Chaldea shall be a prey. All who prey on her shall be satisfied,” says Yahweh.
Parallel translations
- KJV And Chaldea shall be a spoil: all that spoil her shall be satisfied, saith the LORD.
- BSB Chaldea will be plundered; all who plunder her will have their fill,” declares the LORD.
- NKJV And Chaldea shall become plunder; All who plunder her shall be satisfied,” says the Lord.
- NASB “Chaldea will become plunder; All who plunder her will have enough,” declares the Lord.
- NLT Babylonia will be looted until the attackers are glutted with loot. I, the Lord, have spoken!
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Quick answer
Chaldea will be plundered, and all who plunder it will be satisfied with spoil. The plunderer of nations is herself plundered.
Overview
Babylon, which had grown rich by despoiling others, is now handed over to be looted. The principle of just recompense governs the oracle: as she did to others, so it is done to her. This reflects the moral order God upholds, in which oppressors finally reap what they have sown (Obadiah 15).
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 6
- Jer 25:12“It shall happen, when seventy years are accomplished, that I will punish the king of Babylon, and that nation,” says Yahweh, “for their iniquity, and the land of the Chaldeans; and I will make it desolate forever.
- Jer 27:7All the nations will serve him, and his son, and his son’s son, until the time of his own land comes. Then many nations and great kings will make him their bondservant.
- Isa 33:4Your plunder will be gathered as the caterpillar gathers. Men will leap on it as locusts leap.
- Isa 45:3I will give you the treasures of darkness, and hidden riches of secret places, that you may know that it is I, Yahweh, who call you by your name, even the God of Israel.
- Rev 17:16The ten horns which you saw, and the beast, these will hate the prostitute, and will make her desolate, and will make her naked, and will eat her flesh, and will burn her utterly with fire.
- Isa 33:23Your rigging is untied. They couldn’t strengthen the foot of their mast. They couldn’t spread the sail. Then the prey of a great plunder was divided. The lame took the prey.
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