Sharpen the arrows! Fill the quivers! The LORD has aroused the spirit of the kings of the Medes, because His plan is aimed at Babylon to destroy her, for it is the vengeance of the LORD—vengeance for His temple.
Harness the horses; mount the steeds; take your positions with helmets on! Polish your spears; put on armor!
Therefore hear the plans that the LORD has drawn up against Babylon and the strategies He has devised against the land o
For behold, I stir up and bring against Babylon an assembly of great nations from the land of the north. They will line
Advance, O horses! Race furiously, O chariots! Let the warriors come forth—Cush and Put carrying their shields, men of L
A dire vision is declared to me: “The traitor still betrays, and the destroyer still destroys. Go up, O Elam! Lay siege,
I am the LORD, and there is no other; there is no God but Me. I will equip you for battle, though you have not known Me,
The LORD has opened His armory and brought out His weapons of wrath, for this is the work of the Lord GOD of Hosts in th
“Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of drunkenness to all the surrounding peoples. Judah will be besieged, as well as J
With cunning they scheme against Your people and conspire against those You cherish,
Listen to the fugitives and refugees from the land of Babylon, declaring in Zion the vengeance of the LORD our God, the
This is what the LORD says to Cyrus His anointed, whose right hand I have grasped to subdue nations before him, to disar
I summon a bird of prey from the east, a man for My purpose from a far-off land. Truly I have spoken, and truly I will b
Turn Your steps to the everlasting ruins, to everything in the sanctuary the enemy has destroyed.
Then the LORD raised up against Solomon an adversary, Hadad the Edomite, from the royal line of Edom.
In the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, to fulfill the word of the LORD spoken through Jeremiah, the LORD stirred the
Line up in formation around Babylon, all you who draw the bow! Shoot at her! Spare no arrows! For she has sinned against
So the God of Israel stirred up the spirit of Pul king of Assyria (that is, Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria) to take the
Before your very eyes I will repay Babylon and all the dwellers of Chaldea for all the evil they have done in Zion,” dec
“Raise a banner in the land! Blow the ram’s horn among the nations! Prepare the nations against her. Summon the kingdoms
Raise a banner against the walls of Babylon; post the guard; station the watchmen; prepare the ambush. For the LORD has
And the ten horns and the beast that you saw will hate the prostitute. They will leave her desolate and naked, and they
For I will gather all the nations for battle against Jerusalem, and the city will be captured, the houses looted, and th
In the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, to fulfill the word of the LORD spoken through Jeremiah, the LORD stirred the
I have raised up one from the north, and he has come—one from the east who calls on My name. He will march over rulers a
They prepare a table, they lay out a carpet, they eat, they drink! Rise up, O princes, oil the shields!
May the violence done to me and to my flesh be upon Babylon,” says the dweller of Zion. “May my blood be on the dwellers
For your violence against Lebanon will overwhelm you, and the destruction of animals will terrify you, because of your b
And God raised up against Solomon another adversary, Rezon the son of Eliada, who had fled from his master, Hadadezer ki
Behold, I will stir up against them the Medes, who have no regard for silver and no desire for gold.
And the LORD of Hosts will brandish a whip against them, as when He struck Midian at the rock of Oreb. He will raise His
And this will be the plague with which the LORD strikes all the peoples who have warred against Jerusalem: Their flesh w