逐节对照
- Amplified Bible - O daughter of Babylon, you devastator, How blessed will be the one Who repays you [with destruction] as you have repaid us.
- 新标点和合本 - 将要被灭的巴比伦城啊（城：原文是女子）， 报复你像你待我们的，那人便为有福！
- 和合本2010（上帝版-简体） - 将要被灭的巴比伦 哪， 用你待我们的恶行报复你的，那人有福了。
- 和合本2010（神版-简体） - 将要被灭的巴比伦 哪， 用你待我们的恶行报复你的，那人有福了。
- 当代译本 - 巴比伦城啊， 你快要灭亡了， 那向你以牙还牙为我们复仇的人有福了！
- 圣经新译本 - 将要被毁灭的（“将要被毁灭的”有古译本作“毁灭者”）巴比伦城（“城”原文作“女子”）啊！ 照着你待我们的行为报复你的， 那人有福了。
- 中文标准译本 - 将被毁灭的巴比伦城 啊， 照着你向我们所做的去报应你的， 那人是蒙福的！
- 现代标点和合本 - 将要被灭的巴比伦城 啊， 报复你像你待我们的，那人便为有福！
- 和合本（拼音版） - 将要被灭的巴比伦城啊 ， 报复你像你待我们的，那人便为有福。
- New International Version - Daughter Babylon, doomed to destruction, happy is the one who repays you according to what you have done to us.
- New International Reader's Version - People of Babylon, you are sentenced to be destroyed. Happy is the person who pays you back according to what you have done to us.
- English Standard Version - O daughter of Babylon, doomed to be destroyed, blessed shall he be who repays you with what you have done to us!
- New Living Translation - O Babylon, you will be destroyed. Happy is the one who pays you back for what you have done to us.
- Christian Standard Bible - Daughter Babylon, doomed to destruction, happy is the one who pays you back what you have done to us.
- New American Standard Bible - Daughter of Babylon, you devastated one, Blessed will be one who repays you With the retribution with which you have repaid us.
- New King James Version - O daughter of Babylon, who are to be destroyed, Happy the one who repays you as you have served us!
- American Standard Version - O daughter of Babylon, that art to be destroyed, Happy shall he be, that rewardeth thee As thou hast served us.
- King James Version - O daughter of Babylon, who art to be destroyed; happy shall he be, that rewardeth thee as thou hast served us.
- New English Translation - O daughter Babylon, soon to be devastated! How blessed will be the one who repays you for what you dished out to us!
- World English Bible - Daughter of Babylon, doomed to destruction, he will be happy who repays you, as you have done to us.
- 新標點和合本 - 將要被滅的巴比倫城啊（城：原文是女子）， 報復你像你待我們的，那人便為有福！
- 和合本2010（上帝版-繁體） - 將要被滅的巴比倫 哪， 用你待我們的惡行報復你的，那人有福了。
- 和合本2010（神版-繁體） - 將要被滅的巴比倫 哪， 用你待我們的惡行報復你的，那人有福了。
- 當代譯本 - 巴比倫城啊， 你快要滅亡了， 那向你以牙還牙為我們復仇的人有福了！
- 聖經新譯本 - 將要被毀滅的（“將要被毀滅的”有古譯本作“毀滅者”）巴比倫城（“城”原文作“女子”）啊！ 照著你待我們的行為報復你的， 那人有福了。
- 呂振中譯本 - 毁滅者 巴比倫 國 啊， 照你所待我們的去報復你的、 那人有福啊！
- 中文標準譯本 - 將被毀滅的巴比倫城 啊， 照著你向我們所做的去報應你的， 那人是蒙福的！
- 現代標點和合本 - 將要被滅的巴比倫城 啊， 報復你像你待我們的，那人便為有福！
- 文理和合譯本 - 將亡之巴比倫女歟、以爾之待我者待爾、斯人其有福兮、
- 文理委辦譯本 - 巴比倫之邑民兮、昔爾害予、擲嬰孩於石、今有人待爾若此者、必得純嘏兮。
- 施約瑟淺文理新舊約聖經 - 必滅亡之 巴比倫 邑 邑原文作女 乎、有人報復爾、如爾之待我儕、願其得福、
- 吳經熊文理聖詠與新經全集 - 巴比倫 人恣刼奪。可憐稚子亦遭殃。
- Nueva Versión Internacional - Hija de Babilonia, que has de ser destruida, ¡dichoso el que te haga pagar por todo lo que nos has hecho!
