Quotes about Judgment
The sea has come up over Babylon; she is covered in turbulent waves.
— Jeremiah 51:42
I will punish Bel in Babylon. I will make him spew out what he swallowed. The nations will no longer stream to him; even the wall of Babylon will fall.
— Jeremiah 51:44
Come out of her, My people! Save your lives, each of you, from the fierce anger of the LORD.
— Jeremiah 51:45
Therefore, behold, the days are coming when I will punish the idols of Babylon. Her entire land will suffer shame, and all her slain will lie fallen within her.
— Jeremiah 51:47
“Babylon must fall on account of the slain of Israel, just as the slain of all the earth have fallen because of Babylon.
— Jeremiah 51:49
“Therefore, behold, the days are coming,” declares the LORD, “when I will punish her idols, and throughout her land the wounded will groan.
— Jeremiah 51:52
Even if Babylon ascends to the heavens and fortifies her lofty stronghold, the destroyers I send will come against her,” declares the LORD.
— Jeremiah 51:53
“The sound of a cry comes from Babylon, the sound of great destruction from the land of the Chaldeans!
— Jeremiah 51:54
I will make her princes and wise men drunk, along with her governors, officials, and warriors. Then they will fall asleep forever and not wake up,” declares the King, whose name is the LORD of Hosts.
— Jeremiah 51:57
This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Babylon’s thick walls will be leveled, and her high gates consumed by fire. So the labor of the people will be for nothing; the nations will exhaust themselves to fuel the flames.”
— Jeremiah 51:58
Jeremiah had written on a single scroll about all the disaster that would come upon Babylon—all these words that had been written concerning Babylon.
— Jeremiah 51:60
and say, ‘O LORD, You have promised to cut off this place so that no one will remain—neither man nor beast. Indeed, it will be desolate forever.’
— Jeremiah 51:62