[:en]Our Daily Verse (9/13/21)[:]

[:en]SCRIPTURE:  JEREMIAH 51

“He made the earth by his power; he founded the world by his wisdom and stretched out the heavens by his understanding.  When he thunders, the waters in the heavens roar; he makes clouds rise from the ends of the earth.  He send lightning with the rain and brings out the wind from his storehouses” (Jeremiah 51:15-16)

“The land trembles and writhes, for the Lord’s purposes against Babylon stand – to lay waste the land of Babylon so that no one will live there” (Jeremiah 51:29)

Therefore, this is what the Lord says: “See, I will defend your cause and avenge you; I will dry up her sea and make her springs dry.  Babylon will be a heap of ruins, a haunt of jackals, an object of horror and scorn, a place where no one lives.  Her people all roar like young lions, they growl like lion cubs” (Jeremiah 51:36-38)

“For the time will surely come when I will punish the idols of Babylon; her whole land will be disgraced and her slain will all lie fallen within her.  Then heaven and earth and all that is in them will shout for joy over Babylon, for out of the north destroyers will attack her,” declares the Lord  Babylon must fall because of Israel’s slain, just as the slain in all the earth have fallen because of Babylon” (Jeremiah 51:47-49)

DISASTERS THAT WOULD COME UPON BABYLON:

  1.  Babylon will suddenly fall and be broken (v. 8)
  2. Babylon will become a burned out mountain and will be desolate forever (v. 6)
  3. Babylon will become a waste land where no one lives (v. 29)
  4. Babylon’s warriors will stop fighting because their strength were exhausted (v. 30)
  5. The city of Babylon will be captured, their river crossing seized, their soldiers terrified (v. 32)
  6. Babylon’s sea and spring will dry up (v. 36)
  7. Babylon will be a heap of ruins, a haunt of jackals, an object of horror and scorn. (v. 37)
  8. The Babylonians will be brought down like lambs and goats to the slaughter (v. 40)
  9. The sea will rise over Babylon and its roaring waves will cover her 9v. 42)
  10. Her towns will become a dry and desert land where no one lives (v. 43)
  11. The walls of Babylon will fall (v. 44)
  12. The idols of Babylon will be punished and her whole land will be disgraced (v. 47)
  13. the sound of cry and great destruction will be upon the land of Babylon (v. 54)
  14. Her warriors will be captured, their bows all be broken (v. 56)
  15. Her officials, wise men, governors, officers and warriors will get drunk and never awake ( v. 57)
  16. Babylon’s thick wall will be leveled and her high gates set on fire (v. 58)
  17. Babylon will sink and rise no more (v. 64)

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