Jeremiah 51:12 Cross References - MKJV

¹² Set up the banner on the walls of Babylon; make the watch strong; set up the watchmen; prepare the ambushes. For Jehovah has both planned and done that which He spoke against the people of Babylon.

¹⁴ And it happened, when the king of Ai saw, they hurried and rose up early. And the men of the city went out to do battle against Israel, he and all his people, at the time appointed, before the plain. But he did not know that there were some lying in ambush against him behind the city.

³⁰ There is no wisdom nor understanding nor counsel against Jehovah.

⁹ Suffer evil, O people, and be broken! And give ear, all from the far places of the earth. Gird yourselves and be broken. Gird yourselves and be broken! ¹⁰ Counsel a counsel, and it is frustrated. Speak a word, and it shall not stand; for God is with us.

² Lift up a banner on a bare mountain, exalt the voice to them, shake the hand, so that they may go into the gates of the nobles.

³ Set in order the buckler and shield, and draw near to battle. ⁴ Harness the horses, and horsemen get up. Yea, stand with helmets, polish the spears; put on body armor. ⁵ Why have I seen that they are afraid, turned backward? And their mighty ones are beaten down and have fled for refuge, and they do not look back. Terror is all around, says Jehovah.

² Declare among the nations, and cause them to hear, and lift up a banner. Cause them to hear, do not hide it; say, Babylon is captured, Bel is ashamed, Merodach is broken in pieces; her images are shamed, her idols are broken in pieces.

¹¹ Sharpen the arrows; gather the shields; Jehovah has raised up the spirit of the kings of the Medes. For His plan is against Babylon, to destroy it; because it is the vengeance of Jehovah, the vengeance of His temple.

²⁷ Set up a banner in the land; blow a trumpet among the nations; prepare the nations against her. Call the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz together against her; set a commander against her. Cause the horses to come up as the rough locusts.

²⁹ And the land shall tremble and writhe. For every purpose of Jehovah shall be done against Babylon, to make the land of Babylon a desert without inhabitant.

¹⁷ Jehovah has done what He has purposed; He has fulfilled His Word which He commanded from the days of old. He has thrown down and not pitied. And He caused your hater to rejoice over you; He has set up the horn of your foes.

² I will also gather all nations and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat. And I will fight with them there for My people and for My inheritance Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and divided My land.

⁹ Proclaim this among the nations: Prepare war, wake up the mighty men, let all the men of war draw near; let them come up. ¹⁰ Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruning hooks into spears. Let the weak say, I am strong. ¹¹ Gather yourselves and come, all you nations, and gather yourselves together all around; cause Your mighty ones to come down there, O Jehovah. ¹² Let the nations be awakened and come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat; for there I will sit to judge all the nations all around. ¹³ Put in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe. Come, come down; for the press is full; the vats overflow, for their wickedness is great. ¹⁴ Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision; for the day of Jehovah is near in the valley of decision!

¹ The scattering one is coming up against your face. Guard the rampart. Watch the way, make your loins strong, firm up your power mightily.

¹⁴ Draw waters for the siege; fortify your strongholds; go into the clay, and tread the mortar; make the brick mold strong. ¹⁵ There fire shall devour you; the sword shall cut you off, it shall eat you up like the locust. Make yourself as many as the larvae, multiply yourself like the locusts.