Even if Babylon ascends to the heavens and fortifies her lofty stronghold, the destroyers I send will come against her,” declares the LORD.
“Come,” they said, “let us build for ourselves a city with a tower that reaches to the heavens, that we may make a name
The terror you cause and the pride of your heart have deceived you, O dwellers in the clefts of the rocks, O occupiers o
The pride of your heart has deceived you, O dwellers in the clefts of the rocks whose habitation is the heights, who say
If I ascend to the heavens, You are there; if I make my bed in Sheol, You are there.
“Behold, I am against you, O destroying mountain, you who devastate the whole earth, declares the LORD. I will stretch o
For behold, I stir up and bring against Babylon an assembly of great nations from the land of the north. They will line
Behold, I will stir up against them the Medes, who have no regard for silver and no desire for gold.
Sharpen the arrows! Fill the quivers! The LORD has aroused the spirit of the kings of the Medes, because His plan is aim
Then heaven and earth and all that is in them will shout for joy over Babylon because the destroyers from the north will
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
I will send him against a godless nation; I will dispatch him against a people destined for My rage, to take spoils and
Go up against the land of Merathaim, and against the residents of Pekod. Kill them and devote them to destruction. Do al
This is what the LORD says: “Behold, I will stir up against Babylon and against the people of Leb-kamai the spirit of a
Therefore hear the plans that the LORD has drawn up against Babylon and the strategies He has devised against the land o
This is what the LORD says to Cyrus His anointed, whose right hand I have grasped to subdue nations before him, to disar
You said, ‘I will be queen forever.’ You did not take these things to heart or consider their outcome.
the king exclaimed, “Is this not Babylon the Great, which I myself have built as a royal residence by the might of my po
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
“Sit in silence and go into darkness, O Daughter of the Chaldeans. For you will no longer be called the queen of kingdom
How you have fallen from heaven, O day star, son of the dawn! You have been cut down to the ground, O destroyer of natio
Though they are driven by their enemies into captivity, there I will command the sword to slay them. I will fix My eyes
“Behold, I am against you, O arrogant one,” declares the Lord GOD of Hosts, “for your day has come, the time when I will
Raise a banner on a barren hilltop; call aloud to them. Wave your hand, that they may enter the gates of the nobles.
I made it beautiful with its many branches, the envy of all the trees of Eden, which were in the garden of God.’
This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Babylon’s thick walls will be leveled, and her high gates consumed by fire. So the