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Isa 21:9:
Jer 51:8:
8 Suddenly Bavel will fall and be destroyed.
Wail for it—give it medicine for its pain—perhaps it can be healed?
Rev 14:8:
8 Then a second messenger followed, saying, “The powerful Bavel (Babylon) has fallen into ruins,[ref] the city that caused all the nations to drink from the wine of the passion of her immorality!”
Isa 13:21:
21 But desert animals will live there,
≈ and jackals will live in the houses.
Ostrich chicks will grow there
≈ and wild goats will romp around there.
Jer 50:39:
39 So jackals and other desert animals will live there,
along with ostriches that will breed there.[ref]
People will never live there again—
future generations won’t live there.
Isa 23:17:
17 Then at the end of those seventy years, Yahweh will visit Tsor. It’ll return to hiring itself out and to her prostitution with all the world’s kingdoms on this planet.
Jer 51:7:
7 Bavel was like a golden cup in Yahweh’s hand that made all the world drunk—
nations drank its wine and went mad.[ref]
Isa 48:20:
20 Go away from Bavel (Babylon).
≈ Flee from those Kasdim (Chaldeans).[ref]
Proclaim this with a happy song.
Send it out to the ends of the earth to say:
Yahweh has paid the price to free his servant Ya’akov (Jacob).
Jer 50:8:
8 You Yehudim (Jews), leave Bavel (Babylon).
≈ Get out from the land of the Kasdim (Chaldeans).[ref]
Be like male goats that leave ahead of the rest of the flock,
51:6,45:
6 Escape quickly from out of Bavel (Babylon)—each person must save themself.
Don’t die there because of their wickedness
because now is the time of Yahweh’s vengeance.
He’ll repay Bavel for everything they’ve done.
45 Come out from Bavel, my people.
Each of you should save their own life from Yahweh’s furious anger.
Gen 18:20-21:
20 Then Yahweh said, “Because there’s so many people crying out about Sedom and Amorah (Gomorrah), and because their sin is very grievous, 21 I’ll go down there now and see if what I’ve heard about them is true, and if not, I’ll also find that out.”
Jer 51:9:
9 We tried to heal Bavel, but it never recovered,
so leave it and let everyone go back to their own region,
because its guilt has reached up to the heavens—
it’s piled up to the clouds.[ref]
Psa 137:8:
8 You daughter of Bavel (Babylon) who will be destroyed—
blessed be the one who repays you for what you did to us.[ref]
Jer 50:29:
29 Summon the archers against Bavel—all those who use bows and arrows.
Surround it completely and don’t let anyone escape.
Do to it what it did to others[ref]
because it had defied Yahweh, Yisrael’s (Israel’s) holy one,
Isa 47:7-9:
7 You said that you’d be queen forever,
but you didn’t give it enough thought—
you didn’t consider its outcome.
8 Now listen to this you over-indulged woman who lives in security,
saying in her heart, ‘No one else is important except me.
I’ll never be a widow or lose my children.’[ref]
9 But both of these things will suddenly happen to you:
Bereavement and childless will hit in one day.
They’ll come on you with completeness despite your plentiful sorceries
and the power of your multiple spells.
Eze 26:16-17:
16 Then all the leaders of the coastal kingdoms will step down from their thrones and remove their robes and take off their embroidered clothes. Instead, they’ll clothe themselves in fear, they’ll sit on the ground and tremble every moment, and they’ll be appalled because of you. 17 Then they’ll sing this song of mourning for you and say to you,
How you, who were inhabited by sailors, have been destroyed.
The famous city that was so strong, it’s now gone from the sea.
The ones living in her once spread terror around themselves on everyone who lived nearby.
Eze 27:31,36:
31 They’ll shave their heads bald for you and dress in rough sackcloth,[fn]
and they’ll weep bitterly over you and they will cry out with loud moans.
36 The merchants of the people hiss at you.
You’ve become a horror, and you won’t exist anymore.”
27:30 All of these (dust, ashes, shaving, sackcloth) are traditional signs of mourning.
