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Jer. 50:11 KJV (With Strong’s)

Because ye were glad, because ye rejoiced, O ye destroyers of mine heritage, because ye are grown μfat as the heifer at grass, and νbellow as bulls;

big, or, corpulent.

or, neigh as steeds.

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Bull; Bullock,

Grass,

Heifer

Cross References

ye were.

Prov. 17:5• ⁵Whoso mocketh a poor [man] reproacheth his Maker;{HR}He that is glad at calamity shall not be held innocent. (Prov. 17:5)

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Lam. 1:21• ²¹They have heard that I sigh: there is none to comfort me:{HR}All mine enemies have heard of my trouble, they are glad that thou hast done it;{HR}Thou wilt bring the day that thou hast called, and they shall be like unto me. (Lam. 1:21)

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Lam. 2:15‑16• ¹⁵All that pass by clap their hands at thee;{HR}They hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem, saying,{HR}Is this the city that men call the perfection of beauty, the joy of the whole earth?
¹⁶All thine enemies have opened their mouth against thee:{HR}They hiss and gnash the teeth: they say, We have swallowed her up:{HR}Certainly this is the day that we looked for; we have found, we have seen it. (Lam. 2:15‑16)

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Lam. 4:21‑22• ²¹Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Edom, that dwellest in the land of Uz;{HR}The cup also shall pass through unto thee: thou shalt be drunken, and shalt make thyself naked.
²²The punishment of thine iniquity is accomplished, O daughter of Zion;{HR}He will no more carry thee away into captivity: he will visit thine iniquity,{HR}O daughter of Edom; he will discover thy sins. (Lam. 4:21‑22)

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Ezek. 25:3‑8,15‑17• ³and say unto the sons of Ammon, Hear the word of the Lord Jehovah; Thus saith the Lord Jehovah; Because thou saidst, Aha, against my sanctuary, when it was profaned; and against the land of Israel, when it was desolate; and against the house of Judah, when they went into captivity;
⁴behold, therefore, I will deliver thee to the men of the east for a possession, and they shall set their villages in thee, and make their dwellings in thee: they shall eat thy fruit, and they shall drink thy milk.
⁵And I will make Rabbah a stable for camels, and the sons of Ammon a couching place for flocks: and ye shall know that I am Jehovah.
⁶For thus saith the Lord Jehovah; Because thou hast clapped thine hands, and stamped with the feet, and rejoiced in heart with all thy despite against the land of Israel;
⁷behold, therefore I will stretch out mine hand upon thee, and will deliver thee for a spoil to the heathen; and I will cut thee off from the people, and I will cause thee to perish out of the countries: I will destroy thee; and thou shalt know that I am Jehovah.
⁸Thus saith the Lord Jehovah; Because that Moab and Seir do say, Behold the house of Judah is like unto all the heathen;
¹⁵Thus saith the Lord Jehovah; Because the Philistines have dealt by revenge, and have taken vengeance with a despiteful heart, to destroy it for the old hatred;
¹⁶therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah; Behold, I will stretch out mine hand upon the Philistines, and I will cut off the Cherethim, and destroy the remnant of the sea coast.
¹⁷And I will execute great vengeance upon them with furious rebukes; and they shall know that I am Jehovah, when I shall lay my vengeance upon them. (Ezek. 25:3‑8,15‑17)

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Ezek. 26:2‑3• ²Son of man, because that Tyrus hath said against Jerusalem, Aha, she is broken that was the gates of the people: she is turned unto me: I shall be replenished, now she is laid waste:
³therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah; Behold, I am against thee, Ο Tyrus, and will cause many nations to come up against thee, as the sea causeth his waves to come up. (Ezek. 26:2‑3)

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Obad. 12• ¹²But thou shouldest not have looked on the day of thy brother in the day that he became a stranger, neither shouldest thou have rejoiced over the children of Judah in the day of their destruction; neither shouldest thou have spoken proudly in the day of distress. (Obad. 12)

ye destroyers.

Jer. 50:17• ¹⁷Israel is a scattered sheep; the lions have driven him away: first the king of Assyria hath devoured him; and last this Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon hath broken his bones. (Jer. 50:17)

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Jer. 51:34‑35• ³⁴Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon hath devoured me, he hath crushed me, he hath made me an empty vessel, he hath swallowed me up like a dragon, he hath filled his belly with my delicates, he hath cast me out.
³⁵The violence done to me and to my flesh be upon Babylon, shall the inhabitant of Zion say; and my blood upon the inhabitants of Chaldea, shall Jerusalem say. (Jer. 51:34‑35)

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Psa. 74:2‑8• ²Remember thine assembly thou hast purchased of old,{HR}Thou hast redeemed [as] rod of thine inheritance,{HR}This mount Zion thou hast dwelt in.
³Lift up thy steps unto the perpetual ruins,{HR}Every evil the enemy hath done in the sanctuary.
⁴Thine adversaries have roared in the midst of thy place of assembly:{HR}They have set their signs [for] signs.
⁵One was known as raising up axes on the thicket of trees:
⁶And now its carvings together they strike down with hatchets and hammers.
⁷They have set on fire thy sanctuary;{HR}To the ground they have profaned the tabernacle of thy name.
⁸They said in their heart,{HR}Let us destroy them together.{HR}They have burnt all God's places of assembly in the land. (Psa. 74:2‑8)

