Bible Cross References
mother
Jeremiah 49:2
But the time is coming when I will make the people of the capital city of Rabbah hear the noise of battle, and it will be left in ruins and its villages burned to the ground. Then Israel will take its land back from those who took it from them.
Galatians 4:26
But the heavenly Jerusalem is free, and she is our mother.
Revelation 17:5
On her forehead was written a name that has a secret meaning: "Great Babylon, the mother of all prostitutes and perverts in the world."
the hindermost
Jeremiah 25:26
Isaiah 23:13
(It was the Babylonians, not the Assyrians, who let the wild animals overrun Tyre. It was the Babylonians who put up siege towers, tore down the fortifications of Tyre, and left the city in ruins. )
a wilderness
Jeremiah 50:35-40
35
The LORD says, "Death to Babylonia! Death to its people, to its rulers, to its people of wisdom.
36
Death to its lying prophets--- what fools they are! Death to its soldiers--- how terrified they are!
37
Destroy its horses and chariots! Death to its hired soldiers--- how weak they are! Destroy its treasures; plunder and loot.
38
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.
39
"And so Babylon will be haunted by demons and evil spirits, and by unclean birds. Never again will people live there, not for all time to come.
40
The same thing will happen to Babylon that happened to Sodom and Gomorrah, when I destroyed them and the nearby towns. No one will ever live there again. I, the LORD, have spoken.
Jeremiah 25:12
After that I will punish Babylonia and its king for their sin. I will destroy that country and leave it in ruins forever.
Jeremiah 51:25
Babylonia, you are like a mountain that destroys the whole world, but I, the LORD, am your enemy. I will take hold of you, level you to the ground, and leave you in ashes.
Jeremiah 51:26
None of the stones from your ruins will ever be used again for building. You will be like a desert forever. I, the LORD, have spoken.
Jeremiah 51:43
The towns have become a horrifying sight and are like a waterless desert, where no one lives or even travels.
Jeremiah 51:62-64
62
Then pray, ' LORD, you have said that you would destroy this place, so that there would be no living creatures in it, neither people nor animals, and it would be like a desert forever.'
63
Seraiah, when you finish reading this book to the people, then tie it to a rock and throw it into the Euphrates River
64
and say, 'This is what will happen to Babylonia---it will sink and never rise again because of the destruction that the LORD is going to bring on it.' " The words of Jeremiah end here.
Isaiah 13:20-22
20
No one will ever live there again. No wandering Arab will ever pitch a tent there, and no shepherd will ever pasture a flock there.
21
It will be a place where desert animals live and where owls build their nests. Ostriches will live there, and wild goats will prance through the ruins.
22
The towers and palaces will echo with the cries of hyenas and jackals. Babylon's time has come! Her days are almost over."
Isaiah 14:22
The LORD Almighty says, "I will attack Babylon and bring it to ruin. I will leave nothing---no children, no survivors at all. I, the LORD, have spoken.
Revelation 18:21-23
21
Then a mighty angel picked up a stone the size of a large millstone and threw it into the sea, saying, "This is how the great city Babylon will be violently thrown down and will never be seen again.
22
The music of harps and of human voices, of players of the flute and the trumpet, will never be heard in you again! No workman in any trade will ever be found in you again; and the sound of the millstone will be heard no more!
23
Never again will the light of a lamp be seen in you; no more will the voices of brides and grooms be heard in you. Your merchants were the most powerful in all the world, and with your false magic you deceived all the peoples of the world!"