Jeremiah 50:26 “Come against her from the farthest border. Break open her granaries; p…”

Jeremiah 50:26

Come against her from the farthest border. Break open her granaries; pile her up like mounds of grain. Devote her to destruction; leave her no survivors.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Come against her from the utmost border, open her storehouses: cast her up as heaps, and destroy her utterly: let nothing of her be left.

World English Bible

Come against her from the farthest border. Open her storehouses. Cast her up as heaps. Destroy her utterly. Let nothing of her be left.

American Standard Version

Come against her from the utmost border; open her store-houses; cast her up as heaps, and destroy her utterly; let nothing of her be left.

Geneva Bible 1599

Come against her from the vtmost border: open her store houses: treade on her as on sheaues, and destroy her vtterly: let nothing of her be left.

Darby Translation

Come ye against her from every quarter, open her storehouses; pile her up like sheaves, and destroy her utterly: let nothing of her be left.

Young's Literal Translation

Come ye in to her from the extremity, Open ye her storehouses, Raise her up as heaps, and devote her, Let her have no remnant.

Bible in Basic English

Come up against her one and all, let her store-houses be broken open: make her into a mass of stones, give her to the curse, till there is nothing of her to be seen.

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Cross references

“against”

Jeremiah 50:41 Isaiah 5:26 Jeremiah 51:27 Jeremiah 51:28

Jeremiah 50:41 · BSB

Behold, an army is coming from the north; a great nation and many kings are stirred up from the ends of the earth.

Isaiah 5:26 · BSB

He lifts a banner for the distant nations and whistles for those at the ends of the earth. Behold—how speedily and swiftly they come!

Jeremiah 51:27 · BSB

“Raise a banner in the land! Blow the ram’s horn among the nations! Prepare the nations against her. Summon the kingdoms against her— Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz. Appoint a captain against her; bring up horses like swarm…

Jeremiah 51:28 · BSB

Prepare the nations for battle against her— the kings of the Medes, their governors and all their officials, and all the lands they rule.

“open”

Jeremiah 50:10 Isaiah 45:3 Jeremiah 51:44

Jeremiah 50:10 · BSB

Chaldea will be plundered; all who plunder her will have their fill,” declares the LORD.

Isaiah 45:3 · BSB

I will give you the treasures of darkness and the riches hidden in secret places, so that you may know that I am the LORD, the God of Israel, who calls you by name.

Jeremiah 51:44 · BSB

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.

“cast her up”

Isaiah 10:6 Isaiah 25:10 Micah 7:10 Revelation 14:19 Revelation 19:15 Isaiah 63:3

Isaiah 10:6 · BSB

I will send him against a godless nation; I will dispatch him against a people destined for My rage, to take spoils and seize plunder, and to trample them down like clay in the streets.

Isaiah 25:10 · BSB

For the hand of the LORD will rest on this mountain. But Moab will be trampled in his place as straw is trodden into the dung pile.

Micah 7:10 · BSB

Then my enemy will see and will be covered with shame— she who said to me, “Where is the LORD your God?” My eyes will see her; at that time she will be trampled like mud in the streets.

Revelation 14:19 · BSB

So the angel swung his sickle over the earth and gathered the grapes of the earth, and he threw them into the great winepress of God’s wrath.

Revelation 19:15 · BSB

And from His mouth proceeds a sharp sword with which to strike down the nations, and He will rule them with an iron scepter. He treads the winepress of the fury of the wrath of God the Almighty.

Isaiah 63:3 · BSB

“I have trodden the winepress alone, and no one from the nations was with Me. I trampled them in My anger and trod them down in My fury; their blood spattered My garments, and all My clothes were stained.

“destroy”

Isaiah 14:23 Jeremiah 50:13 Jeremiah 50:15 Jeremiah 50:23 Jeremiah 51:64 Revelation 18:21–24

Isaiah 14:23 · BSB

“I will make her a place for owls and for swamplands; I will sweep her away with the broom of destruction,” declares the LORD of Hosts.

Jeremiah 50:13 · BSB

Because of the wrath of the LORD, she will not be inhabited; she will become completely desolate. All who pass through Babylon will be horrified and will hiss at all her wounds.

Jeremiah 50:15 · BSB

Raise a war cry against her on every side! She has thrown up her hands in surrender; her towers have fallen; her walls are torn down. Since this is the vengeance of the LORD, take out your vengeance upon her; as she has…

Jeremiah 50:23 · BSB

How the hammer of the whole earth lies broken and shattered! What a horror Babylon has become among the nations!

Jeremiah 51:64 · BSB

Then you are to say, ‘In the same way Babylon will sink and never rise again, because of the disaster I will bring upon her. And her people will grow weary.’” Here end the words of Jeremiah.

Revelation 18:21–24 · BSB

Then a mighty angel picked up a stone the size of a great millstone and cast it into the sea, saying: “With such violence the great city of Babylon will be cast down, never to be seen again.

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

In context

25The LORD has opened His armory and brought out His weapons of wrath, for this is the work of the Lord GOD of Hosts in the land of the Chaldeans.

27Kill all her young bulls; let them go down to the slaughter. Woe to them, for their day has come— the time of their punishment.

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