you will sing this song of contempt against the king of Babylon: How the oppressor has ceased, and how his fury has ended!
I will make your oppressors eat their own flesh; they will be drunk on their own blood, as with wine. Then all mankind w
I will make them a horror and an offense to all the kingdoms of the earth, a disgrace and an object of scorn, ridicule,
Rejoice over her, O heaven, and you saints and apostles and prophets, because God has pronounced for you His judgment ag
I will place it in the hands of your tormentors, who told you: ‘Lie down, so we can walk over you,’ so that you made you
who carried off everything to Babylon—all the articles of the house of God, both large and small, and the treasures of t
behold, I will summon all the families of the north, declares the LORD, and I will send for My servant Nebuchadnezzar ki
saying: “Woe, woe to the great city, clothed in fine linen and purple and scarlet, adorned with gold and precious stones
How long, O LORD, must I call for help but You do not hear, or cry out to You, “Violence!” but You do not save?
“The noise of battle is in the land—the noise of great destruction.
So you will be a reproach and a taunt, a warning and a horror to the nations around you, when I execute judgments agains
So now I have placed all these lands under the authority of My servant Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon. I have even made
How the gold has become tarnished, the pure gold has become dull! The gems of the temple lie scattered on every street c
I could see that the woman was drunk with the blood of the saints and witnesses for Jesus. And I was utterly amazed at t
Will not all of these take up a taunt against him, speaking with mockery and derision: ‘Woe to him who amasses what is n
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
Then I wanted to know the true meaning of the fourth beast, which was different from all the others—extremely terrifying
“You are My war club, My weapon for battle. With you I shatter nations; with you I bring kingdoms to ruin.
And Babylon, the jewel of the kingdoms, the glory of the pride of the Chaldeans, will be overthrown by God like Sodom an
And I heard the angel of the waters say: “Righteous are You, O Holy One, who is and was, because You have brought these
For your violence against Lebanon will overwhelm you, and the destruction of animals will terrify you, because of your b
“Sit in silence and go into darkness, O Daughter of the Chaldeans. For you will no longer be called the queen of kingdom
For her sins are piled up to heaven, and God has remembered her iniquities.
“Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has devoured me; he has crushed me. He has set me aside like an empty vessel; he has swa
It struck the peoples in anger with unceasing blows; it subdued the nations in rage with relentless persecution.
“I will go before you and level the mountains; I will break down the gates of bronze and cut through the bars of iron.
who turned the world into a desert and destroyed its cities, who refused to let the captives return to their homes?”
The second beast was permitted to give breath to the image of the first beast, so that the image could speak and cause a
For as in the day of Midian You have shattered the yoke of their burden, the bar across their shoulders, and the rod of