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Jeremiah 51

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Jeremiah 51 . 1 , The severe judgment of God against Babylon , in revenge of Israel; Jeremiah 51 . 59 , Jeremiah delivers the book of this prophecy to Seraiah , to be cast into Euphrates , in token of the perpetual sinking of Babylon.

Jeremiah 51:1

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 51:1 · BSB

I will5 parallels

rise5 parallels

a destroying wind6 parallels

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midst Heb. heart

Jeremiah 51:2

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 51:2 · BSB

fanners4 parallels

in the day6 parallels

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Jeremiah 51:3

Do not let the archer bend his bow or put on his armor. Do not spare her young men; devote all her army to destruction!

Jeremiah 51:3 · BSB

let the3 parallels

brigandine1 parallel

spare7 parallels

destroy1 parallel

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Jeremiah 51:4

And they will fall slain in the land of the Chaldeans, and pierced through in her streets.

Jeremiah 51:4 · BSB

thrust5 parallels

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Jeremiah 51:5

For Israel and Judah have not been abandoned by their God, the LORD of Hosts, though their land is full of guilt before the Holy One of Israel.”

Jeremiah 51:5 · BSB

Israel19 parallels

nor3 parallels

though12 parallels

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Jeremiah 51:6

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.

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Flee9 parallels

be not4 parallels

for this13 parallels

he will render2 parallels

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Jeremiah 51:7

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 51:7 · BSB

a golden4 parallels

the nations10 parallels

are mad2 parallels

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Jeremiah 51:8

Suddenly Babylon has fallen and been shattered. Wail for her; get her balm for her pain; perhaps she can be healed.

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suddenly7 parallels

howl10 parallels

take balm4 parallels

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Jeremiah 51:9

“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 51:9 · BSB

forsake7 parallels

her judgment4 parallels

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Jeremiah 51:10

“The LORD has brought forth our vindication; come, let us tell in Zion what the LORD our God has accomplished.”

Jeremiah 51:10 · BSB

brought3 parallels

let us13 parallels

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Jeremiah 51:11

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 51:11 · BSB

Make8 parallels

the Lord hath17 parallels

his device3 parallels

the vengeance11 parallels

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bright Heb. pure

the spirit Of Cyaxares king of Media , called "Darius the Mede" in scripture; and of Cyrus his nephew , king of persia , presumptive heir of the throne of his uncle.

Jeremiah 51:12

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 51:12 · BSB

the standard10 parallels

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Heb. liers in wait

the Lord hath both3 parallels

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Jeremiah 51:13

You who dwell by many waters, rich in treasures, your end has come; the thread of your life is cut.

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dwellest3 parallels

abundant4 parallels

thine9 parallels

and the7 parallels

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Jeremiah 51:14

The LORD of Hosts has sworn by Himself: “Surely I will fill you up with men as with locusts, and they will shout in triumph over you.”

Jeremiah 51:14 · BSB

sworn3 parallels

as with7 parallels

lift up1 parallel

Heb. utter

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himself Heb. his soul

Jeremiah 51:15

The LORD made the earth by His power; He established the world by His wisdom and stretched out the heavens by His understanding.

Jeremiah 51:15 · BSB

hath made16 parallels

by his wisdom4 parallels

and hath8 parallels

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Jeremiah 51:16

When He thunders, the waters in the heavens roar; He causes the clouds to rise from the ends of the earth. He generates the lightning with the rain and brings forth the wind from His storehouses.

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he uttereth10 parallels

there is5 parallels

and he causeth1 parallel

bringeth12 parallels

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multitude or , noise

Jeremiah 51:17

Every man is senseless and devoid of knowledge; every goldsmith is put to shame by his idols. For his molten images are a fraud, and there is no breath in them.

Jeremiah 51:17 · BSB

Every12 parallels

brutish by his knowledge5 parallels

or , more brutish than to know , for his

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Jeremiah 51:18

They are worthless, a work to be mocked. In the time of their punishment they will perish.

Jeremiah 51:18 · BSB

vanity4 parallels

in the9 parallels

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Jeremiah 51:19

The Portion of Jacob is not like these, for He is the Maker of all things, and of the tribe of His inheritance—the LORD of Hosts is His name.

Jeremiah 51:19 · BSB

portion5 parallels

the former1 parallel

the rod9 parallels

the Lord2 parallels

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Jeremiah 51:20

“You are My war club, My weapon for battle. With you I shatter nations; with you I bring kingdoms to ruin.

Jeremiah 51:20 · BSB

art13 parallels

break3 parallels

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with thee or , in thee , or , by thee

Jeremiah 51:21

With you I shatter the horse and rider; with you I shatter the chariot and driver.

Jeremiah 51:21 · BSB

the whole verse12 parallels

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Jeremiah 51:22

With you I shatter man and woman; with you I shatter the old man and the youth; with you I shatter the young man and the maiden.

Jeremiah 51:22 · BSB

the whole verse7 parallels

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Jeremiah 51:23

With you I shatter the shepherd and his flock; with you I shatter the farmer and his oxen; with you I shatter the governors and officials.

