Quotes about Destruction
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
“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
“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
“The sound of a cry comes from Babylon, the sound of great destruction from the land of the Chaldeans!
— Jeremiah 51:54
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
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
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
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
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
He burned down the house of the LORD, the royal palace, and all the houses of Jerusalem—every significant building.
— Jeremiah 52:13
And the whole army of the Chaldeans under the captain of the guard broke down all the walls around Jerusalem.
— Jeremiah 52:14
Moreover, the Chaldeans broke up the bronze pillars and stands and the bronze Sea in the house of the LORD, and they carried all the bronze to Babylon.
— Jeremiah 52:17