Verse (Click for Chapter) Good News Translation Bring a drought on its land and dry up its rivers. Babylonia is a land of terrifying idols that have made fools of the people. New Revised Standard Version Contemporary English Version New American Bible Douay-Rheims Bible Treasury of Scripture Knowledge A drought upon her waters, and they shall be dried up: because it is a land of idols, and they glory in monstrous things. A drought Jeremiah 50:12 Your mother is confounded exceedingly, and she that bore you is made even with the dust: behold she shall be the last among the nations, a wilderness unpassable, and dry. Jeremiah 51:32-36 And that the fords are taken, and the marshes are burnt with fire, and the men of war are affrighted. . . . Isaiah 44:27 Who say to the deep: Be thou desolate, and I will dry up thy rivers. Revelation 16:12 And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon that great river Euphrates and dried up the water thereof, that a way might be prepared for the kings from the rising of the sun. Revelation 17:15,16 And he said to me: The waters which thou sawest, where the harlot sitteth, are peoples and nations and tongues. . . . the land Jeremiah 50:2 Declare ye among the nations, and publish it, lift up a standard: proclaim, and conceal it not: say: Babylon is taken, Bel is confounded, Merodach is overthrown, their graven things are confounded, their idols are overthrown. Jeremiah 51:44,47,52 And I will visit against Bel in Babylon, and I will bring forth out of his mouth that which he had swallowed down: and the nations shall no more flow together to him, for the wall also of Babylon shall fall. . . . Isaiah 46:1-7 In the Lord shall all the seed of Israel be justified and praised. . . . Daniel 3:1-30 King Nabuchodonosor made a statue of gold, of sixty cubits high, and six cubits broad, and he set it up in the plain of Dura, of the province of Babylon. . . . Daniel 5:4 They drank wine, and praised their gods of gold, and of silver, of brass, of iron, and of wood, and of stone. Habakkuk 2:18,19 What doth the graven thing avail, because the maker thereof hath graven it, a molten, and a false image? because the forger thereof hath trusted in a thing of his own forging, to make dumb idols. . . . Revelation 17:5 And on her forehead a name was written: A mystery: Babylon the great, the mother of the fornications and the abominations of the earth. mad Jeremiah 51:7 Babylon hath been a golden cup in the hand of the Lord, that made all the earth drunk: the nations have drunk of her wine, and therefore they have staggered. Isaiah 44:25 That make void the tokens of diviners, and make the soothsayers mad. That turn the wise backward, and that make their knowledge foolish. Acts 17:16 Now whilst Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit was stirred within him, seeing the city wholly given to idolatry. Context The Destruction of Babylon…37A sword upon their horses, and upon their chariots, and upon all the people that are in the midst of her: and they shall become as women: a sword upon her treasures, and they shall be made a spoil. 38A drought upon her waters, and they shall be dried up: because it is a land of idols, and they glory in monstrous things.39Therefore shall dragons dwell there with the fig fauns: and ostriches shall dwell therein, and it shall be no more inhabited for ever, neither shall it be built up from generation to generation.… Cross References Revelation 16:12 And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon that great river Euphrates and dried up the water thereof, that a way might be prepared for the kings from the rising of the sun. Isaiah 44:27 Who say to the deep: Be thou desolate, and I will dry up thy rivers. Isaiah 46:1 In the Lord shall all the seed of Israel be justified and praised. Isaiah 46:6 To whom have you likened me, and made me equal, and compared me, and made me like? Jeremiah 51:32 And that the fords are taken, and the marshes are burnt with fire, and the men of war are affrighted. Jeremiah 51:36 Therefore thus saith the Lord: Behold I will judge thy cause, and will take vengeance for thee, and I will make her sea desolate, I and will dry up her spring. Jeremiah 51:52 Therefore behold the days come, saith the Lord, and I will visit her graven things, and in all her land the wounded shall groan: Jump to Previous Boast Dried Drought Drouth Dry Drying Engraved Fearsome Fixed Frightful Gods Graven Horror Idols Images Mad Minds Sword Terror Themselves WatersJump to Next Boast Dried Drought Drouth Dry Drying Engraved Fearsome Fixed Frightful Gods Graven Horror Idols Images Mad Minds Sword Terror Themselves WatersLinks Jeremiah 50:38 NIVJeremiah 50:38 NLT Jeremiah 50:38 ESV Jeremiah 50:38 NASB Jeremiah 50:38 Bible Apps Jeremiah 50:38 Biblia Paralela Jeremiah 50:38 Chinese Bible Jeremiah 50:38 French Bible Jeremiah 50:38 German Bible Alphabetical: A and are be dried drought dry fearsome For go her idols is it land mad of on over terror that They up waters will with OT Prophets: Jeremiah 50:38 A drought is on her waters (Jer.) Bible Study Resources, Dictionary, Concordance and Search Tools |