- 현대인의 성경 - 바빌론아, 너는 멸망할 것이다. 네가 우리에게 행한 대로 갚아 주는 자가 복이 있으리라.
- Новый Русский Перевод - Господь завершит то, что задумал для меня. Господи, Твоя милость на веки: не оставляй творения Твоих рук!
- Восточный перевод - Вечный свершит то, что задумал для меня. Твоя милость, Вечный, навеки: не оставляй творения Твоих рук!
- Восточный перевод, версия с «Аллахом» - Вечный свершит то, что задумал для меня. Твоя милость, Вечный, навеки: не оставляй творения Твоих рук!
- Восточный перевод, версия для Таджикистана - Вечный свершит то, что задумал для меня. Твоя милость, Вечный, навеки: не оставляй творения Твоих рук!
- La Bible du Semeur 2015 - O Dame Babylone, ╵tu seras dévastée ! Heureux qui te rendra tout le mal que tu nous as fait !
- リビングバイブル - どう猛な野獣バビロンよ。おまえは滅ぼされる。 おまえを滅ぼす人に、祝福があるように。 おまえは私たちを滅ぼしたからだ。
- Nova Versão Internacional - Ó cidade de Babilônia, destinada à destruição, feliz aquele que lhe retribuir o mal que você nos fez!
- Hoffnung für alle - Babylon, auch dich wird man niederreißen und verwüsten! Glücklich ist, wer dir heimzahlt, was du uns angetan hast!
- Kinh Thánh Hiện Đại - Hỡi con gái Ba-by-lôn, các ngươi đã bị định cho diệt vong. Phước cho người báo phạt Ba-by-lôn, vì những gì các ngươi đã làm cho chúng ta.
- พระคริสตธรรมคัมภีร์ไทย ฉบับอมตธรรมร่วมสมัย - โอ ธิดาแห่งบาบิโลน เจ้าจะพินาศย่อยยับ ความสุขมีแก่ผู้ที่คืนสนองเจ้า อย่างสาสมกับที่เจ้าได้ทำกับเรา
- พระคัมภีร์ ฉบับแปลใหม่ - ธิดาแห่งบาบิโลนเอ๋ย เจ้าถูกกำหนดให้ถึงซึ่งความพินาศ ผู้เป็นสุขคือผู้สนองตอบเจ้า อย่างที่เจ้าได้กระทำต่อพวกเรา
交叉引用
- Revelation 17:1 - Then one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls came and spoke with me, saying, “Come here, I will show you the judgment and doom of the great prostitute who is seated on many waters [influencing nations],
- Revelation 17:2 - she with whom the kings of the earth have committed acts of immorality, and the inhabitants of the earth have become intoxicated with the wine of her immorality.”
- Revelation 17:3 - And the angel carried me away in the Spirit into a wilderness; and I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast that was entirely covered with blasphemous names, having seven heads and ten horns.
- Revelation 17:4 - The woman was dressed in purple and scarlet, and adorned with gold, precious stones and pearls, [and she was] holding in her hand a gold cup full of the abominations and the filth of her [sexual] immorality.
- Revelation 17:5 - And on her forehead a name was written, a mystery: “BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF PROSTITUTES (false religions, heresies) AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.”
- Revelation 17:6 - I saw that the woman was drunk with the blood of the saints (God’s people), and with the blood of the witnesses of Jesus [who were martyred]. When I saw her, I wondered in amazement.
