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Jeremiah 50:12

your mother will be greatly ashamed; she who bore you will be disgraced. Behold, she will be the least of the nations, a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert.

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ASV

your mother shall be utterly put to shame; she that bare you shall be confounded: behold, she shall be the hindermost of the nations, a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert.

KJV

Your mother shall be sore confounded; she that bare you shall be ashamed: behold, the hindermost of the nations shall be a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert.

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11 tagged words
OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
בּ֤וֹשָׁהBo.o.shahshe will be ashamedH954 →
אִמְּכֶם֙'i.me.Khemmother yourH517 →
מְאֹ֔דme.'OdexceedinglyH3966 →
חָפְרָ֖הcha.fe.Rahshe will be abashedH2659 →
יֽוֹלַדְתְּכֶ֑םyo.lad.te.Khem[the one who] gave birth youH3205 →
הִנֵּה֙hi.Nehthere!H2009 →
אַחֲרִ֣ית'a.cha.Rit[the] last ofH319 →
גּוֹיִ֔םgo.YimnationsH1471 →
מִדְבָּ֖רmid.Bara wildernessH4057 →
צִיָּ֥הtzi.Yaha desertH6723 →
וַעֲרָבָֽה׃va.'a.ra.Vahand a desert plainH6160 →

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Jeremiah 51:43Her cities have become a desolation, a dry and arid land, a land where no one lives, where no son of man passes through.Revelation 17:5And on her forehead a mysterious name was written: BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF PROSTITUTES AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.Isaiah 14:22“I will rise up against them,” declares the LORD of Hosts. “I will cut off from Babylon her name and her remnant, her offspring and her posterity,” declares the LORD.Jeremiah 49:2Therefore, behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will sound the battle cry against Rabbah of the Ammonites. It will become a heap of ruins, and its villages will be burned. Then Israel will drive out their dispossessors, says the LORD.Revelation 18:21–23Then a mighty angel picked up a stone the size of a great millstone and cast it into the sea, saying: “With such violence the great city of Babylon will be cast down, never to be seen again.Isaiah 13:20–22She will never be inhabited or settled from generation to generation; no nomad will pitch his tent there, no shepherd will rest his flock there.Jeremiah 51:62–64and 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.’Galatians 4:26But the Jerusalem above is free, and she is our mother.Jeremiah 25:26all the kings of the north, both near and far, one after another—all the kingdoms on the face of the earth. And after all of them, the king of Sheshach will drink it too.Isaiah 23:13Look at the land of the Chaldeans—a people now of no account. The Assyrians destined it for the desert creatures; they set up their siege towers and stripped its palaces. They brought it to ruin.Jeremiah 51:25–26“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 50:35–40A sword is against the Chaldeans, declares the LORD, against those who live in Babylon, and against her officials and wise men.Jeremiah 25:12But when seventy years are complete, I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation, the land of the Chaldeans, for their guilt, declares the LORD, and I will make it an everlasting desolation.Hosea 4:5You will stumble by day, and the prophet will stumble with you by night; so I will destroy your mother—Jeremiah 50:38A drought is upon her waters, and they will be dried up. For it is a land of graven images, and the people go mad over idols.

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The Prophet Jeremiah — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
The Prophet Jeremiah — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
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