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Jeremiah 51:36 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" Therefore the LORD says: “Behold, I will plead your cause, and take vengeance for you. I will dry up her sea, and make her fountain dry. "

Jeremiah 51:36

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34 “Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon has devoured me. He has crushed me. He has made me an empty vessel. He has, like a monster, swallowed me up. He has filled his mouth with my delicacies. He has cast me out.

35 May the violence done to me and to my flesh be on Babylon!” the inhabitant of Zion will say; and, “May my blood be on the inhabitants of Chaldea!” will Jerusalem say.

36 Therefore the LORD says: “Behold, I will plead your cause, and take vengeance for you. I will dry up her sea, and make her fountain dry.

37 Babylon will become heaps, a dwelling place for jackals, an astonishment, and a hissing, without inhabitant.

38 They will roar together like young lions. They will growl as lions’ cubs.

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Nahum 2:13

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"“Behold, I am against you,” says the LORD of Armies, “and I will burn her chariots in the smoke, and the sword will devour your young lions; and I will cut off your prey from the earth, and the voice of your messengers will no longer be heard.”"

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Jeremiah 19:7

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"“‘“I will make the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem void in this place. I will cause them to fall by the sword before their enemies, and by the hand of those who seek their life. I will give their dead bodies to be food for the birds of the sky and for the animals of the earth."

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Isaiah 44:27

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"who says to the deep, ‘Be dry,’ and ‘I will dry up your rivers,’"

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Jeremiah 21:14

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"I will punish you according to the fruit of your doings,’ says the LORD; ‘and I will kindle a fire in her forest, and it will devour all that is around her.’”"

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Psalms 35:1

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"Contend, LORD, with those who contend with me. Fight against those who fight against me."

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Lamentations 3:58

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"Lord, you have pleaded the causes of my soul. You have redeemed my life."

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From This Chapter

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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