- Revelation 17:7 - But the angel said to me, “Why do you wonder? I will explain to you the mystery of the woman and of the beast that carries her, which has the seven heads and ten horns.
- Revelation 17:8 - “The beast that you saw was [once], but [now] is not, and he is about to come up out of the abyss (the bottomless pit, the dwelling place of demons) and go to destruction (perdition). And the inhabitants of the earth, whose names have not been written in the Book of Life from the foundation of the world, will be astonished when they see the beast, because he was and is not and is yet to come [to earth].
- Revelation 17:9 - Here is the mind which has wisdom [and this is what it knows about the vision]. The seven heads are seven hills on which the woman sits;
- Revelation 17:10 - and they are seven kings: five of whom have fallen, one exists and is reigning; the other [the seventh] has not yet come, and when he does come, he must remain a little while.
- Revelation 17:11 - And the beast that [once] was but is not, is himself also an eighth king and is one of the seven, and he goes to destruction (perdition).
- Revelation 17:12 - The ten horns that you saw are ten kings who have not yet received a kingdom, but [together] they receive authority as kings for a single hour [for a common purpose] along with the beast.
- Revelation 17:13 - These [kings] have one purpose [one mind, one common goal], and they give their power and authority to the beast.
- Revelation 17:14 - They will wage war against the Lamb (Christ), and the Lamb will triumph and conquer them, because He is Lord of lords and King of kings, and those who are with Him and on His side are the called and chosen (elect) and faithful.”
- Revelation 17:15 - Then the angel said to me, “The waters which you saw, where the prostitute is seated, are peoples and multitudes and nations and languages.
- Revelation 17:16 - And the ten horns which you saw, and the beast, these will hate the prostitute and will make her desolate and naked [stripped of her power and influence], and will eat her flesh and completely consume her with fire.
- Revelation 17:17 - For God has put it in their hearts to carry out His purpose by agreeing together to surrender their kingdom to the beast, until the [prophetic] words of God will be fulfilled.
- Revelation 17:18 - The woman whom you saw is the great city, which reigns over and dominates and controls the kings and the political leaders of the earth.”
- Isaiah 47:1 - “Come down and sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon; Sit on the ground [in abject humiliation]; there is no throne for you, O daughter of the Chaldeans, For you will no longer be called tender and delicate.
- Isaiah 47:2 - Take millstones [as a female slave does] and grind meal; Remove your veil, strip off the skirt, Uncover the leg, cross the rivers [at the command of your captors].
- Isaiah 47:3 - Your nakedness will be uncovered, Your shame will also be exposed; I will take vengeance and will spare no man.”
- Isaiah 47:4 - Our Redeemer [will do all this], the Lord of hosts is His name, The Holy One of Israel.
- Isaiah 47:5 - “Sit in silence, and go into darkness, O daughter of the Chaldeans; For you will no longer be called The queen of kingdoms.
- Isaiah 47:6 - I was angry with My people, I profaned [Judah] My inheritance And gave them into your hand [Babylon]. You showed them no mercy; You made your yoke very heavy on the aged.
- Isaiah 47:7 - And you said, ‘I shall be a queen forevermore.’ You did not consider these things, Nor did you [seriously] remember the [ultimate] outcome of such conduct.
- Isaiah 47:8 - “Now, then, hear this, you who live a luxuriant life, You who dwell safely and securely, Who say in your heart (mind), ‘I am [the queen], and there is no one besides me. I shall not sit as a widow, Nor know the loss of children.’
- Isaiah 47:9 - But these two things shall come to you abruptly, in one day: Loss of children and widowhood. They will come on you in full measure In spite of your many [claims of power through your] sorceries, In spite of the great power of your enchantments.
- Isaiah 47:10 - For you [Babylon] have trusted and felt confident in your wickedness; you have said, ‘No one sees me.’ Your wisdom and your knowledge have led you astray, And you have said in your heart (mind), ‘I am, and there is no one besides me.’
