בָּבֶ֫ל, בָּבֶל
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§ Babel or Babylon = "confusion (by mixing)"
Babel or Babylon, the ancient site and/or capital of Babylonia (modern Hillah) situated on the Euphrates
Lexicon: STEPBible Tyndale House Brief Lexicons (TBESH / TBESG) (CC BY 4.0)
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Concordance 233 verses
- Jeremiah 50:8 בָּבֶ֔ל
Flee from the midst of Babylon; depart from the land of the Chaldeans; be like the he-goats that lead the flock.
- Jeremiah 50:9 בָּבֶ֜ל
For behold, I stir up and bring against Babylon an assembly of great nations from the land of the north. They will line up against her; from the north she will be captured. Their arrows will be like skilled warriors who do not return empty-handed.
- Jeremiah 50:13 בָּבֶ֔ל
Because of the wrath of the LORD, she will not be inhabited; she will become completely desolate. All who pass through Babylon will be horrified and will hiss at all her wounds.
- Jeremiah 50:14 בָּבֶ֤ל׀
Line up in formation around Babylon, all you who draw the bow! Shoot at her! Spare no arrows! For she has sinned against the LORD.
- Jeremiah 50:16 מִבָּבֶ֔ל
Cut off the sower from Babylon, and the one who wields the sickle at harvest time. In the face of the oppressor’s sword, each will turn to his own people, each will flee to his own land.
- Jeremiah 50:17 בָּבֶֽל׃ס
Israel is a scattered flock, chased away by lions. The first to devour him was the king of Assyria; the last to crush his bones was Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon.”
- Jeremiah 50:18 בָּבֶ֖ל
Therefore this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: “I will punish the king of Babylon and his land as I punished the king of Assyria.
- Jeremiah 50:23 בָּבֶ֖ל
How the hammer of the whole earth lies broken and shattered! What a horror Babylon has become among the nations!
- Jeremiah 50:24 בָּבֶ֔ל
I laid a snare for you, O Babylon, and you were caught before you knew it. You were found and captured because you challenged the LORD.
- Jeremiah 50:28 בָּבֶ֑ל
Listen to the fugitives and refugees from the land of Babylon, declaring in Zion the vengeance of the LORD our God, the vengeance for His temple.
- Jeremiah 50:29 בָּבֶ֣ל׀
Summon the archers against Babylon, all who string the bow. Encamp all around her; let no one escape. Repay her according to her deeds; do to her as she has done. For she has defied the LORD, the Holy One of Israel.
- Jeremiah 50:34 בָבֶֽל׃
Their Redeemer is strong; the LORD of Hosts is His name. He will fervently plead their case so that He may bring rest to the earth, but turmoil to those who live in Babylon.
- Jeremiah 50:35 בָבֶ֔ל
A sword is against the Chaldeans, declares the LORD, against those who live in Babylon, and against her officials and wise men.
- Jeremiah 50:42 בָּבֶֽל׃
They grasp the bow and spear; they are cruel and merciless. Their voice roars like the sea, and they ride upon horses, lined up like men in formation against you, O Daughter of Babylon.
- Jeremiah 50:43 בָּבֶ֛ל
The king of Babylon has heard the report, and his hands hang limp. Anguish has gripped him, pain like that of a woman in labor.
- Jeremiah 50:45 בָּבֶ֔ל
Therefore hear the plans that the LORD has drawn up against Babylon and the strategies He has devised against the land of the Chaldeans: Surely the little ones of the flock will be dragged away; certainly their pasture will be made desolate because of them.
- Jeremiah 50:46 בָבֶ֔ל
At the sound of Babylon’s capture the earth will quake; a cry will be heard among the nations.
- Jeremiah 51:1 בָּבֶ֔ל
This is what the LORD says: “Behold, I will stir up against Babylon and against the people of Leb-kamai the spirit of a destroyer.
- Jeremiah 51:2 לְבָבֶ֤ל׀
I will send strangers to Babylon to winnow her and empty her land; for they will come against her from every side in her day of disaster.
- Jeremiah 51:6 בָּבֶ֗ל
Flee from Babylon! Escape with your lives! Do not be destroyed in her punishment. For this is the time of the LORD’s vengeance; He will pay her what she deserves.
- Jeremiah 51:7 בָּבֶל֙
Babylon was a gold cup in the hand of the LORD, making the whole earth drunk. The nations drank her wine; therefore the nations have gone mad.
- Jeremiah 51:8 בָבֶ֖ל
Suddenly Babylon has fallen and been shattered. Wail for her; get her balm for her pain; perhaps she can be healed.
- Jeremiah 51:9 בָּבֶל֙
“We tried to heal Babylon, but she could not be healed. Abandon her! Let each of us go to his own land, for her judgment extends to the sky and reaches to the clouds.”
- Jeremiah 51:11 בָּבֶ֥ל
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.
