Thematic Bible
Jeremiah 51:1 (show verse)
This is what the Lord says:
I am about to stir up a destructive wind against Babylon
and against the population of Leb-qamai.
and against the population of Leb-qamai.
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Jeremiah 51:2 (show verse)
who will scatter her and strip her land bare,
for they will come against her
from every side in the day of disaster.
Jeremiah 51:3 (show verse)
don’t let him put on
Don’t spare her young men;
completely destroy her entire army!
Jeremiah 51:4 (show verse)
those who were pierced through, in her streets.
No Themes for this verse.
Jeremiah 51:5 (show verse)
by their God, the Lord of Hosts,
though their land is full of guilt
against the Holy One of Israel.
No Themes for this verse.
Jeremiah 51:6 (show verse)
save your lives, each of you!
Don’t perish because of her guilt.
For this is the time of the Lord’s vengeance—
He will pay her what she deserves.
Jeremiah 51:7 (show verse)
making the whole earth drunk.
The nations drank her wine;
therefore, the nations go mad.
Jeremiah 51:8 (show verse)
Wail for her;
get balm
perhaps she can be healed.
Jeremiah 51:9 (show verse)
but she could not be healed.
Abandon her!
Let each of us go to his own land,
for her judgment extends to the sky
and reaches as far as the clouds.
Jeremiah 51:10 (show verse)
come, let’s tell in Zion
what the Lord our God has accomplished.
Jeremiah 51:11 (show verse)
Fill the quivers!
The Lord has put it into the mind
of the kings of the Medes
because His plan is aimed at Babylon
to destroy her,
for it is the Lord’s vengeance,
vengeance for His temple.
Jeremiah 51:12 (show verse)
against the walls of Babylon;
fortify the watch post;
set the watchmen in place;
prepare the ambush.
For the Lord has both planned and accomplished
what He has threatened
against those who live in Babylon.
Jeremiah 51:13 (show verse)
rich in treasures,
your end has come,
your life thread is cut.
Jeremiah 51:14 (show verse)
The Lord of Hosts has sworn by Himself:
I will fill you up with men as with locusts,
and they will sing the victory song over you.
and they will sing the victory song over you.
Jeremiah 51:15 (show verse)
established the world
and spread out the heavens by His understanding.
Jeremiah 51:16 (show verse)
the waters in the heavens are in turmoil,
and He causes the clouds
to rise from the ends of the earth.
He makes lightning for the rain
and brings the wind from His storehouses.
Jeremiah 51:17 (show verse)
Every goldsmith is put to shame by his carved image,
for his cast images are a lie;
there is no breath in them.
Jeremiah 51:18 (show verse)
At the time of their punishment they will be destroyed.
Jeremiah 51:19 (show verse)
because He is the One who formed all things.
Israel is the tribe of His inheritance;
Yahweh of Hosts is His name.
Jeremiah 51:20 (show verse)
My weapons of war.
With you I will smash nations;
with you I will bring kingdoms to ruin.
Jeremiah 51:21 (show verse)
with you I will smash the chariot and its rider.
Jeremiah 51:22 (show verse)
with you I will smash the old man and the youth;
with you I will smash the young man and the young woman.
Jeremiah 51:23 (show verse)
with you I will smash the farmer and his ox-team.
With you I will smash governors and officials.
Jeremiah 51:24 (show verse)
“I will repay Babylon and all the residents of Chaldea for all their evil they have done in Zion before your very eyes.”
This is the Lord’s declaration.
This is the Lord’s declaration.
Jeremiah 51:25 (show verse)
this is the Lord’s declaration—
you devastate the whole earth.
I will stretch out My hand against you,
roll you down from the cliffs,
and turn you into a charred mountain.
Jeremiah 51:26 (show verse)
or a foundation stone from you,
because you will become desolate forever.
This is the Lord’s declaration.
Jeremiah 51:27 (show verse)
blow a ram’s horn among the nations;
set apart the nations against her.
Summon kingdoms against her—
Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz.