- Isaiah 47:11 - Therefore disaster will come on you; You will not know how to make it disappear [with your magic]. And disaster will fall on you For which you cannot atone [with all your offerings to your gods]; And destruction about which you do not know Will come on you suddenly.
- Isaiah 47:12 - “Persist, then, [Babylon] in your enchantments And your many sorceries With which you have labored from your youth; Perhaps you will be able to profit [from them], Perhaps you may prevail and cause trembling.
- Isaiah 47:13 - You are wearied by your many counsels. Just let the astrologers, The stargazers, Those who predict by the new moons [each month] Stand up and save you from the things that will come upon you [Babylon].
- Isaiah 47:14 - In fact, they are like stubble; Fire burns them. They cannot save themselves from the power of the flame [much less save the nation], There is no blazing coal for warming Nor fire before which to sit!
- Isaiah 47:15 - This is how they have become to you, those [astrologers and sorcerers] with whom you have labored, Those who have done business with you from your youth; Each has wandered in his own way. There is no one to save you.
- Isaiah 44:28 - It is I who says of Cyrus, ‘He is My shepherd (ruler), And he will carry out all that I desire—’ Saying of Jerusalem, ‘She shall [again] be built,’ And of the temple, ‘Your foundation shall [again] be laid.’ ”
- Revelation 14:8 - Then another angel, a second one, followed, saying, “Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great, she who has made all nations drink the wine of the passion of her immorality [corrupting them with idolatry].”
- Revelation 14:9 - Then another angel, a third one, followed them, saying with a loud voice, “Whoever worships the beast and his image and receives the mark [of the beast] on his forehead or on his hand,
- Revelation 14:10 - he too will [have to] drink of the wine of the wrath of God, mixed undiluted into the cup of His anger; and he will be tormented with fire and brimstone (flaming sulfur) in the presence of the holy angels and in the presence of the Lamb (Christ).
- Revelation 14:11 - And the smoke of their torment ascends forever and ever; and they have no rest day and night—those who worship the beast and his image, and whoever receives the mark of his name.”
- Jeremiah 25:12 - ‘Then when seventy years are completed, I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation, the land of the Chaldeans (Babylonia),’ says the Lord, ‘for their wickedness, and will make the land [of the Chaldeans] a perpetual waste.
- Jeremiah 25:13 - I will bring on that land all My words which I have pronounced against it, all that is written in this book which Jeremiah has prophesied against all the nations.
- Jeremiah 25:14 - (For many nations and great kings will make slaves of them, even the Chaldeans [who enslaved other nations]; and I will repay [all of] them according to their deeds and according to the work of their [own] hands.)’ ”
- Zechariah 2:7 - “Hear, Zion (Jerusalem)! Escape, you who are living with the daughter of Babylon!”
- Jeremiah 50:1 - The word that the Lord spoke concerning Babylon and concerning the land of the Chaldeans through Jeremiah the prophet:
- Jeremiah 50:2 - “Declare among the nations. Lift up a signal [to spread the news]—publish and proclaim it, Do not conceal it; say, ‘Babylon has been taken, Bel [the patron god] has been shamed, Marduk (Bel) has been shattered. Babylon’s images have been shamed, her [worthless] idols have been thrown down.’
- Jeremiah 50:3 - For out of the north a nation (Media) has come against her which will make her land desolate, and no one will live there. They have fled, they have gone away—both man and animal.
- Jeremiah 50:4 - “In those days and at that time,” says the Lord, “the children of Israel will come, they and the children of Judah together; they will come up weeping [in repentance] as they come and seek the Lord their God [inquiring for and of Him].
- Jeremiah 50:5 - They will ask the way to Zion, with their faces in that direction, saying, ‘Come, let us join ourselves to the Lord in an everlasting covenant that will not be forgotten.’
- Jeremiah 50:6 - “My people have become lost sheep; Their shepherds have led them astray. They have made them turn aside [to the seductive places of idolatry] on the mountains. They have gone along [from one sin to another] from mountain to hill; They have forgotten their [own] resting place.