- Jeremiah 51:12 בָּבֶ֜לבָבֶֽל׃
Raise a banner against the walls of Babylon; post the guard; station the watchmen; prepare the ambush. For the LORD has both devised and accomplished what He spoke against the people of Babylon.
- Jeremiah 51:24 לְבָבֶ֜ל
Before your very eyes I will repay Babylon and all the dwellers of Chaldea for all the evil they have done in Zion,” declares the LORD.
- Jeremiah 51:29 בָּבֶל֙בָּבֶ֛ל
The earth quakes and writhes because the LORD’s intentions against Babylon stand: to make the land of Babylon a desolation, without inhabitant.
- Jeremiah 51:30 בָבֶ֜ל
The warriors of Babylon have stopped fighting; they sit in their strongholds. Their strength is exhausted; they have become like women. Babylon’s homes have been set ablaze, the bars of her gates are broken.
- Jeremiah 51:31 בָּבֶ֔ל
One courier races to meet another, and messenger follows messenger, to announce to the king of Babylon that his city has been captured from end to end.
- Jeremiah 51:33 בָּבֶ֕ל
For this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: “The Daughter of Babylon is like a threshing floor at the time it is trampled. In just a little while her harvest time will come.”
- Jeremiah 51:34 בָּבֶל֒
“Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has devoured me; he has crushed me. He has set me aside like an empty vessel; he has swallowed me like a monster; he filled his belly with my delicacies and vomited me out.
- Jeremiah 51:35 בָּבֶ֔ל
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 of Chaldea,” says Jerusalem.
- Jeremiah 51:37 בָבֶ֨ל׀
Babylon will become a heap of rubble, a haunt for jackals, an object of horror and scorn, without inhabitant.
- Jeremiah 51:41 בָּבֶ֖ל
How Sheshach has been captured! The praise of all the earth has been seized. What a horror Babylon has become among the nations!
- Jeremiah 51:42 בָּבֶ֖ל
The sea has come up over Babylon; she is covered in turbulent waves.
- Jeremiah 51:44 בְּבָבֶ֗לבָּבֶ֖ל
I will punish Bel in Babylon. I will make him spew out what he swallowed. The nations will no longer stream to him; even the wall of Babylon will fall.
- Jeremiah 51:47 בָבֶ֔ל
Therefore, behold, the days are coming when I will punish the idols of Babylon. Her entire land will suffer shame, and all her slain will lie fallen within her.
- Jeremiah 51:48 בָּבֶל֙
Then heaven and earth and all that is in them will shout for joy over Babylon because the destroyers from the north will come against her,” declares the LORD.
- Jeremiah 51:49 בָּבֶ֕ללְבָבֶ֥ל
“Babylon must fall on account of the slain of Israel, just as the slain of all the earth have fallen because of Babylon.
- Jeremiah 51:53 בָבֶל֙
Even if Babylon ascends to the heavens and fortifies her lofty stronghold, the destroyers I send will come against her,” declares the LORD.
- Jeremiah 51:54 מִבָּבֶ֑ל
“The sound of a cry comes from Babylon, the sound of great destruction from the land of the Chaldeans!
- Jeremiah 51:55 בָּבֶ֔ל
For the LORD will destroy Babylon; He will silence her mighty voice. The waves will roar like great waters; the tumult of their voices will resound.
- Jeremiah 51:56 בָּבֶל֙
For a destroyer is coming against her— against Babylon. Her warriors will be captured, and their bows will be broken, for the LORD is a God of retribution; He will repay in full.
- Jeremiah 51:58 בָּבֶ֤ל
This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Babylon’s thick walls will be leveled, and her high gates consumed by fire. So the labor of the people will be for nothing; the nations will exhaust themselves to fuel the flames.”
- Jeremiah 51:59 בָּבֶ֔ל
This is the message that Jeremiah the prophet gave to the quartermaster Seraiah son of Neriah, the son of Mahseiah, when he went to Babylon with King Zedekiah of Judah in the fourth year of Zedekiah’s reign.
- Jeremiah 51:60 בָּבֶ֖לבָּבֶֽל׃
Jeremiah had written on a single scroll about all the disaster that would come upon Babylon—all these words that had been written concerning Babylon.
- Jeremiah 51:61 בָבֶ֔ל
And Jeremiah said to Seraiah, “When you get to Babylon, see that you read all these words aloud,
- Jeremiah 51:64 בָּבֶ֤ל
Then you are to say, ‘In the same way Babylon will sink and never rise again, because of the disaster I will bring upon her. And her people will grow weary.’” Here end the words of Jeremiah.
- Jeremiah 52:3 בָּבֶֽל׃
For because of the anger of the LORD, all this happened in Jerusalem and Judah, until He finally banished them from His presence. And Zedekiah also rebelled against the king of Babylon.
- Jeremiah 52:4 בָּבֶ֜ל
So in the ninth year of Zedekiah’s reign, on the tenth day of the tenth month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon marched against Jerusalem with his entire army. They encamped outside the city and built a siege wall all around it.
