THEOSISJeremiah 50:38Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
A drought upon her waters, and they shall be dried up: because it is a land of idols, and they glory in monstrous things.
חֹ֥רֶב אֶל־מֵימֶ֖יהָ וְיָבֵ֑שׁוּ כִּ֣י אֶ֤רֶץ פְּסִלִים֙ הִ֔יא וּבָאֵימִ֖ים יִתְהֹלָֽלוּ׃
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- Jer 50:2Declare ye among the nations, and publish it, lift up a standard: proclaim, and conceal it not: say: Babylon is taken, Bel is confounded, Merodach is overthrown, their graven things are confounded, their idols are overthrown.
- Rev 16:12And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon that great river Euphrates and dried up the water thereof, that a way might be prepared for the kings from the rising of the sun.
- Isa 44:27Who say to the deep: Be thou desolate, and I will dry up thy rivers.
- Jer 51:47Therefore behold the days come, and I will visit the idols of Babylon: and her whole land shall be confounded, and all her slain shall fall in the midst of her.
- Jer 51:52Therefore behold the days come, saith the Lord, and I will visit her graven things, and in all her land the wounded shall groan:
- Jer 51:44And I will visit against Bel in Babylon, and I will bring forth out of his mouth that which he had swallowed down: and the nations shall no more flow together to him, for the wall also of Babylon shall fall.
- Jer 51:32And that the fords are taken, and the marshes are burnt with fire, and the men of war are affrighted.
- Jer 51:36Therefore thus saith the Lord: Behold I will judge thy cause, and will take vengeance for thee, and I will make her sea desolate, I and will dry up her spring.