Thematic Bible: Remarkable for


Thematic Bible



A sword is on all the mixed people in her, and they will become like women: a sword is on her store-houses, and they will be taken by her attackers.

O you whose living-place is by the wide waters, whose stores are great, your end is come, your evil profit is ended.


Their arrows give certain death, they are all men of war.

How is the hammer of all the earth cut in two and broken! how has Babylon become a waste among the nations!


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.

How is Babylon taken! and the praise of all the earth surprised! how has Babylon become a cause of wonder among the nations!


For you had faith in your evil-doing; you said, No one sees me; by your wisdom and knowledge you have been turned out of the way: and you have said in your heart, I am, and there is no other.

A sword is on the Chaldaeans, says the Lord, and on the people of Babylon, and on her rulers and on her wise men.


See, I will send you a nation from far away, O people of Israel, says the Lord; a strong nation and an old nation, a nation whose language is strange to you, so that you may not get the sense of their words.


The Lord, who has taken up your cause, the Holy One of Israel, says, Because of you I have sent to Babylon, and made all their seers come south, and the Chaldaeans whose cry is in the ships.


Biting off the highest of its young branches, he took it to the land of Canaan, and put it in a town of traders.


When I saw among their goods a fair robe of Babylon and two hundred shekels of silver, and a mass of gold, fifty shekels in weight, I was overcome by desire and took them; and they are put away in the earth in my tent, and the silver is under it.


Basic English, produced by Mr C. K. Ogden of the Orthological Institute - public domain