- Jeremiah 50:7 - All who found them have devoured them; And their adversaries have said, ‘We are not guilty, Because they have sinned against the Lord [and are no longer holy to Him], their [true] habitation of righteousness and justice, Even the Lord, the [confident] hope of their fathers.’
- Jeremiah 50:8 - “Wander away from the midst of Babylon And go out of the land of the Chaldeans; Be like the male goats [who serve as leaders] at the head of the flocks.
- Jeremiah 50:9 - For behold, I will stir up and bring up against Babylon An assembly of great nations from the north country. They will equip themselves and set up the battle lines against her; From there she will be taken captive. Their arrows will be like an expert warrior Who will not return empty-handed.
- Jeremiah 50:10 - Chaldea will become plunder; All who plunder her will be satisfied,” says the Lord.
- Jeremiah 50:11 - “Though you are glad, though you rejoice, O you who plunder My heritage, Though you are wanton and skip about like a heifer in the grass And neigh like stallions,
- Jeremiah 50:12 - Your mother [Babylon] shall be greatly shamed; She who gave you birth will be ashamed. Behold, she will be the least of the nations, A wilderness, a parched land and a desert.
- Jeremiah 50:13 - Because of the wrath of the Lord she will not be inhabited But she will be completely desolate; Everyone who goes by Babylon will be appalled And will hiss (mock) at all her wounds and plagues.
- Jeremiah 50:14 - Set yourselves in battle formation against Babylon on every side, All you archers. Shoot at her! Do not spare the arrows, For she has sinned against the Lord.
- Jeremiah 50:15 - Raise the battle cry against her on every side! She has given her hand [in agreement] and has surrendered; her pillars have fallen, Her walls have been torn down. For this is the vengeance of the Lord: Take vengeance on her; As she has done [to others], do to her.
- Jeremiah 50:16 - Cut off the sower from Babylon And the one who handles the sickle at the time of harvest. For fear of the sword of the oppressor Everyone will return to his own people And everyone will flee to his own land.
- Jeremiah 50:17 - Israel is a hunted and scattered flock [driven here and there as prey]; the lions have chased them away. First the king of Assyria devoured him, and now at last Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has broken (gnawed) his bones.
- Jeremiah 50:18 - Therefore thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, ‘Behold, I will visit (inspect, examine) and punish the king of Babylon and his land, just as I visited and punished the king of Assyria.
- Jeremiah 50:19 - And I will bring Israel [home] again to his pasture and he will graze on [the most fertile lands of] Carmel [in the west] and Bashan [in the east], and his soul will be satisfied on the hills of Ephraim and Gilead.
- Jeremiah 50:20 - In those days and at that time,’ says the Lord, ‘a search will be made for the wickedness of Israel, but there will be none and for the sins of Judah, but none will be found, for I will pardon those whom I leave as a remnant.’
- Jeremiah 50:21 - “Go against [Babylon] the land of Merathaim (Double Rebellion), Go up against it and against the people of Pekod (Punishment). Kill and utterly destroy them,” says the Lord, “And do everything that I have commanded you.”
- Jeremiah 50:22 - “The noise of battle is in the land, And [the noise of] great destruction.
- Jeremiah 50:23 - How the hammer of the whole earth Is crushed and broken! How Babylon has become A horror [of desolation] among the nations!
- Jeremiah 50:24 - I set a trap for you and you also were caught, O Babylon, And you did not know it; You have been found and also seized Because you have struggled against the Lord.”
- Jeremiah 50:25 - The Lord has opened His armory And has brought out [the nations who unknowingly are] the weapons of His indignation (wrath), For it is a work of the Lord God of hosts In the land of the Chaldeans.
- Jeremiah 50:26 - Come against her from the farthest border. Open her storehouses; Pile it up like heaps of rubbish. Burn and destroy her completely; Let nothing be left of her.
- Jeremiah 50:27 - Kill all her young bulls [her strength—her young men]; Let them go down to the slaughter! Woe (judgment is coming) to the Chaldeans, for their day has come, The time of their punishment.
