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 cease to the end of the earth. He breaks the bow, and shatters the spear. He burns the chariots in the fire.
• Ps 94:1–2Yahweh, you God to whom vengeance belongs, you God to whom vengeance belongs, shine out.
• Jer 51:6“Flee out of the middle of Babylon! Everyone save his own life! Don’t be cut off in her iniquity; for it is the time of Yahweh’s vengeance. He will render to her a recompense.
• Hab 2:8Because you have plundered many nations, all the remnant of the peoples will plunder you, because of men’s blood, and for the violence done to the land, to the city and to all who dwell in it.
• Jer 51:48Then the heavens and the earth, and all that is therein, will sing for joy over Babylon; for the destroyers will come to her from the north,” says Yahweh.
• Ps 76:3There he broke the flaming arrows of the bow, the shield, and the sword, and the weapons of war. Selah.
• Deut 32:35Vengeance is mine, and recompense, at the time when their foot slides; for the day of their calamity is at hand. Their doom rushes at them.”
• Isa 59:18According to their deeds, he will repay as appropriate, wrath to his adversaries, recompense to his enemies; he will repay the islands their due.
• Jer 51:24“I will render to Babylon and to all the inhabitants of Chaldea all their evil that they have done in Zion in your sight,” says Yahweh.
• Rev 18:5–6for her sins have reached to the sky, and God has remembered her iniquities.
• Isa 21:2A grievous vision is declared to me. The treacherous man deals treacherously, and the destroyer destroys. Go up, Elam; attack! I have stopped all of Media’s sighing.
• Jer 50:28–29Listen to those who flee and escape out of the land of Babylon, to declare in Zion the vengeance of Yahweh our God, the vengeance of his temple.
• Isa 35:4Tell those who have a fearful heart, “Be strong. Don’t be afraid. Behold, your God will come with vengeance, God’s retribution. He will come and save you.
• 1 Sam 2:4“The bows of the mighty men are broken. Those who stumbled are armed with strength.
• Jer 51:30The mighty men of Babylon have stopped fighting, they remain in their strongholds. Their might has failed. They have become as women. Her dwelling places are set on fire. Her bars are broken.
• Ps 137:8Daughter of Babylon, doomed to destruction, he will be happy who rewards you, as you have served us.
• Gen 49:24But his bow remained strong. The arms of his hands were made strong, by the hands of the Mighty One of Jacob, (from there is the shepherd, the stone of Israel),
• Ezek 39:9Those who dwell in the cities of Israel shall go out, and shall make fires of the weapons and burn them, both the shields and the bucklers, the bows and the arrows, and the war clubs, and the spears, and they shall make fires of them seven years;
• Ezek 39:3and I will strike your bow out of your left hand, and will cause your arrows to fall out of your right hand.
• Isa 34:8For Yahweh has a day of vengeance, a year of recompense for the cause of Zion.
• Jer 50:36A sword is on the boasters, and they will become fools. A sword is on her mighty men, and they will be dismayed.
• Jer 50:10Chaldea shall be a prey. All who prey on her shall be satisfied,” says Yahweh.
• 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.
• Rev 19:2for true and righteous are his judgments. For he has judged the great prostitute, who corrupted the earth with her sexual immorality, and he has avenged the blood of his servants at her hand.”
• 2 Th 1:6Since it is a righteous thing with God to repay affliction to those who afflict you,
• Ps 37:15Their sword shall enter into their own heart. Their bows shall be broken.
• Rev 18:20“Rejoice over her, O heaven, you saints, apostles, and prophets; for God has judged your judgment on her.”
• Jer 49:35“Yahweh of Armies says: ‘Behold, I will break the bow of Elam, the chief of their might.

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