Jeremiah 51:23 · BSB

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Jeremiah 51:24

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.

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the whole verse24 parallels

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Jeremiah 51:25

“Behold, I am against you, O destroying mountain, you who devastate the whole earth, declares the LORD. I will stretch out My hand against you; I will roll you over the cliffs and turn you into a charred mountain.

Jeremiah 51:25 · BSB

I am1 parallel

O destroying6 parallels

which destroyest6 parallels

and will4 parallels

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Jeremiah 51:26

No one shall retrieve from you a cornerstone or a foundation stone, because you will become desolate forever,” declares the LORD.

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shall not6 parallels

desolate for ever4 parallels

Heb. everlasting desolations

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Jeremiah 51:27

“Raise a banner in the land! Blow the ram’s horn among the nations! Prepare the nations against her. Summon the kingdoms against her—Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz. Appoint a captain against her; bring up horses like swarming locusts.

Jeremiah 51:27 · BSB

ye up8 parallels

prepare1 parallel

Ararat1 parallel

Bochart reasonably concludes Ararat and Minni to be the greater and lesser Armenia; and Ashchenaz he thinks formed part of Phrygia near the Hellespont , part of that country being called Ascania by Homer. Cyrus had conquered Armenia , defeated Croesus king of Lydia . bc 548 and subdued several nations from the Egean sea to the Euphrates , before he marched against Babylon; and Xenophon also informs us that there were not only Armenians , but both Phrygians and Cappadocians in the army of Cyrus

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cause9 parallels

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Jeremiah 51:28

Prepare the nations for battle against her—the kings of the Medes, their governors and all their officials, and all the lands they rule.

Jeremiah 51:28 · BSB

the kings14 parallels

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Jeremiah 51:29

The earth quakes and writhes because the LORD’s intentions against Babylon stand: to make the land of Babylon a desolation, without inhabitant.

Jeremiah 51:29 · BSB

the land9 parallels

every17 parallels

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Jeremiah 51:30

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 51:30 · BSB

The mighty11 parallels

Accordingly , the Babylonians , after the loss of a battle or two , never recovered their courage to the face the enemy in the field , they retired within their walls; and the first time that Cyrus came with his army before the place he could not provoke them to venture forth , though he challenged the king to fight a duel with him; and the last time he came he consulted with his officers respecting the best mode of carrying on the siege "since ," said he , "they do not come out to fight."

her bars8 parallels

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Jeremiah 51:31

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 51:31 · BSB

post9 parallels

to show5 parallels

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Jeremiah 51:32

The fords have been seized, the marshes set on fire, and the soldiers are terrified.”

Jeremiah 51:32 · BSB

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Jeremiah 51:33

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 51:33 · BSB

is like6 parallels

the time7 parallels

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it is time to thresh her or , in the time that he thresheth her

Jeremiah 51:34

“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 51:34 · BSB

the king7 parallels

he hath made7 parallels

swallowed7 parallels

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Jeremiah 51:35

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 51:35 · BSB

The violence18 parallels

Heb. My violence

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flesh or , remainder

inhabitant Heb. inhabitress

Jeremiah 51:36

Therefore this is what the LORD says: “Behold, I will plead your case and take vengeance on your behalf; I will dry up her sea and make her springs run dry.

Jeremiah 51:36 · BSB

I will plead11 parallels

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take7 parallels

and I will4 parallels

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Jeremiah 51:37

Babylon will become a heap of rubble, a haunt for jackals, an object of horror and scorn, without inhabitant.

Jeremiah 51:37 · BSB

become15 parallels

an hissing8 parallels

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Jeremiah 51:38

They will roar together like young lions; they will growl like lion cubs.

Jeremiah 51:38 · BSB

roar8 parallels

yell1 parallel

or , shake themselves

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Jeremiah 51:39

While they are flushed with heat, I will serve them a feast, and I will make them drunk so that they may revel; then they will fall asleep forever and never wake up, declares the LORD.

Jeremiah 51:39 · BSB

their heat8 parallels

and sleep4 parallels

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Jeremiah 51:40

I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with male goats.

Jeremiah 51:40 · BSB

the whole verse5 parallels

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Jeremiah 51:41

How Sheshach has been captured! The praise of all the earth has been seized. What a horror Babylon has become among the nations!

Jeremiah 51:41 · BSB

Sheshach2 parallels

Sheshach was probably an idol worshipped at Babylon , from which the city derived this name; and the festival which was held when the city was taken , when they were heated with wine , was perhaps observed in honour of it

the praise10 parallels

an astonishment5 parallels

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Jeremiah 51:42

The sea has come up over Babylon; she is covered in turbulent waves.

Jeremiah 51:42 · BSB

the whole verse12 parallels

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Jeremiah 51:43

Her cities have become a desolation, a dry and arid land, a land where no one lives, where no son of man passes through.

Jeremiah 51:43 · BSB

cities4 parallels

a land4 parallels

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Jeremiah 51:44

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 51:44 · BSB

I will punish5 parallels

I will bring6 parallels

the nations10 parallels

the wall2 parallels

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Jeremiah 51:45

Come out of her, My people! Save your lives, each of you, from the fierce anger of the LORD.

