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Jeremiah 51

Jer. 51:25 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Behold, I am against thee, O destroying
mashchiyth (Hebrew #4889)
destructive, i.e. (as noun) destruction, literally (specifically a snare) or figuratively (corruption)
KJV usage: corruption, (to) destroy(-ing), destruction, trap, X utterly.
Pronounce: mash-kheeth'
Origin: from 7843
mountain
har (Hebrew #2022)
a mountain or range of hills (sometimes used figuratively)
KJV usage: hill (country), mount(-ain), X promotion.
Pronounce: har
Origin: a shortened form of 2042
m, saith
n'um (Hebrew #5002)
an oracle
KJV usage: (hath) said, saith.
Pronounce: neh-oom'
Origin: from 5001
the Lord
Yhovah (Hebrew #3068)
(the) self-Existent or Eternal; Jehovah, Jewish national name of God
KJV usage: Jehovah, the Lord. Compare 3050, 3069.
Pronounce: yeh-ho-vaw'
Origin: from 1961
, which destroyest
shachath (Hebrew #7843)
to decay, i.e. (causatively) ruin (literally or figuratively)
KJV usage: batter, cast off, corrupt(-er, thing), destroy(-er, -uction), lose, mar, perish, spill, spoiler, X utterly, waste(-r).
Pronounce: shaw-khath'
Origin: a primitive root
all the earth
'erets (Hebrew #776)
the earth (at large, or partitively a land)
KJV usage: X common, country, earth, field, ground, land, X natins, way, + wilderness, world.
Pronounce: eh'-rets
Origin: from an unused root probably meaning to be firm
: and I will stretch out
natah (Hebrew #5186)
to stretch or spread out; by implication, to bend away (including moral deflection); used in a great variety of application (as follows)
KJV usage: + afternoon, apply, bow (down, - ing), carry aside, decline, deliver, extend, go down, be gone, incline, intend, lay, let down, offer, outstretched, overthrown, pervert, pitch, prolong, put away, shew, spread (out), stretch (forth, out), take (aside), turn (aside, away), wrest, cause to yield.
Pronounce: naw-taw'
Origin: a primitive root
mine hand
yad (Hebrew #3027)
a hand (the open one (indicating power, means, direction, etc.), in distinction from 3709, the closed one); used (as noun, adverb, etc.) in a great variety of applications, both literally and figuratively, both proximate and remote (as follows)
KJV usage: (+ be) able, X about, + armholes, at, axletree, because of, beside, border, X bounty, + broad, (broken-)handed, X by, charge, coast, + consecrate, + creditor, custody, debt, dominion, X enough, + fellowship, force, X from, hand(-staves, -y work), X he, himself, X in, labour, + large, ledge, (left-)handed, means, X mine, ministry, near, X of, X order, ordinance, X our, parts, pain, power, X presumptuously, service, side, sore, state, stay, draw with strength, stroke, + swear, terror, X thee, X by them, X themselves, X thine own, X thou, through, X throwing, + thumb, times, X to, X under, X us, X wait on, (way-)side, where, + wide, X with (him, me, you), work, + yield, X yourselves.
Pronounce: yawd
Origin: a primitive word
upon thee, and roll thee down
galal (Hebrew #1556)
to roll (literally or figuratively)
KJV usage: commit, remove, roll (away, down, together), run down, seek occasion, trust, wallow.
Pronounce: gaw-lal'
Origin: a primitive root
n from the rocks
cela` (Hebrew #5553)
a craggy rock, literally or figuratively (a fortress)
KJV usage: (ragged) rock, stone(-ny), strong hold.
Pronounce: seh'-lah
Origin: from an unused root meaning to be lofty
, and will make
nathan (Hebrew #5414)
to give, used with greatest latitude of application (put, make, etc.)
KJV usage: add, apply, appoint, ascribe, assign, X avenge, X be ((healed)), bestow, bring (forth, hither), cast, cause, charge, come, commit, consider, count, + cry, deliver (up), direct, distribute, do, X doubtless, X without fail, fasten, frame, X get, give (forth, over, up), grant, hang (up), X have, X indeed, lay (unto charge, up), (give) leave, lend, let (out), + lie, lift up, make, + O that, occupy, offer, ordain, pay, perform, place, pour, print, X pull , put (forth), recompense, render, requite, restore, send (out), set (forth), shew, shoot forth (up), + sing, + slander, strike, (sub-)mit, suffer, X surely, X take, thrust, trade, turn, utter, + weep, + willingly, + withdraw, + would (to) God, yield.
Pronounce: naw-than'
Origin: a primitive root
thee a burnt
srephah (Hebrew #8316)
cremation
KJV usage: burning.
Pronounce: ser-ay-faw'
Origin: from 8313
mountain
har (Hebrew #2022)
a mountain or range of hills (sometimes used figuratively)
KJV usage: hill (country), mount(-ain), X promotion.
Pronounce: har
Origin: a shortened form of 2042
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Isa. 13:2• 2Lift up a banner upon a bare mountain, raise the voice to them, wave the hand that they may enter the gates of the nobles. (Isa. 13:2)
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Zech. 4:7• 7Who art thou, O great mountain? before Zerubbabel thou shalt become a plain: and he shall bring forth the headstone thereof with shoutings, crying, Grace, grace unto it! (Zech. 4:7)
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Rev. 8:8• 8And the second angel sounded; and as a great mountain burning with fire was cast into the sea; and the third of the sea became blood: (Rev. 8:8)

