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Jeremiah 51:12 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" Set up a standard against the walls of Babylon! Make the watch strong! Set the watchmen, and prepare the ambushes; for the LORD has both purposed and done that which he spoke concerning the inhabitants of Babylon. "

Jeremiah 51:12

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10 ‘The LORD has produced our righteousness. Come, and let’s declare in Zion the work of the LORD our God.’

11 “Make the arrows sharp! Hold the shields firmly! The LORD has stirred up the spirit of the kings of the Medes, because his purpose is against Babylon, to destroy it; for it is the vengeance of the LORD, the vengeance of his temple.

12 Set up a standard against the walls of Babylon! Make the watch strong! Set the watchmen, and prepare the ambushes; for the LORD has both purposed and done that which he spoke concerning the inhabitants of Babylon.

13 You who dwell on many waters, abundant in treasures, your end has come, the measure of your covetousness.

14 The LORD of Armies has sworn by himself, saying, ‘Surely I will fill you with men, as with locusts, and they will lift up a shout against you.’

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Jeremiah 50:29

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"“Call together the archers against Babylon, all those who bend the bow. Encamp against her all around. Let none of it escape. Pay her back according to her work. According to all that she has done, do to her; for she has been proud against the LORD, against the Holy One of Israel."

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Jeremiah 50:14

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"Set yourselves in array against Babylon all around, all you who bend the bow; shoot at her. Spare no arrows, for she has sinned against the LORD."

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Isaiah 48:14

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"“Assemble yourselves, all of you, and hear! Who among them has declared these things? He whom the LORD loves will do what he likes to Babylon, and his arm will be against the Chaldeans."

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Isaiah 62:6

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"I have set watchmen on your walls, Jerusalem. They will never be silent day nor night. You who call on the LORD, take no rest,"

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2 Kings 20:17

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"‘Behold, the days come that all that is in your house, and that which your fathers have laid up in store to this day, will be carried to Babylon. Nothing will be left,’ says the LORD."

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Psalms 127:1

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"Unless the LORD builds the house, they who build it labor in vain. Unless the LORD watches over the city, the watchman guards it in vain."

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Jeremiah 51:1

"The LORD says: “Behold, I will raise up against Babylon, and against those who dwell in Lebkamai, a destroying wind."

Jeremiah 51:2

"I will send to Babylon strangers, who will winnow her. They will empty her land; for in the day of trouble they will be against her all around."

Jeremiah 51:3

"Against him who bends, let the archer bend his bow, also against him who lifts himself up in his coat of mail. Don’t spare her young men! Utterly destroy all her army!"

Jeremiah 51:4

"They will fall down slain in the land of the Chaldeans, and thrust through in her streets."

Jeremiah 51:5

"For Israel is not forsaken, nor Judah, by his God, by the LORD of Armies; though their land is full of guilt against the Holy One of Israel."

Jeremiah 51:6

"“Flee out of the middle of Babylon! Everyone save his own life! Don’t be cut off in her iniquity, for it is the time of the LORD’s vengeance. He will give to her a recompense."

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