the LORD their God.
Afflicted saints » Should turn and devote themselves to God
Babylon » Predictions respecting » Restoration of the jews from
Backsliders » Return of
Israel/jews » Israel becoming lost
Shepherds/pastors » False shepherds/pastors
Unity » Prophesied, as a mark of the progress of true religion » Contrition unifies believers
Weeping » Penitential
Babylon » Predictions respecting » Restoration of the jews from
Backsliders » Return of
Israel/jews » Israel becoming lost
Shepherds/pastors » False shepherds/pastors
Unity » Prophesied, as a mark of the progress of true religion » Contrition unifies believers
Weeping » Penitential
Jeremiah 50:5 (show verse)
They shall ask the way to Zion; thither shall they turn their faces, and come and hang upon thee, in a covenant that never shall be broken.
Backsliders » Return of
Church » Zion
Covenant » Of man with God » israelites
Forgetting » Those that forget the lord
Israel/jews » Israel becoming lost
Pilgrims and strangers » As saints they » Pray for direction
Pilgrims and strangers » As saints they » Have their faces toward zion
Shepherds/pastors » False shepherds/pastors
Church » Zion
Covenant » Of man with God » israelites
Forgetting » Those that forget the lord
Israel/jews » Israel becoming lost
Pilgrims and strangers » As saints they » Pray for direction
Pilgrims and strangers » As saints they » Have their faces toward zion
Shepherds/pastors » False shepherds/pastors
Jeremiah 50:6 (show verse)
My people hath been a lost flock. My shepherds have deceived them, and have made them go astray upon the hills. They have gone from the mountains to the little hill, and forgotten their fold.
Backsliders » Return of
Forgetting » Those that forget the lord
Israel/jews » Israel becoming lost
Leaders » False shepherds, characteristics of » Lead the sheep astray
Lost » Power » Sheep
Religious » False shepherds, characteristics of » Lead the sheep astray
Sheep » Figurative » Of backsliders
Lost sheep » Sinners regarded as lost sheep
Shepherds » Illustrative » (ignorant and foolish,) of bad ministers
Shepherds » FALSE » Lead the sheep astray
Shepherds/pastors » False shepherds/pastors
FALSE » Shepherds » Lead the sheep astray
Forgetting » Those that forget the lord
Israel/jews » Israel becoming lost
Leaders » False shepherds, characteristics of » Lead the sheep astray
Lost » Power » Sheep
Religious » False shepherds, characteristics of » Lead the sheep astray
Sheep » Figurative » Of backsliders
Lost sheep » Sinners regarded as lost sheep
Shepherds » Illustrative » (ignorant and foolish,) of bad ministers
Shepherds » FALSE » Lead the sheep astray
Shepherds/pastors » False shepherds/pastors
FALSE » Shepherds » Lead the sheep astray
Jeremiah 50:7 (show verse)
All they that came upon them, have devoured them: and their enemies said, 'We have made no fault against them, for they have displeased the LORD, yea even the LORD which is the beauty of their righteousness, and that defended their fathers.'
Jeremiah 50:8 (show verse)
Yet shall ye flee from Babylon, and depart out of the land of the Chaldeans, and ye shall be as the rams that go before the flock.
Jeremiah 50:9 (show verse)
"For lo, I will make up a host of people from the northern land, and bring them upon Babylon: these shall lay siege to it, and win it. Their arrows shall not miss, like as a cunning archer shooteth not wrong.
Jeremiah 50:10 (show verse)
And the Chaldeans shall be spoiled; and all they that spoil them, shall be satisfied, sayeth the LORD.
No Themes for this verse.
Jeremiah 50:11 (show verse)
Because ye were so cheerful and glad, to tread down mine heritage, and fulfill your pleasures, as the calves in the grass: And triumphed over them like the bulls, when ye had gotten the victory.
Jeremiah 50:12 (show verse)
Your mothers shall be sore confounded; and they that bare you, shall come to shame. She shall be the least set by among the nations, void, waste, and dried up.
Jeremiah 50:13 (show verse)
No man shall be able to dwell there, for the fear of the LORD, but she shall be whole desolate. All they that go by Babylon, shall stand still, and be abashed, and shall wonder at all her plagues.
No Themes for this verse.
Jeremiah 50:14 (show verse)
Go forth in your array against Babylon round about, all ye that can handle bows: shoot at her, spare no arrows, for she hath sinned against the LORD.
Jeremiah 50:15 (show verse)
Cry out: upon her, upon her, against her round about: she shall yield herself, her foundations shall fall, and her walls shall come down, for it shall be the vengeance of the LORD. Yea vengeance shall be taken of her, and as she hath done, so shall she be dealt withal.
Jeremiah 50:16 (show verse)
They shall root out the sower from Babylon, and him that handleth the sickle in Harvest. For fear of the sword of the enemy, every man shall get him to his own people, and every man shall flee to his own land.
Jeremiah 50:17 (show verse)
Israel is a scattered flock, the Lions have dispersed them. First the king of the Assyrians devoured them, last of all this Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon hath bruised all their bones.
Jeremiah 50:18 (show verse)
Therefore thus sayeth the LORD of Hosts the God of Israel: Behold, I will visit the king of Babylon and his kingdom, as I have visited the king of the Assyrians.
No Themes for this verse.
Jeremiah 50:19 (show verse)
And will bring Israel again to his pleasant pasture, that he may feed upon Carmel and Bashan, and be satisfied upon the mount of Ephraim and Gilead.