- Jeremiah 50:28 - Listen to the voice of the refugees who flee and escape from the land of Babylon, Proclaiming in Zion the vengeance of the Lord our God, The vengeance [of the Lord against the Chaldeans] for [plundering and destroying] His temple.
- Jeremiah 50:29 - “Call together many [archers] against Babylon, All those who bend the bow. Encamp against her on every side; Let no one from there escape. Repay her according to her actions; Just as she has done, do to her. For she has been proudly defiant and presumptuous against the Lord, Against the Holy One of Israel.
- Jeremiah 50:30 - Therefore her young men will fall in her streets, And all her soldiers will be destroyed on that day,” says the Lord.
- Jeremiah 50:31 - “Behold, I am against you, [O Babylon, you] arrogant one, [you who are pride and presumption personified],” Says the Lord God of hosts, “For your day has come, The time when I will punish you.
- Jeremiah 50:32 - The arrogant (proud) one will stumble and fall With no one to raise him up; And I will set fire to his cities And it will devour all who are around him.”
- Jeremiah 50:33 - Thus says the Lord of hosts, “The children of Israel are oppressed, And the children of Judah as well; And all who took them captive have held them tightly, They have refused to let them go.
- Jeremiah 50:34 - Their Redeemer is strong; the Lord of hosts is His name. He will most certainly plead their case and defend their cause So that He may bring rest to their land, But turmoil to the inhabitants of Babylon.
- Jeremiah 50:35 - A sword against the Chaldeans,” says the Lord, “And against the inhabitants of Babylon And against her princes (officials, civic rulers) and against her wise men (astrologers, religious rulers)!
- Jeremiah 50:36 - A sword against the oracle priests (the babbling liars), and they will become fools! A sword against her mighty warriors, and they will be shattered and destroyed!
- Jeremiah 50:37 - A sword against their horses and against their chariots And against all the foreign troops that are in her midst, And they will become [as weak and defenseless as] women! A sword against her treasures, and they will be plundered!
- Jeremiah 50:38 - A drought on her waters, and they will dry up! For it is a land of [worthless] idols, And they are mad over fearsome idols [those objects of terror in which they foolishly trust].
- Jeremiah 50:39 - “Therefore wild beasts of the desert will live there [in Babylon] with the jackals; The ostriches also will live there, And it will never again be inhabited [with people] Or lived in from generation to generation.
- Jeremiah 50:40 - As when God overthrew Sodom And Gomorrah and their neighboring cities,” says the Lord, “So no man will live there; Nor shall any son of man live there.”
- Jeremiah 50:41 - “Behold, a people is coming from the north, And a great nation and many kings Will be stirring from the remote parts of the earth.
- Jeremiah 50:42 - They seize their bow and spear; They are cruel and have no compassion. They sound like the roaring of the sea; They ride on horses, Every man equipped like a man [ready] for the battle Against you, O Daughter of Babylon.
- Jeremiah 50:43 - The king of Babylon has heard the report about them, And his hands fall limp and helpless; Anguish has seized him, And agony like that of a woman in childbirth.
- Jeremiah 50:44 - “See, one will come up like a lion from the thicket of the Jordan against the enduring habitation [of Babylon] and its watered pastures; for in an instant I will make Babylon run from his land. I will appoint over Babylon the one whom I choose. For who is like Me, and who will summon Me [into court] and prosecute Me [for this]? Who is the [earthly] shepherd who can stand [defiantly] before Me?”
- Jeremiah 50:45 - Therefore hear the plan of the Lord which He has devised against Babylon, and hear what He has purposed against [the inhabitants of the land of] the Chaldeans: surely they will be dragged away, [even] the little ones of the flock; surely He will make their habitation desolate because of them.
- Jeremiah 50:46 - At the shout, “Babylon has been seized!” the earth quakes, and an outcry is heard among the nations.
- Revelation 18:20 - Rejoice over her, O heaven, and you saints (God’s people) and apostles and prophets [who were martyred], because God has executed vengeance for you [through righteous judgment] upon her.”
