Isaiah 13:19 “And Babylon, the jewel of the kingdoms, the glory of the pride of the…”

Isaiah 13:19

And Babylon, the jewel of the kingdoms, the glory of the pride of the Chaldeans, will be overthrown by God like Sodom and Gomorrah.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldees’ excellency, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.

World English Bible

Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldeans’ pride, will be like when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.

American Standard Version

And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldeans’ pride, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.

Geneva Bible 1599

And Babel the glorie of kingdomes, the beautie and pride of the Chaldeans, shall be as the destruction of God in Sodom and Gomorah.

Darby Translation

And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldeans' pride, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.

Young's Literal Translation

And Babylon, the beauty of kingdoms, The glory, the excellency of the Chaldeans, Hath been as overthrown by God, With Sodom and with Gomorrah.

Bible in Basic English

And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beautiful town which is the pride of the Chaldaeans, will be like God's destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah.

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Cross references

“Babylon”

Daniel 4:30 Jeremiah 51:41 Isaiah 14:4–6 Isaiah 14:12–15 Daniel 2:37 Daniel 2:38

Daniel 4:30 · BSB

the king exclaimed, “Is this not Babylon the Great, which I myself have built as a royal residence by the might of my power and for the glory of my majesty?”

Jeremiah 51:41 · BSB

How Sheshach has been captured! The praise of all the earth has been seized. What a horror Babylon has become among the nations!

Isaiah 14:4–6 · BSB

you will sing this song of contempt against the king of Babylon: How the oppressor has ceased, and how his fury has ended!

Isaiah 14:12–15 · BSB

How you have fallen from heaven, O day star, son of the dawn! You have been cut down to the ground, O destroyer of nations.

Daniel 2:37 · BSB

You, O king, are the king of kings, to whom the God of heaven has given sovereignty, power, strength, and glory.

Daniel 2:38 · BSB

Wherever the sons of men or beasts of the field or birds of the air dwell, He has given them into your hand and has made you ruler over them all. You are that head of gold.

“when God overthrow”

Genesis 19:24 Deuteronomy 29:23 Jeremiah 49:18 Jeremiah 50:40 Zephaniah 2:9

Genesis 19:24 · BSB

Then the LORD rained down sulfur and fire on Sodom and Gomorrah—from the LORD out of the heavens.

Deuteronomy 29:23 · BSB

All its soil will be a burning waste of sulfur and salt, unsown and unproductive, with no plant growing on it, just like the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the LORD overthrew in His fierce an…

Jeremiah 49:18 · BSB

As Sodom and Gomorrah were overthrown along with their neighbors,” says the LORD, “no one will dwell there; no man will abide there.

Jeremiah 50:40 · BSB

As God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah along with their neighbors,” declares the LORD, “no one will dwell there; no man will abide there.

Zephaniah 2:9 · BSB

Therefore, as surely as I live,” declares the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, “surely Moab will be like Sodom and the Ammonites like Gomorrah— a place of weeds and salt pits, a perpetual wasteland. The remnant of My pe…

Also

Amos 4:11

Amos 4:11 · BSB

“Some of you I overthrew as I overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and you were like a firebrand snatched from a blaze, yet you did not return to Me,” declares the LORD.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

18Their bows will dash young men to pieces; they will have no mercy on the fruit of the womb; they will not look with pity on the children.

20She will never be inhabited or settled from generation to generation; no nomad will pitch his tent there, no shepherd will rest his flock there.

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