Eze 27:12-13,22:
12 “Tarshish was a trading partner with you because of your abundant wealth of goods. They traded silver, iron, tin, and lead for your wares. 13 Yavan (Greece), Tuval, and Meshek traded slaves, as well as bronze items, for your merchandise. 14 Beyt-Togarmah provided horses, stallions, and mules in exchange for your products. 15 People from Dedan were your traders on many coasts. You sent the merchandise and they sent back ivory tusks and ebony wood as payment. 16 Aram (Syria) was a dealer in your many products—they provided emeralds, purple dye, coloured cloth, fine fabric, pearls, and rubies for your merchandise. 17 Yehudah (Judah) and Yisrael (Israel) were trading with you. They provided wheat from Minit, cakes, honey, oil, and balsam for your merchandise. 18 Damesek (Damascus) was a trader of all your products, of all your enormous wealth, and of the wine from Helbon and the wool from Tsahar.[fn] 19 Dan and Yavan from Uzal provided you with merchandise of wrought iron, cinnamon, and fragrant calamus seeds which became your merchandise. 20 Dedan was your dealer in woven saddle blankets. 21 Arav and all of Kedar’s leaders were traders with you—they provided you with lambs, rams, and goats. 22 Traders from Sheva and Ramah came to sell you the best of every spice and all kinds of precious gems—they traded gold for your goods.
27:18 Possibly, Tsahar (used only once in the Hebrew scriptures) could refer to the white colour of the wool.
Isa 23:14:
14 Cry loudly, you ships from Tarshish.
because your fortress has been destroyed.
Eze 27:26-30:
26 Your rowers have brought you into vast seas.
The east wind has wrecked you in the middle of them.
27 Your wealth, merchandise, and trade goods,
your sailors, pilots, and ship-builders,
your traders of merchandise and all the men of war who are in you, and all your crew—
they will sink into the depths of the sea at the time of your destruction.
28 The surroundings will shake
when they hear your pilot’s cry of distress.
29 All the oarsmen will come down off their ships.
Mariners and all the pilots on the sea will stand on the land,
30 then they’ll raise their voices towards you and will wail bitterly.
They’ll throw dust up onto their heads. They’ll roll around to get covered in ashes.
Eze 27:32:
32 They will wail loudly for you and sing funeral songs about you.
Who is like the city of Tsor (Tyre), which has now been brought to silence in the middle of the sea?
Eze 27:30-34:
30 then they’ll raise their voices towards you and will wail bitterly.
They’ll throw dust up onto their heads. They’ll roll around to get covered in ashes.
31 They’ll shave their heads bald for you and dress in rough sackcloth,[fn]
and they’ll weep bitterly over you and they will cry out with loud moans.
32 They will wail loudly for you and sing funeral songs about you.
Who is like the city of Tsor (Tyre), which has now been brought to silence in the middle of the sea?
33 When your merchandise went ashore from the sea, it pleased many people groups.
You enriched kings across the world with your great wealth and merchandise.
34 But when you were shattered by the seas, by deep waters,
your merchandise and all your crew sank.
27:30 All of these (dust, ashes, shaving, sackcloth) are traditional signs of mourning.
Deu 32:43:
43 You nations, need to appreciate his people,
because he’ll avenge the blood of his servants,
and he’ll return vengeance onto his enemies,
and then he’ll forgive his country—his people.”
Jer 51:48:
48 Then the heavens and the earth, and everyone in them will celebrate over Bavel’s fall[ref]
because destroyers from the north will come for it
Jer 51:63-64:
Yirmiyah’s messages end here.
Eze 26:21:
21 I’ll send disaster onto you, and you won’t exist anymore. Then people will look for you, but you’ll never be found again.[ref] That’s the master Yahweh’s declaration.”
Eze 26:13:
13 I’ll stop the sound of your songs, and the music from your harps won’t be heard anymore.
Isa 24:8:
8 The happy sound of the tambourines ceases.
The harp’s cheery music has gone silent.
Jer 51:49:
so too their slain will fall in Bavel.[ref]
2Ki 9:7:
7 You should attack the house of Ahav your master so Yahweh can avenge the murder of his servants, the prophets, and avenge the murder of all his servants who were killed by Izevel (Jezebel).
Isa 34:10:
10 It’ll burn night and day and its smoke will permanently go up.[ref]
It’ll be a wasteland throughout the generations
and no one will ever pass through it again.