- Isaiah 21:1 - The [mournful, inspired] oracle ( a burden to be carried) concerning the Desert of the Sea (the seasonally flooded plains just south of Babylon): As windstorms in the Negev (the South) sweep through, So it (God’s judgment) comes from the desert, from [the hostile armies of] a terrifying land.
- Isaiah 14:4 - that you will take up this taunt against the king of Babylon, and say, “How the oppressor has ceased [his insolence], And how the fury has ceased!
- Isaiah 14:5 - The Lord has broken the staff of the wicked, The scepter of the [tyrant] rulers
- Isaiah 14:6 - Which used to strike the peoples in anger with incessant blows, Which subdued and ruled the nations in wrath with unrelenting persecution.
- Isaiah 14:7 - The whole earth is at rest and is quiet; They break into shouts of joy.
- Isaiah 14:8 - Even the cypress trees rejoice over you [kings of Babylon], even the cedars of Lebanon, saying, ‘Since you were laid low, no woodcutter comes up against us.’
- Isaiah 14:9 - Sheol below is excited about you to meet you when you come [you tyrant of Babylon]; It stirs up the spirits of the dead [to greet you], all the leaders of the earth; It raises all the kings of the nations from their thrones [in astonishment at your fall].
- Isaiah 14:10 - All of them will respond [tauntingly] and say to you, ‘You have become as weak as we are. You have become like us.
- Isaiah 14:11 - Your pomp and magnificence have been brought down to Sheol, Along with the music of your harps; The maggots [which prey on the dead] are spread out under you [as a bed] And worms are your covering [Babylonian rulers].’
- Isaiah 14:12 - How you have fallen from heaven, O star of the morning [light-bringer], son of the dawn! You have been cut down to the ground, You who have weakened the nations [king of Babylon]!
- Isaiah 14:13 - But you said in your heart, ‘I will ascend to heaven; I will raise my throne above the stars of God; I will sit on the mount of assembly In the remote parts of the north.
- Isaiah 14:14 - I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will make myself like the Most High.’
- Isaiah 14:15 - But [in fact] you will be brought down to Sheol, To the remote recesses of the pit (the region of the dead).
- Isaiah 14:16 - Those who see you will gaze at you, They will consider you, saying, ‘Is this the man who made the earth tremble, Who shook kingdoms,
- Isaiah 14:17 - Who made the world like a wilderness And overthrew its cities, Who did not permit his prisoners to return home?’
- Isaiah 14:18 - All the kings of the nations, all of them lie [dead] in glorious array, Each one in his own sepulcher.
- Isaiah 14:19 - But you [king of Babylon] have been cast out of your tomb (denied burial) Like a rejected branch, Clothed with the slain who are pierced by the sword, Who go down to the stones of the pit [into which carcasses are thrown], Like a dead body trampled [underfoot].
- Isaiah 14:20 - You will not be united with them in burial, Because you have destroyed your land, You have slain your people. May the descendants of evildoers never be named!
- Isaiah 14:21 - Prepare a slaughtering place for his sons Because of the wickedness [the sin, the injustice, the wrongdoing] of their fathers. They must not rise and take possession of the earth, And fill the face of the world with cities.”
- Isaiah 14:22 - “I will rise up against them,” says the Lord of hosts, “and will cut off from Babylon name and survivors, and son and grandson,” declares the Lord.
- Isaiah 14:23 - “I will also make Babylon a possession of the hedgehog and of swamps of water, and I will sweep it away with the broom of destruction,” declares the Lord of hosts.
- Isaiah 14:24 - The Lord of hosts has sworn [an oath], saying, “Just as I have intended, so it has certainly happened, and just as I have planned, so it will stand—
- Psalms 149:6 - Let the high praises of God be in their throats, And a two-edged sword in their hands,
- Psalms 149:7 - To execute vengeance on the nations And punishment on the peoples,
- Psalms 149:8 - To bind their kings with chains And their nobles with fetters of iron,
- Psalms 149:9 - To execute on them the judgment written. This is the honor for all His godly ones. Praise the Lord! (Hallelujah!)