Jeremiah 50:20 (show verse)
In those days and at the same time, sayeth the LORD, if the offense of Israel be sought for, there shall none be found. If men inquire for the sin of Judah, there shall be none: for I will be merciful unto them, whom I suffer to remain over.
Jeremiah 50:21 (show verse)
"Go down, O thou avenger, into the enemies' land, and visit them that dwell therein: down with them, and smite them upon the backs, sayeth the LORD. Do according to all, that I have commanded thee.
Jeremiah 50:22 (show verse)
There is gone about the land a cry of a slaughter and great murder, namely on this manner:
No Themes for this verse.
Jeremiah 50:23 (show verse)
How happeneth it that the hammer of the whole world is thus broken and bruised in sunder? How chanceth it that Babylon is become a wilderness among the Heathen on this manner?
Jeremiah 50:24 (show verse)
I myself have laid wait for thee, and thou art taken. Unawares art thou trapped and snared. For why, thou hast provoked the LORD unto anger:
No Themes for this verse.
Jeremiah 50:25 (show verse)
The LORD hath opened his house of ordinance, and brought forth the weapons of his wrath. For the thing that is done in the land of the Chaldeans, it is the LORD of Hosts' work.
Jeremiah 50:26 (show verse)
These things shall come upon her at the last: they shall break into her privy chambers, they shall leave her as bare as stones that be laid together upon heaps. They shall so destroy her that nothing shall be left.
Jeremiah 50:27 (show verse)
They shall slay all her mighty soldiers, and put them to death. Woe be unto them, for the day and the time of their visitation is at hand.
Jeremiah 50:28 (show verse)
Methink I hear already a cry of them that be fled and escaped out of the land of Babylon, which show in Zion the vengeance of the LORD our God; the vengeance of his temple. Yea, a voice of them that cry against Babylon:
No Themes for this verse.
Jeremiah 50:29 (show verse)
'Call up all the archers against Babylon! Pitch your tents round about her, that none escape!' Recompense her, as she hath deserved: and according as she hath done, so deal with her again. For she hath set up herself against the LORD, against the holy one of Israel.
No Themes for this verse.
Jeremiah 50:30 (show verse)
Therefore shall her young men fall down in the streets, and all her men of war shall be rooted out in that day, sayeth the LORD.
No Themes for this verse.
Jeremiah 50:31 (show verse)
Behold, I speak unto thee, O thou proud, sayeth the LORD God of Hosts: for thy day shall come, even the time of thy visitation.
No Themes for this verse.
Jeremiah 50:32 (show verse)
And the proud shall stumble and fall, and no man shall help him up. I will burn up his cities with fire, and it shall consume all that is round about him.
Jeremiah 50:33 (show verse)
"Thus sayeth the LORD of Hosts: The children of Israel and Judah suffer violence together. All they that have them in captivity, keep them fast and will not let them go.
No Themes for this verse.
Jeremiah 50:34 (show verse)
But their avenger and redeemer is mighty, whose name is the LORD of Hosts: he shall maintain their cause, he shall make the land shake, and judge them that dwell therein, one with another.
Jeremiah 50:35 (show verse)
The sword shall come upon the Chaldeans, sayeth the LORD; upon them that dwell in Babylon; upon their princes; and upon their wise men.
Jeremiah 50:36 (show verse)
The sword upon their soothsayers: as for those, they shall become fools. The sword upon their worthies: so that they shall stand in fear.
No Themes for this verse.
Jeremiah 50:37 (show verse)
The sword upon their horsemen and chariots, and upon all the common people that dwell under them: so that they all shall become like women. The sword upon their treasure: so that it shall be stolen away.
Jeremiah 50:38 (show verse)
The sword upon their waters: so that they shall be dried up. For the land worshippeth images, and delighteth in strange wonderful things.
Jeremiah 50:39 (show verse)
Therefore shall wild beasts, Apes, and Ostriches dwell therein: for there shall never man dwell there, neither shall any man have his habitation there for evermore.
Jeremiah 50:40 (show verse)
Like as God destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, with the cities that lay there about, sayeth the LORD: So shall no man dwell there also, neither shall any man have there his habitation.
Jeremiah 50:41 (show verse)
Behold, there shall come a people from the North, with a great bound of men, and many kings shall stand up from the ends of the earth.
No Themes for this verse.
Jeremiah 50:42 (show verse)
They bear bows and bucklers, cruel are they and unmerciful. Their voice roareth like the raging sea, they ride upon horses, and come weaponed to fight against thee, O Babylon.
Jeremiah 50:43 (show verse)
As soon as the king of Babylon heareth tell of them, his hands shall wax feeble: Sorrow and heaviness shall come upon him, as a woman travailing with child.
No Themes for this verse.
Jeremiah 50:44 (show verse)
Behold, like as the Lion cometh up from the pleasant meadows of Jordan unto the green pastures of Ethan, so will I drive them forth, and make them run against her. But whom shall I choose out, and ordain to such a thing? For who is like me, or who will strive with me? Or what shepherd may stand against me?
Jeremiah 50:45 (show verse)
Therefore hear the counsel that the LORD hath given upon Babylon, and the device that he hath taken upon the land of the Chaldeans. The least among the people shall tear them in pieces, and look: what pleasant thing they have, they shall lay it waste.
Jeremiah 50:46 (show verse)
The noise at the winning of Babylon shall move the earth, and the cry shall be heard among the Gentiles."