Appoint a marshal against her;
bring up horses like a swarm
Agriculture » Foes of » Caterpillars
Ararat » A district » A district of armenia
Armenia » A region in western asia
Armies » Compared to » Caterpillars
Ashkenaz » Descendants of
Caterpillar » Sent as a judgment
Horses » Numbers of, kept for war
Minni » A district » A district of armenia
Mountains » Names of » Ararat, in armenia
Persia » Prophecies concerning
Trumpet » Used in war
Ararat » A district » A district of armenia
Armenia » A region in western asia
Armies » Compared to » Caterpillars
Ashkenaz » Descendants of
Caterpillar » Sent as a judgment
Horses » Numbers of, kept for war
Minni » A district » A district of armenia
Mountains » Names of » Ararat, in armenia
Persia » Prophecies concerning
Trumpet » Used in war
Jeremiah 51:28 (show verse)
the kings of Media,
her governors and all her officials,
and all the lands they rule.
Jeremiah 51:29 (show verse)
because the Lord’s intentions against Babylon stand:
to make the land of Babylon an uninhabited desolation.
Jeremiah 51:30 (show verse)
they sit in their strongholds.
Their might is exhausted;
they have become like women.
Babylon’s homes have been set ablaze,
her gate bars are shattered.
Effeminacy » General references to
Persia » Prophecies concerning
Powerlessness » Of men, often due to sin and unbelief » Babylon enervated by idolatry
human Weakness » Powerlessness of men, often due to sin and unbelief » Effeminacy, general references to
human Weakness » Powerlessness of men, often due to sin and unbelief » Babylon enervated by idolatry
Woman » Characterized as » Timid
Women » Are timid
Persia » Prophecies concerning
Powerlessness » Of men, often due to sin and unbelief » Babylon enervated by idolatry
human Weakness » Powerlessness of men, often due to sin and unbelief » Effeminacy, general references to
human Weakness » Powerlessness of men, often due to sin and unbelief » Babylon enervated by idolatry
Woman » Characterized as » Timid
Women » Are timid
Jeremiah 51:31 (show verse)
and herald to meet herald,
to announce to the king of Babylon
that his city has been captured
from end to end.
Jeremiah 51:32 (show verse)
the marshes set on fire,
and the soldiers are terrified.
Jeremiah 51:33 (show verse)
For this is what the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel, says:
Daughter Babylon is like a threshing floor
at the time it is trampled.
In just a little while her harvest time will come.
at the time it is trampled.
In just a little while her harvest time will come.
Jeremiah 51:34 (show verse)
he has crushed me.
He has set me aside like an empty dish;
he has swallowed me like a sea monster;
he filled his belly with my delicacies;
he has vomited me out,”
Jeremiah 51:35 (show verse)
“Let the violence done to me and my family be done to Babylon.
Let my blood be on the inhabitants of Chaldea,”
says Jerusalem.
Jeremiah 51:36 (show verse)
Therefore, this is what the Lord says:
I am about to plead your case
and take vengeance on your behalf;
I will dry up her sea
and make her fountain run dry.
and take vengeance on your behalf;
I will dry up her sea
and make her fountain run dry.
Jeremiah 51:37 (show verse)
a jackals’ den,
a desolation and an object of scorn,
without inhabitant.
Jeremiah 51:38 (show verse)
they will growl like lion cubs.
Jeremiah 51:39 (show verse)
and I will make them drunk so that they revel.
Then they will fall asleep forever
and never wake up.
This is the Lord’s declaration.
Jeremiah 51:40 (show verse)
like rams together with male goats.
Jeremiah 51:41 (show verse)
the praise
What a horror Babylon has become
among the nations!
Jeremiah 51:42 (show verse)
she is covered with its turbulent waves.
Jeremiah 51:43 (show verse)
a dry and arid land,
a land where no one lives,
where no human being passes through.
Jeremiah 51:44 (show verse)
I will make him vomit what he swallowed.
The nations will no longer stream to him;
even Babylon’s wall will fall.
Jeremiah 51:45 (show verse)
Save your lives, each of you,
from the Lord’s burning anger.
Jeremiah 51:46 (show verse)
when the report is proclaimed in the land,
for the report will come one year,
and then another the next year.
There will be violence in the land
with ruler against ruler.
Jeremiah 51:47 (show verse)
when I will punish Babylon’s carved images.
Her entire land will suffer shame,
and all her slain will lie fallen within her.
Jeremiah 51:48 (show verse)
will shout for joy
because the destroyers from the north
will come against her.
This is the Lord’s declaration.