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I am.
Jer. 50:31• 31Behold, I am against thee, O thou most proud, saith Jehovah God of Hosts: for thy day is come, the time that I will visit thee. (Jer. 50:31)
O destroying.
Jer. 51:53,58• 53Though Babylon should mount up to heaven, and though she should fortify the height of her strength, yet from me shall spoilers come unto her, saith Jehovah.
 58Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, The broad walls of Babylon shall be utterly broken, and her high gates shall be burned with fire; and the people shall labour in vain, and the folk in the fire, and they shall be weary. (Jer. 51:53,58)
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Gen. 11:4• 4And they said, Come, let us build ourselves a city and a tower, whose top [may reach] to the heavens; and let us make ourselves a name, lest we be scattered over the face of the whole earth. (Gen. 11:4)
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Isa. 13:2• 2Lift up a banner upon a bare mountain, raise the voice to them, wave the hand that they may enter the gates of the nobles. (Isa. 13:2)
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Dan. 4:30• 30The king spake, and said, Is not this great Babylon, that I have built for the house of the kingdom by the might of my power, and for the honour of my majesty? (Dan. 4:30)
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Zech. 4:7• 7Who art thou, O great mountain? before Zerubbabel thou shalt become a plain: and he shall bring forth the headstone thereof with shoutings, crying, Grace, grace unto it! (Zech. 4:7)
which destroyest.
Jer. 51:7,20‑23• 7Babylon hath been a golden cup in Jehovah's hand, that made all the earth drunken: the nations have drunken of her wine; therefore the nations are mad.
 20Thou wast my battle axe, weapons of war: with thee I have broken nations in pieces; and with thee I have destroyed kingdoms.
 21And with thee I have broken in pieces the horse and his rider; and with thee I have broken in pieces the chariot and its rider;
 22and with thee I have broken in pieces the husband and the wife; and with thee I have broken in pieces the aged and the young; and with thee I have broken in pieces the youth and the maid.
 23And with thee I have broken in pieces the shepherd and his flock; and with thee I have broken in pieces the plowman and his team; and with thee I have broken in pieces the governors and prefects. (Jer. 51:7,20‑23)
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Jer. 25:9,18‑27• 9I will send and take all the families of the north, saith Jehovah, and Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will bring them against this land, and against the inhabitants thereof, and against all these nations round about, and will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, and an hissing, and perpetual desolations.
 18To wit, Jerusalem, and the cities of Judah, and the kings thereof, and the princes thereof, to make them a desolation, an astonishment, an hissing and a curse as it is this day;
 19Pharaoh king of Egypt, and his servants, and his princes, and all his people;
 20and all the mingled people, and all the kings of the land of Uz, and all the kings of the land of the Philistines, and Ashkelon, and Uzzah, and Ekron, and the remnant of Ashdod,
 21Edom, and Moab, and the children of Ammon,
 22and all the kings of Tyrus, and all the kings of Zidon, and the kings of the isles which are beyond the sea,
 23Dedan, and Tema, and Buz, and all that are in the utmost corners,
 24and all the kings of Arabia, and all the kings of the mingled people that dwell in the desert,
 25and all the kings of Zimri, and all the kings of Elam, and all the kings of the Medes,
 26and all the kings of the north, far and near, one with another, and all the kingdoms of the world, which are upon the face of the earth: and the king of Sheshach shall drink after them.
 27Therefore thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel: Drink ye, and be drunken, and spue, and fall, and rise no more, because of the sword which I will send among you. (Jer. 25:9,18‑27)
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Rev. 8:8• 8And the second angel sounded; and as a great mountain burning with fire was cast into the sea; and the third of the sea became blood: (Rev. 8:8)
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Rev. 17:1‑6• 1And there came one of the seven angels that had the seven bowls, and spoke with me, saying, Come hither; I will show thee the judgment of the great harlot that sitteth on [the] many waters;
 2with whom the kings of the earth committed fornication, and those that inhabit the earth were made drunk with the wine of her fornication.
 3And he carried me away in the Spirit into a wilderness; and I saw a woman sitting upon a scarlet beast full of [the] names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.
 4And the woman was clothed with purple and scarlet, and decked with gold and precious stone and pearls, having in her hand a golden cup full of abominations and the unclean things of her fornication,
 5and upon her forehead a name written: MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF THE HARLOTS AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.
 6And I saw the woman drunk with the blood of the saints and with the blood of the witnesses of Jesus; and when I saw her, I wondered with great wonder. (Rev. 17:1‑6)
and will.
2 Peter 3:10• 10But the day of [the] Lord will come as a thief; in which the heavens shall pass away with rushing noise, and elements, with fervent heat, shall be dissolved, and [the] earth and the works that are therein shall be burnt up. (2 Peter 3:10)
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Rev. 8:8• 8And the second angel sounded; and as a great mountain burning with fire was cast into the sea; and the third of the sea became blood: (Rev. 8:8)
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Rev. 18:9‑10• 9And the kings of the earth that committed fornication and lived luxuriously with her shall weep and wail on account of her, when they see the smoke of her burning,
 10standing afar off because of the fear of her torment, saying, Woe, woe, the great city Babylon, the strong city! for in one hour came thy judgment. (Rev. 18:9‑10)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Behold, I am against thee, mount of destructionb, saith Jehovah, which destroyest all the earth; and I will stretch out my hand upon thee, and roll thee down from the rocks, and will make thee a burning mountain.

JND Translation Notes

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Or "mount of corruption." see 2 Kings 23.13.

W. Kelly Translation

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Behold, I am against thee, O destroying mountain, saith Jehovah, which destroyest all the earth: and I will stretch out mine hand upon thee, and roll thee down from the rocks, and will make thee a burnt mountain.