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 maketh wars to cease unto the end of the earth; he breaketh the bow, and cutteth the spear in sunder; he burneth the chariot in the fire.
• Ps 94:1–2O Lord God, to whom vengeance belongeth; O God, to whom vengeance belongeth, shew thyself.
• Jer 51:6Flee out of the midst of Babylon, and deliver every man his soul: be not cut off in her iniquity; for this is the time of the LORD’s vengeance; he will render unto her a recompence.
• Hab 2:8Because thou hast spoiled many nations, all the remnant of the people shall spoil thee; because of men’s blood, and for the violence of the land, of the city, and of all that dwell therein.
• Jer 51:48Then the heaven and the earth, and all that is therein, shall sing for Babylon: for the spoilers shall come unto her from the north, saith the LORD.
• Ps 76:3There brake he the arrows of the bow, the shield, and the sword, and the battle. Selah.
• Deut 32:35To me belongeth vengeance, and recompence; their foot shall slide in due time: for the day of their calamity is at hand, and the things that shall come upon them make haste.
• Isa 59:18According to their deeds, accordingly he will repay, fury to his adversaries, recompence to his enemies; to the islands he will repay recompence.
• Jer 51:24And I will render unto Babylon and to all the inhabitants of Chaldea all their evil that they have done in Zion in your sight, saith the LORD.
• Rev 18:5–6For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities.
• Isa 21:2A grievous vision is declared unto me; the treacherous dealer dealeth treacherously, and the spoiler spoileth. Go up, O Elam: besiege, O Media; all the sighing thereof have I made to cease.
• Jer 50:28–29The voice of them that flee and escape out of the land of Babylon, to declare in Zion the vengeance of the LORD our God, the vengeance of his temple.
• Isa 35:4Say to them that are of a fearful heart, Be strong, fear not: behold, your God will come with vengeance, even God with a recompence; he will come and save you.
• 1 Sam 2:4The bows of the mighty men are broken, and they that stumbled are girded with strength.
• Jer 51:30The mighty men of Babylon have forborn to fight, they have remained in their holds: their might hath failed; they became as women: they have burned her dwellingplaces; her bars are broken.
• Ps 137:8O daughter of Babylon, who art to be destroyed; happy shall he be, that rewardeth thee as thou hast served us.
• Gen 49:24But his bow abode in strength, and the arms of his hands were made strong by the hands of the mighty God of Jacob; (from thence is the shepherd, the stone of Israel:)
• Ezek 39:9And they that dwell in the cities of Israel shall go forth, and shall set on fire and burn the weapons, both the shields and the bucklers, the bows and the arrows, and the handstaves, and the spears, and they shall burn them with fire seven years:
• Ezek 39:3And I will smite thy bow out of thy left hand, and will cause thine arrows to fall out of thy right hand.
• Isa 34:8For it is the day of the LORD’s vengeance, and the year of recompences for the controversy of Zion.
• Jer 50:36A sword is upon the liars; and they shall dote: a sword is upon her mighty men; and they shall be dismayed.
• Jer 50:10And Chaldea shall be a spoil: all that spoil her shall be satisfied, saith the LORD.
• Rev 17:16And the ten horns which thou sawest upon the beast, these shall hate the whore, and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and burn her with fire.
• Rev 19:2For true and righteous are his judgments: for he hath judged the great whore, which did corrupt the earth with her fornication, and hath avenged the blood of his servants at her hand.
• 2 Th 1:6Seeing it is a righteous thing with God to recompense tribulation to them that trouble you;
• Ps 37:15Their sword shall enter into their own heart, and their bows shall be broken.
• Rev 18:20Rejoice over her, thou heaven, and ye holy apostles and prophets; for God hath avenged you on her.
• Jer 49:35Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Behold, I will break the bow of Elam, the chief of their might.

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