Jeremiah 51:45 · BSB

go8 parallels

deliver4 parallels

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Jeremiah 51:46

Do not let your heart grow faint, and do not be afraid when the rumor is heard in the land; for a rumor will come one year—and then another the next year—of violence in the land and of ruler against ruler.

Jeremiah 51:46 · BSB

lest6 parallels

or , let not

a rumour shall3 parallels

ruler against4 parallels

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Jeremiah 51:47

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 51:47 · BSB

I will5 parallels

do judgment upon5 parallels

Heb. visit upon

her whole4 parallels

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Jeremiah 51:48

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 51:48 · BSB

the heaven11 parallels

the spoilers4 parallels

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Jeremiah 51:49

"Babylon must fall on account of the slain of Israel, just as the slain of all the earth have fallen because of Babylon.

Jeremiah 51:49 · BSB

As Babylon17 parallels

etc. or , Both Babylon is to fall , O ye slain of Israel and with Babylon shall fall the slain of all the country. hath

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Jeremiah 51:50

You who have escaped the sword, depart and do not linger! Remember the LORD from far away, and let Jerusalem come to mind."

Jeremiah 51:50 · BSB

escaped12 parallels

remember13 parallels

Jerusalem1 parallel

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Jeremiah 51:51

“We are ashamed because we have heard reproach; disgrace has covered our faces, because foreigners have entered the holy places of the LORD’s house.”

Jeremiah 51:51 · BSB

are confounded11 parallels

shame8 parallels

for strangers15 parallels

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Jeremiah 51:52

“Therefore, behold, the days are coming,” declares the LORD, “when I will punish her idols, and throughout her land the wounded will groan.

Jeremiah 51:52 · BSB

that I2 parallels

the wounded5 parallels

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her graven images This was verified when Xerxes destroyed all the temples of Babylon , bc 479.

Jeremiah 51:53

Even if Babylon ascends to the heavens and fortifies her lofty stronghold, the destroyers I send will come against her,” declares the LORD.

Jeremiah 51:53 · BSB

mount13 parallels

from15 parallels

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Jeremiah 51:54

“The sound of a cry comes from Babylon, the sound of great destruction from the land of the Chaldeans!

Jeremiah 51:54 · BSB

the whole verse8 parallels

Jeremiah 48 . 3-5

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Jeremiah 51:55

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 51:55 · BSB

destroyed9 parallels

her waves7 parallels

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Jeremiah 51:56

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 51:56 · BSB

the spoiler5 parallels

her mighty2 parallels

every8 parallels

the Lord16 parallels

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Jeremiah 51:57

I will make her princes and wise men drunk, along with her governors, officials, and warriors. Then they will fall asleep forever and not wake up,” declares the King, whose name is the LORD of Hosts.

Jeremiah 51:57 · BSB

I will12 parallels

sleep a3 parallels

the king3 parallels

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Jeremiah 51:58

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 51:58 · BSB

The broad walls of Babylon2 parallels

or , The walls of broad Babylon , According to the testimony of Herodotus , the circumference of the walls of Babylon was 480 stadia , or 60 miles , their breadth 50 cubits , and their height 200 cubits; but when Darius became master of the place , bc 516 , he took away all their 100 gates of brass , and beat down their walls to 50 cubits; and now not a vestige of these immense fortifications remains , to mark the site of this once mighty city!

high gates3 parallels

the people5 parallels

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broken or , made naked

Jeremiah 51:59

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 51:59 · BSB

Neriah3 parallels

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with or , on the behalf of

quiet prince or , prince of Menucha , or chief chamberlain

Jeremiah 51:60

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 51:60 · BSB

the whole verse11 parallels

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Jeremiah 51:61

And Jeremiah said to Seraiah, “When you get to Babylon, see that you read all these words aloud,

Jeremiah 51:61 · BSB

and shalt see2 parallels

read6 parallels

Jeremiah 51:62

and say, ‘O LORD, You have promised to cut off this place so that no one will remain—neither man nor beast. Indeed, it will be desolate forever.’

Jeremiah 51:62 · BSB

to cut15 parallels

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Jeremiah 51:63

When you finish reading this scroll, tie a stone to it and cast it into the Euphrates.

Jeremiah 51:63 · BSB

thou shalt bind4 parallels

This was the emblem of its overthrow and irretrievable ruin; and the same emblem is employed in

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Jeremiah 51:64

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 51:64 · BSB

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The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge is the classical cross-reference layer — centuries of catchword parallels beneath the site’s quotations, allusions, and echoes. Every reference above also flows into the wider web of connections.

In the wider web5 threads
Intertextuality Pairs
Echoes Jeremiah 51:44 → Isaiah 2:2, Jeremiah 51:48 → Deuteronomy 32:43
Trajectories
Eden as Temple (Original Sanctuary), New Jerusalem (Ultimate Temple-City), Plagues of Egypt (Judgment on False Gods)
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