As Babylon has caused the slain of Israel to fall, so at Babylon shall fall the slain of all the earth. Treasury of Scripture As Babylon, etc. or, Both Babylon is to fall, O ye slain of Israel and with Babylon shall fall the slain of all the country hath Jeremiah 51:10,11,24,35 The LORD has brought forth our righteousness: come, and let us declare in Zion the work of the LORD our God... Jeremiah 50:11,17,18,29,33,34 Because you were glad, because you rejoiced, O you destroyers of my heritage, because you are grown fat as the heifer at grass... Judges 1:7 And Adonibezek said, Three score and ten kings, having their thumbs and their great toes cut off, gathered their meat under my table... Psalm 137:8,9 O daughter of Babylon, who are to be destroyed; happy shall he be, that rewards you as you have served us... Matthew 7:2 For with what judgment you judge, you shall be judged: and with what measure you mete, it shall be measured to you again. James 2:13 For he shall have judgment without mercy, that has showed no mercy; and mercy rejoices against judgment. Revelation 18:5,6 For her sins have reached to heaven, and God has remembered her iniquities...
Context Instructions for the Exiles
45My people, go you out of the middle of her, and deliver you every man his soul from the fierce anger of the LORD. 46And lest your heart faint, and you fear for the rumor that shall be heard in the land; a rumor shall both come one year, and after that in another year shall come a rumor, and violence in the land, ruler against ruler. 47Therefore, behold, the days come, that I will do judgment on the graven images of Babylon: and her whole land shall be confounded, and all her slain shall fall in the middle of her. 48Then the heaven and the earth, and all that is therein, shall sing for Babylon: for the spoilers shall come to her from the north, said the LORD. 49As Babylon has caused the slain of Israel to fall, so at Babylon shall fall the slain of all the earth. 50You that have escaped the sword, go away, stand not still: remember the LORD afar off, and let Jerusalem come into your mind. 51We are confounded, because we have heard reproach: shame has covered our faces: for strangers are come into the sanctuaries of the LORD's house. 52Why, behold, the days come, said the LORD, that I will do judgment on her graven images: and through all her land the wounded shall groan. 53Though Babylon should mount up to heaven, and though she should fortify the height of her strength, yet from me shall spoilers come to her, said the LORD. 54A sound of a cry comes from Babylon, and great destruction from the land of the Chaldeans: 55Because the LORD has spoiled Babylon, and destroyed out of her the great voice; when her waves do roar like great waters, a noise of their voice is uttered: 56Because the spoiler is come on her, even on Babylon, and her mighty men are taken, every one of their bows is broken: for the LORD God of recompenses shall surely requite. 57And I will make drunk her princes, and her wise men, her captains, and her rulers, and her mighty men: and they shall sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, said the King, whose name is the LORD of hosts. 58Thus said the LORD of hosts; The broad walls of Babylon shall be utterly broken, and her high gates shall be burned with fire; and the people shall labor in vain, and the folk in the fire, and they shall be weary. Parallel Verses American Standard Version
As Babylon hath caused the slain of Israel to fall, so at Babylon shall fall the slain of all the land.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And as Babylon caused that there should fall slain in Israel: so of Babylon there shall fall slain in all the earth.
Darby Bible Translation
As Babylon caused the slain of Israel to fall, so at Babylon shall fall the slain of all the earth.
King James Bible
As Babylon hath caused the slain of Israel to fall, so at Babylon shall fall the slain of all the earth.
Young's Literal Translation
Even Babylon is to fall, ye pierced of Israel, Even they of Babylon have fallen, Ye pierced of all the earth.
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