Jeremiah 51:49 (show verse)
even as the slain of all the earth fell
because of Babylon.
Jeremiah 51:50 (show verse)
go and do not stand still!
Remember the Lord from far away,
and let Jerusalem come to your mind.
Jeremiah 51:51 (show verse)
because we have heard insults.
Humiliation covers our faces
because foreigners have entered
the holy places of the Lord’s temple.
Jeremiah 51:52 (show verse)
this is the Lord’s declaration—
when I will punish her carved images,
and the wounded will groan
throughout her land.
Jeremiah 51:53 (show verse)
and fortify her tall fortresses,
destroyers will come against her from Me.
This is the Lord’s declaration.
Jeremiah 51:54 (show verse)
The sound of great destruction
from the land of the Chaldeans!
Jeremiah 51:55 (show verse)
He will silence her mighty voice.
Their waves roar like abundant waters;
the tumult of their voice resounds,
Jeremiah 51:56 (show verse)
against Babylon.
Her warriors will be captured,
their bows shattered,
for the Lord is a God of retribution;
He will certainly repay.
Jeremiah 51:57 (show verse)
along with her governors, officials, and warriors.
Then they will fall asleep forever
and never wake up.
This is the King’s declaration;
Yahweh of Hosts is His name.
Jeremiah 51:58 (show verse)
This is what Yahweh of Hosts says:
Babylon’s thick walls will be totally demolished,
and her high gates consumed by fire.
The peoples will have labored for nothing;
the nations will exhaust themselves only to feed the fire.
and her high gates consumed by fire.
The peoples will have labored for nothing;
the nations will exhaust themselves only to feed the fire.
Jeremiah 51:59 (show verse)
This is what Jeremiah the prophet commanded Seraiah son of Neriah son of Mahseiah, the quartermaster, when he went to Babylon with King Zedekiah of Judah in the fourth year of Zedekiah’s reign.
Euphrates » Casts the scroll containing the prophecies against babylon into
Jeremiah » The prophet » Book of the prophecies of, delivered to seraiah, with a charge from jeremiah
Maaseiah » Grandfather of baruch
Persia » Prophecies concerning
Seraiah » A servant of zedekiah
Zedekiah » Made king of judah by nebuchadnezzar » Nebuchadnezzar destroys the city and temple, takes him captive to babylon, blinds his eyes, kills his sons
Jeremiah » The prophet » Book of the prophecies of, delivered to seraiah, with a charge from jeremiah
Maaseiah » Grandfather of baruch
Persia » Prophecies concerning
Seraiah » A servant of zedekiah
Zedekiah » Made king of judah by nebuchadnezzar » Nebuchadnezzar destroys the city and temple, takes him captive to babylon, blinds his eyes, kills his sons
Jeremiah 51:60 (show verse)
Jeremiah wrote on one scroll about all the disaster that would come to Babylon; all these words were written against Babylon.
Jeremiah 51:61 (show verse)
Jeremiah told Seraiah, “When you get to Babylon, see that you read all these words aloud.
Jeremiah 51:62 (show verse)
You must say, ‘Lord, You have threatened to cut off this place so that no one will live in it—man or beast. Indeed, it will remain desolate forever.’
Jeremiah 51:63 (show verse)
When you have finished reading this scroll, tie a stone to it and throw it into the middle of the Euphrates River.
Euphrates » Casts the scroll containing the prophecies against babylon into
Euphrates, the » Prophecies respecting babylon thrown into, as a sign
Jeremiah » The prophet » Book of the prophecies of, delivered to seraiah, with a charge from jeremiah
Persia » Prophecies concerning
Prophets » Frequently in their actions, &c were made signs to the people
Symbols and similitudes » The book thrown into the euphrates river
Euphrates, the » Prophecies respecting babylon thrown into, as a sign
Jeremiah » The prophet » Book of the prophecies of, delivered to seraiah, with a charge from jeremiah
Persia » Prophecies concerning
Prophets » Frequently in their actions, &c were made signs to the people
Symbols and similitudes » The book thrown into the euphrates river
Jeremiah 51:64 (show verse)
Then say, ‘In the same way, Babylon will sink and never rise again because of the disaster I am bringing on her. They will grow weary.’”
The words of Jeremiah end here.
The words of Jeremiah end here.