- Isaiah 13:1 - The [mournful, inspired] oracle ( a burden to be carried) concerning Babylon which Isaiah the son of Amoz saw [in a prophetic vision]:
- Isaiah 13:2 - Lift up a signal banner on the bare mountain, Summon them [the Medes and Persians] with a loud voice, Wave the [beckoning] hand so that they may enter the doorways of the [Babylonian] nobles.
- Isaiah 13:3 - I [the Lord] have commanded My consecrated ones, I have even called My great warriors, My proudly exulting ones [the Medes and the Persians who triumph for My honor]— To execute My anger.
- Isaiah 13:4 - A sound of tumult on the mountains, Like that of many people! A sound of the uproar of the kingdoms, Of nations gathered together! The Lord of hosts is mustering an army for battle.
- Isaiah 13:5 - They are coming from a distant country, From the end of heaven [the farthest horizon]— The Lord and the weapons of His indignation— To destroy the whole land.
- Isaiah 13:6 - Wail, for the day of the Lord is at hand! It will come as destruction from the Almighty (All Sufficient One—Invincible God)!
- Isaiah 13:7 - Therefore all hands will fall limp, And every man’s heart will melt.
- Isaiah 13:8 - They [of Babylon] will be shocked and terrified, Pains and anguish will grip them; They will be in pain like a woman in childbirth. They will stare aghast and horrified at one another, Their faces aflame [from the effects of the unprecedented warfare].
- Isaiah 13:9 - Listen carefully, the day of the Lord is coming, Cruel, with wrath and raging anger, To make the land a horror [of devastation]; And He shall exterminate its sinners from it.
- Isaiah 13:10 - For the stars of heaven and their constellations Will not flash with their light; The sun will be dark when it rises, And the moon will not shed its light.
- Isaiah 13:11 - In this way I will punish the world for its evil And the wicked for their wickedness [their sin, their injustice, their wrongdoing]; I will also put an end to the arrogance of the proud And will abase the arrogance of the tyrant.
- Isaiah 13:12 - I will make mortal man more rare than fine gold, And mankind [scarcer] than the pure gold of Ophir.
- Isaiah 13:13 - Therefore I will make the heavens tremble; And the earth will be shaken from its place At the wrath of the Lord of hosts In the day of His burning anger.
- Isaiah 13:14 - And like the hunted gazelle, Or like sheep that no man gathers, Each [foreign resident] will turn [and go back] to his own people, And each one flee to his own land.
- Isaiah 13:15 - Anyone who is found will be pierced through, And anyone who is captured will fall by the sword.
- Isaiah 13:16 - Their children also will be smashed to pieces Before their eyes; Their houses will be looted And their wives ravished.
- Isaiah 13:17 - Listen carefully, I will put the Medes [in motion] against them, Who have no regard for silver and do not delight in gold [and therefore cannot be bribed].
- Isaiah 13:18 - Their bows will cut down the young men [of Babylon]; They will take no pity on the fruit of the womb, Their eyes will not look with compassion on the children.
- Isaiah 13:19 - And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldeans’ pride, Will be like Sodom and Gomorrah when God overthrew them.
- Isaiah 13:20 - Babylon will never be inhabited or lived in from generation to generation; Nor will the Arab pitch his tent there, Nor will the shepherds let their sheep lie down there.
- Isaiah 13:21 - But desert creatures will lie down there, And their houses will be full of owls; Ostriches also will live there, and wild goats will dance there.
- Isaiah 13:22 - Hyenas will howl in their castles, And jackals in their luxurious palaces. Babylon’s time has nearly come, And her days will not be prolonged.
- Revelation 18:6 - Repay to her even as she has repaid others, and pay back [to her] double [her torment] in accordance with what she has done; in the cup [of sin and suffering] which she mixed, mix a double portion [of perfect justice] for her.