Bible Cross References
shall not
Jeremiah 51:37
That country will become a pile of ruins where wild animals live. It will be a horrible sight; no one will live there, and all who see it will be terrified.
Jeremiah 51:43
The towns have become a horrifying sight and are like a waterless desert, where no one lives or even travels.
Jeremiah 50:12
but your own great city will be humiliated and disgraced. Babylonia will be the least important nation of all; it will become a dry and waterless desert.
Jeremiah 50:13
Because of my anger no one will live in Babylon; it will be left in ruins, and all who pass by will be shocked and amazed.
Isaiah 13:19-22
19
Babylonia is the most beautiful kingdom of all; it is the pride of its people. But I, the LORD, will overthrow Babylon as I did Sodom and Gomorrah!
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 14:23
I will turn Babylon into a marsh, and owls will live there. I will sweep Babylon with a broom that will sweep everything away. I, the LORD Almighty, have spoken."
desolate for ever
Jeremiah 50:40
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 50:41
"People are coming from a country in the north, a mighty nation far away; many kings are preparing for war.
Isaiah 34:8-17
8
This is the time when the LORD will rescue Zion and take vengeance on her enemies.
9
The rivers of Edom will turn into tar, and the soil will turn into sulfur. The whole country will burn like tar.
10
It will burn day and night, and smoke will rise from it forever. The land will lie waste age after age, and no one will ever travel through it again.
11
Owls and ravens will take over the land. The LORD will make it a barren waste again, as it was before the creation.
12
There will be no king to rule the country, and the leaders will all be gone.
13
Thorns and thistles will grow up in all the palaces and walled towns, and jackals and owls will live in them.
14
Wild animals will roam there, and demons will call to each other. The night monster will come there looking for a place to rest.
15
Owls will build their nests, lay eggs, hatch their young, and care for them there. Vultures will gather there, one after another.
16
Search in the LORD's book of living creatures and read what it says. Not one of these creatures will be missing, and not one will be without its mate. The LORD has commanded it to be so; he himself will bring them together.
17
It is the LORD who will divide the land among them and give each of them a share. They will live in the land age after age, and it will belong to them forever.
Revelation 18:20-24
20
Be glad, heaven, because of her destruction! Be glad, God's people and the apostles and prophets! For God has condemned her for what she did to you!
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!"
24
Babylon was punished because the blood of prophets and of God's people was found in the city; yes, the blood of all those who have been killed on earth.