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 50:17“Israel is a hunted sheep. The lions have driven him away. First, the king of Assyria devoured him, and now at last Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has broken his bones.”
• Jer 51:44I will execute judgment on Bel in Babylon, and I will bring out of his mouth that which he has swallowed up. The nations shall not flow any more to him. Yes, the wall of Babylon will fall.
• Isa 24:1–3Behold, Yahweh makes the earth empty, makes it waste, turns it upside down, and scatters its inhabitants.
• Job 20:15He has swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again. God will cast them out of his belly.
• Matt 23:13“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you devour widows’ houses, and as a pretense you make long prayers. Therefore you will receive greater condemnation.
• Lam 1:1How the city sits solitary, that was full of people! She has become as a widow, who was great among the nations! She who was a princess among the provinces has become tributary!
• Ezek 36:3therefore prophesy, and say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because, even because they have made you desolate, and swallowed you up on every side, that you might be a possession to the residue of the nations, and you are taken up in the lips of talkers, and the evil report of the people;
• Lam 2:16All your enemies have opened their mouth wide against you. They hiss and gnash the teeth. They say, “We have swallowed her up. Certainly this is the day that we looked for. We have found it. We have seen it.”
• Nah 2:2For Yahweh restores the excellency of Jacob, as the excellency of Israel; for the destroyers have destroyed them, and ruined their vine branches.
• Amos 8:4Hear this, you who desire to swallow up the needy, and cause the poor of the land to fail,
• Jer 48:11–12“Moab has been at ease from his youth, and he has settled on his lees, and has not been emptied from vessel to vessel, neither has he gone into captivity: therefore his taste remains in him, and his scent is not changed.
• Lam 1:14–15“The yoke of my transgressions is bound by his hand; They are knit together. They have come up on my neck. He has made my strength to fail. The Lord has delivered me into their hands, against whom I am not able to stand.
• Jer 51:49“As Babylon has caused the slain of Israel to fall, so the slain of all the land will fall at Babylon.
• Isa 34:11But the pelican and the porcupine will possess it. The owl and the raven will dwell in it. He will stretch the line of confusion over it, and the plumb line of emptiness.
• Prov 1:12Let’s swallow them up alive like Sheol, and whole, like those who go down into the pit.
• Nah 2:9–10Take the plunder of silver. Take the plunder of gold, for there is no end of the store, the glory of all goodly furniture.
• Jer 50:7All who found them have devoured them; and their adversaries said, ‘We are not guilty, because they have sinned against Yahweh, the habitation of righteousness, even Yahweh, the hope of their fathers.’
• Jer 39:1–8When Jerusalem was taken, (in the ninth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the tenth month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and all his army came against Jerusalem, and besieged it.

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