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Psa. 79:1‑4• ¹A psalm of Asaph.{HR}O God, nations are come into thine inheritance,{HR}The temple of thy holiness have they defiled,{HR}They have laid Jerusalem in heaps.
²They have given the dead bodies of thy servants{HR}For meat to the birds of the heavens,{HR}The flesh of thy saints to the beasts of the earth.
³They have shed their blood, as the waters, round about Jerusalem,{HR}And there was none to bury.
⁴We are become a reproach to our neighbours,{HR}A mockery and derision to those round about us. (Psa. 79:1‑4)

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Psa. 83:1‑5• ¹A song, a psalm of Asaph.{HR}O God, keep not silence;{HR}Hold not thy peace and be not still, O God .
²For, behold, thine enemies make a tumult,{HR}And those that hate thee have lifted up the head.
³Against thy people they devise secret craft{HR}And consult against thy hidden ones.
⁴They said, Come, and we will cut them off from [being] a nation,{HR}And let the name of Israel be remembered no more.
⁵For they have heartily consulted together;{HR}Against thee do they make a covenant: (Psa. 83:1‑5)

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Isa. 10:6‑7• ⁶I will send him against a hypocritical nation, and against the people of my wrath will I give him a charge, to take the spoil, and to seize the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.
⁷But he meaneth not so, neither doth his heart think so; but [it is] in his heart to destroy and cut off nations not a few. (Isa. 10:6‑7)

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Isa. 47:6• ⁶I was wroth with my people, I profaned mine inheritance, and gave them into thy hand: thou didst show them no mercy; upon the aged hast thou very heavily laid thy yoke. (Isa. 47:6)

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Zech. 2:8‑9• ⁸For thus saith Jehovah of hosts; After the glory hath he sent me unto the nations which spoiled you; for he that toucheth you toucheth the apple of his eye.
⁹For, behold, I will shake mine hand upon them, and they shall be a spoil to their servants: and ye shall know that Jehovah of hosts hath sent me. (Zech. 2:8‑9)

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Zech. 14:1‑3,12• ¹Behold, the day of Jehovah cometh, and thy spoil shall be divided in the midst of thee.
²For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished; and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, and the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city.
³And Jehovah will go forth and fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle.
¹²And this shall be the plague wherewith Jehovah will smite all the peoples that have warred against Jerusalem: their flesh shall consume away while they stand upon their feet, and their eyes shall consume away in their holes, and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth. (Zech. 14:1‑3,12)

ye are.

Jer. 50:27• ²⁷Slay all her bullocks; let them go down to the slaughter: woe unto them! for their day is come, the time of their visitation. (Jer. 50:27)

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Jer. 46:21• ²¹Also her hired men in the midst of her are like fatted bullocks; for they also have turned back, they have fled away together, they did not stand; for the day of their calamity is come upon them, the time of their visitation. (Jer. 46:21)

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Deut. 32:15• ¹⁵Then Jeshurun grew fat, and kicked{HR}—Thou art waxen fat,{HR}Thou art grown thick,{HR}And thou art covered with fatness;{HR}—He gave up God who made him,{HR}And lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation.{HR} (Deut. 32:15)

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Psa. 22:12• ¹²Many bulls have surrounded me;{HR}Strong ones of Bashan have encompassed me. (Psa. 22:12)

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Hos. 10:11• ¹¹And Ephraim is a trained heifer, that loveth to tread out the corn; I have passed over upon her fair neck: I will make Ephraim to draw; Judah shall plough, Jacob shall break his clods. (Hos. 10:11)

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Amos 4:1• ¹Hear this word, ye kine of Bashan, that are in the mountain of Samaria, which oppress the poor, which crush the needy, which say to their masters, Bring, and let us drink. (Amos 4:1)

fat.

Heb. big.

or, corpulent.

Jer. 5:28• ²⁸They are become fat, they shine, yea, they surpass in deeds of wickedness; they judge not the cause, the cause of the fatherless, and they prosper; and the right of the needy do they not adjudge. (Jer. 5:28)

bellow as bulls.

or, neigh as steeds.

Jer. 5:8• ⁸They were as fed horses in the morning: every one neighed after his neighbour's wife. (Jer. 5:8)

J. N. Darby Translation

For ye rejoiced, for ye triumphed, ye plunderers of my heritage; for ye have been wanton as the heifer at grasse, and neighed as steeds.

JND Translation Notes

Or "that treadeth out [the corn]."

W. Kelly Translation

Because ye were glad, because ye rejoiced, O ye destroyers of mine heritage, because ye are grown fat as the heifer at grass, and bellow as bulls: