Jeremiah 51:34

Jerusalem laments that Nebuchadnezzar devoured and crushed her, swallowing her like a monster and casting her out. God's people voice the cruelty they suffered under Babylon.

Cross-references · 18

• Jer 50:17Israel is a scattered flock, chased away by lions. The first to devour him was the king of Assyria; the last to crush his bones was Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon.”
• Jer 51:44I will punish Bel in Babylon. I will make him spew out what he swallowed. The nations will no longer stream to him; even the wall of Babylon will fall.
• Isa 24:1–3Behold, the LORD lays waste the earth and leaves it in ruins. He will twist its surface and scatter its inhabitants—
• Job 20:15He swallows wealth but vomits it out; God will force it from his stomach.
• Matt 23:13Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You shut the kingdom of heaven in men’s faces. You yourselves do not enter, nor will you let in those who wish to enter.
• Lam 1:1How lonely lies the city, once so full of people! She who was great among the nations has become a widow. The princess of the provinces has become a slave.
• Ezek 36:3therefore prophesy and declare that this is what the Lord GOD says: Because they have made you desolate and have trampled you on every side, so that you became a possession of the rest of the nations and were taken up in slander by the lips of their talkers,
• Lam 2:16All your enemies open their mouths against you. They hiss and gnash their teeth, saying, “We have swallowed her up. This is the day for which we have waited. We have lived to see it!”
• Nah 2:2For the LORD will restore the splendor of Jacob like the splendor of Israel, though destroyers have laid them waste and ruined the branches of their vine.
• Amos 8:4Hear this, you who trample the needy, who do away with the poor of the land,
• Jer 48:11–12Moab has been at ease from youth, settled like wine on its dregs; he has not been poured from vessel to vessel or gone into exile. So his flavor has remained the same, and his aroma is unchanged.
• Lam 1:14–15My transgressions are bound into a yoke, knit together by His hand; they are draped over my neck, and the Lord has broken my strength. He has delivered me into the hands of those I cannot withstand.
• Jer 51:49“Babylon must fall on account of the slain of Israel, just as the slain of all the earth have fallen because of Babylon.
• Isa 34:11The desert owl and screech owl will possess it, and the great owl and raven will dwell in it. The LORD will stretch out over Edom a measuring line of chaos and a plumb line of destruction.
• Prov 1:12let us swallow them alive like Sheol, and whole like those descending into the Pit.
• Nah 2:9–10“Plunder the silver! Plunder the gold!” There is no end to the treasure, an abundance of every precious thing.
• Jer 50:7All who found them devoured them, and their enemies said, ‘We are not guilty, for they have sinned against the LORD, their true pasture, the LORD, the hope of their fathers.’
• Jer 39:1–8In the ninth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the tenth month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon marched against Jerusalem with his entire army and laid siege to the city.

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