Jeremiah 51:56

The destroyer has come upon Babylon, her warriors are captured and their bows broken, for the Lord is a God of recompense who repays in full. God repays Babylon completely for her deeds.

Cross-references · 28

• Ps 46:9He makes wars to cease throughout the earth; He breaks the bow and shatters the spear; He burns the shields in the fire.
• Ps 94:1–2O LORD, God of vengeance, O God of vengeance, shine forth.
• Jer 51:6Flee from Babylon! Escape with your lives! Do not be destroyed in her punishment. For this is the time of the LORD’s vengeance; He will pay her what she deserves.
• Hab 2:8Because you have plundered many nations, the remnant of the people will plunder you—because of your bloodshed against man and your violence against the land, the city, and all their dwellers.
• Jer 51:48Then heaven and earth and all that is in them will shout for joy over Babylon because the destroyers from the north will come against her,” declares the LORD.
• Ps 76:3There He shattered the flaming arrows, the shield and sword and weapons of war. Selah
• Deut 32:35Vengeance is Mine; I will repay. In due time their foot will slip; for their day of disaster is near, and their doom is coming quickly.”
• Isa 59:18So He will repay according to their deeds: fury to His enemies, retribution to His foes, and recompense to the islands.
• Jer 51:24Before your very eyes I will repay Babylon and all the dwellers of Chaldea for all the evil they have done in Zion,” declares the LORD.
• Rev 18:5–6For her sins are piled up to heaven, and God has remembered her iniquities.
• Isa 21:2A dire vision is declared to me: “The traitor still betrays, and the destroyer still destroys. Go up, O Elam! Lay siege, O Media! I will put an end to all her groaning.”
• Jer 50:28–29Listen to the fugitives and refugees from the land of Babylon, declaring in Zion the vengeance of the LORD our God, the vengeance for His temple.
• Isa 35:4Say to those with anxious hearts: “Be strong, do not fear! Behold, your God will come with vengeance. With divine retribution He will come to save you.”
• 1 Sam 2:4The bows of the mighty are broken, but the feeble are equipped with strength.
• Jer 51:30The warriors of Babylon have stopped fighting; they sit in their strongholds. Their strength is exhausted; they have become like women. Babylon’s homes have been set ablaze, the bars of her gates are broken.
• Ps 137:8O Daughter of Babylon, doomed to destruction, blessed is he who repays you as you have done to us.
• Gen 49:24Yet he steadied his bow, and his strong arms were tempered by the hands of the Mighty One of Jacob, in the name of the Shepherd, the Rock of Israel,
• Ezek 39:9Then those who dwell in the cities of Israel will go out, kindle fires, and burn up the weapons—the bucklers and shields, the bows and arrows, the clubs and spears. For seven years they will use them for fuel.
• Ezek 39:3Then I will strike the bow from your left hand and dash down the arrows from your right hand.
• Isa 34:8For the LORD has a day of vengeance, a year of recompense for the cause of Zion.
• Jer 50:36A sword is against her false prophets, and they will become fools. A sword is against her warriors, and they will be filled with terror.
• Jer 50:10Chaldea will be plundered; all who plunder her will have their fill,” declares the LORD.
• Rev 17:16And the ten horns and the beast that you saw will hate the prostitute. They will leave her desolate and naked, and will eat her flesh and burn her with fire.
• Rev 19:2For His judgments are true and just. He has judged the great prostitute who corrupted the earth with her immorality. He has avenged the blood of His servants that was poured out by her hand.”
• 2 Th 1:6After all, it is only right for God to repay with affliction those who afflict you,
• Ps 37:15But their swords will pierce their own hearts, and their bows will be broken.
• Rev 18:20Rejoice over her, O heaven, O saints and apostles and prophets, because God has pronounced for you His judgment against her.
• Jer 49:35This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Behold, I will shatter Elam’s bow, the mainstay of their might.

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