Discovery Box| (1.00) | Jer 50:4 |
| “When that time comes,” says the Lord, 1 “the people of Israel and Judah will return to the land together. They will come back with tears of repentance as they seek the Lord their God. 2 |
| (1.00) | Jer 50:23 |
| Babylon hammered the whole world to pieces. But see how that ‘hammer’ has been broken and shattered! 1 See what an object of horror Babylon has become among the nations! |
| (1.00) | Jer 50:25 |
| I have opened up the place where my weapons are stored. 1 I have brought out the weapons for carrying out my wrath. 2 For I, the Lord God who rules over all, 3 have work to carry out in the land of Babylonia. 4 |
| (1.00) | Jer 50:29 |
| “Call for archers 1 to come against Babylon! Summon against her all who draw the bow! Set up camp all around the city! Do not allow anyone to escape! Pay her back for what she has done. Do to her what she has done to others. For she has proudly defied me, 2 the Holy One of Israel. 3 |
| (1.00) | Jer 50:45 |
| So listen to what I, the Lord, have planned against Babylon, what I intend to do to the people who inhabit the land of Babylonia. 1 Their little ones will be dragged off. I will completely destroy their land because of what they have done. |
| (1.00) | Jer 50:46 |
| The people of the earth will quake when they hear Babylon has been captured. Her cries of anguish will be heard by the other nations.” 1 |
| (1.00) | Jer 51:2 |
| I will send people to winnow Babylonia like a wind blowing away chaff. 1 They will winnow her and strip her land bare. 2 This will happen when 3 they come against her from every direction, when it is time to destroy her. 4 |
| (1.00) | Jer 51:7 |
| Babylonia had been a gold cup in the Lord’s hand. She had made the whole world drunk. The nations had drunk from the wine of her wrath. 1 So they have all gone mad. 2 |
| (1.00) | Jer 51:10 |
| The exiles from Judah will say, 1 ‘The Lord has brought about a great deliverance for us! 2 Come on, let’s go and proclaim in Zion what the Lord our God has done!’ |
| (1.00) | Jer 51:15 |
| He is the one who 1 by his power made the earth. He is the one who by his wisdom fixed the world in place, by his understanding he spread out the heavens. |
| (1.00) | Jer 51:17 |
| All idolaters will prove to be stupid and ignorant. Every goldsmith will be disgraced by the idol he made. For the image he forges is merely a sham. There is no breath in any of those idols. |
| (1.00) | Jer 51:18 |
| They are worthless, objects to be ridiculed. When the time comes to punish them, they will be destroyed. |
| (1.00) | Jer 51:27 |
| “Raise up battle flags throughout the lands. Sound the trumpets calling the nations to do battle. Prepare the nations to do battle against Babylonia. 1 Call for these kingdoms to attack her: Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz. 2 Appoint a commander to lead the attack. 3 Send horses 4 against her like a swarm of locusts. 5 |
| (1.00) | Jer 51:28 |
| Prepare the nations to do battle against her. 1 Prepare the kings of the Medes. Prepare their governors and all their leaders. 2 Prepare all the countries they rule to do battle against her. 3 |
| (1.00) | Jer 51:31 |
| One runner after another will come to the king of Babylon. One messenger after another will come bringing news. 1 They will bring news to the king of Babylon that his whole city has been captured. 2 |
| (1.00) | Jer 51:33 |
| For the Lord God of Israel who rules over all says, ‘Fair Babylon 1 will be like a threshing floor which has been trampled flat for harvest. The time for her to be cut down and harvested will come very soon.’ 2 |
| (1.00) | Jer 51:41 |
| “See how Babylon 1 has been captured! See how the pride of the whole earth has been taken! See what an object of horror Babylon has become among the nations! 2 |
| (1.00) | Jer 51:44 |
| I will punish the god Bel in Babylon. I will make him spit out what he has swallowed. The nations will not come streaming to him any longer. Indeed, the walls of Babylon will fall.” 1 |
| (1.00) | Jer 51:49 |
| “Babylon must fall 1 because of the Israelites she has killed, 2 just as the earth’s mortally wounded fell because of Babylon. 3 |
| (1.00) | Jer 51:51 |
| ‘We 1 are ashamed because we have been insulted. 2 Our faces show our disgrace. 3 For foreigners have invaded the holy rooms 4 in the Lord’s temple.’ |
