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Jeremiah 51:55 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" For the LORD lays Babylon waste, and destroys out of her the great voice! Their waves roar like many waters. The noise of their voice is uttered. "

Jeremiah 51:55

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53 Though Babylon should mount up to the sky, and though she should fortify the height of her strength, yet destroyers will come to her from me,” says the LORD.

54 “The sound of a cry comes from Babylon, and of great destruction from the land of the Chaldeans!

55 For the LORD lays Babylon waste, and destroys out of her the great voice! Their waves roar like many waters. The noise of their voice is uttered.

56 For the destroyer has come on her, even on Babylon. Her mighty men are taken. Their bows are broken in pieces, for the LORD is a God of retribution. He will surely repay.

57 I will make her princes, her wise men, her governors, her deputies, and her mighty men drunk. They will sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake up,” says the King, whose name is the LORD of Armies.

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Jeremiah 50:46

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"The earth trembles at the noise of the taking of Babylon. The cry is heard among the nations."

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Jeremiah 50:13

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"Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldeans’ pride, will be like when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah."

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Isaiah 43:14

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"The LORD, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel says: “For your sake, I have sent to Babylon, and I will bring all of them down as fugitives, even the Chaldeans, in the ships of their rejoicing."

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Revelation 18:21

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"A mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone and cast it into the sea, saying, “Thus with violence will Babylon, the great city, be thrown down, and will be found no more at all."

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"He cried with a mighty voice, saying, “Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great, and she has become a habitation of demons, a prison of every unclean spirit, and a prison of every unclean and hated bird!"

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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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