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Jeremiah 51:56
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Jeremiah 51:56
56Because the spoiler is come upon her, even upon Babylon, and her mighty men are taken, every one of their bows is broken: for the Lord God of recompences shall surely requite.
56Because the spoiler is come vpon her, euen vpon Babylon, and her mightie men are taken, euery one of their bowes is broken, for the LORD God of recompenses shall surely requite.
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DEFINED WORDS
Jeremiah 51:56
For the reason that; since.
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A plunderer; a pillager; a robber.
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Indeed or precisely; adding emphasis to what follows.
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The city and kingdom of Babylon; by extension in prophecy, a power or system bearing that name.
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Possessing or displaying great strength, power, ability, rank, or effect.
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Received, seized, carried, accepted, captured, chosen, or laid hold of, according to context.
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Each one of all; all taken separately, without exception in the stated group.
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The number one; a single person or thing; the same or united as a whole.
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Curved weapons for shooting arrows; bendings or inclinations of the body; or, as a verb, bends, stoops, or submits, according to context.
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LORD: The name of God the Father in English, from the Hebrew Tetragrammaton YHWH, also rendered GOD and JEHOVAH. Lord: A title applied to God and Christ as ruler and master, the one to whom worship and obedience are due. lord: A male master, owner, ruler, or superior addressed or described as one having authority.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage · Strong 1890 (alignment witness) · Webster 1828
A deity or object of worship; when referring to the LORD, the one true God.
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Certainly, truly, firmly, or without doubt.
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To repay either good or evil; in a good sense, to recompense; to return an equivalent in good; to reward.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage
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Open the full verse study6Flee out of the midst of Babylon, and deliver every man his soul: be not cut off in her iniquity; for this is the time of the Lord’s vengeance; he will render unto her a recompence.
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Open the full verse study8Because thou hast spoiled many nations, all the remnant of the people shall spoil thee; because of men’s blood, and for the violence of the land, of the city, and of all that dwell therein.
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Open the full verse study48Then the heaven and the earth, and all that is therein, shall sing for Babylon: for the spoilers shall come unto her from the north, saith the Lord.
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Open the full verse study9He maketh wars to cease unto the end of the earth; he breaketh the bow, and cutteth the spear in sunder; he burneth the chariot in the fire.
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Open the full verse study1O LORD God, to whom vengeance belongeth; O God, to whom vengeance belongeth, shew thyself.
2Lift up thyself, thou judge of the earth: render a reward to the proud.
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Open the full verse study35To me belongeth vengeance, and recompence; their foot shall slide in due time: for the day of their calamity is at hand, and the things that shall come upon them make haste.
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Open the full verse study18According to their deeds, accordingly he will repay, fury to his adversaries, recompence to his enemies; to the islands he will repay recompence.
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Open the full verse study24And I will render unto Babylon and to all the inhabitants of Chaldea all their evil that they have done in Zion in your sight, saith the Lord.
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Open the full verse study3There brake he the arrows of the bow, the shield, and the sword, and the battle. Selah.
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Open the full verse study2For true and righteous are his judgments: for he hath judged the great whore, which did corrupt the earth with her fornication, and hath avenged the blood of his servants at her hand.
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Open the full verse study4The bows of the mighty men are broken, and they that stumbled are girded with strength.
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Open the full verse study6Seeing it is a righteous thing with God to recompense tribulation to them that trouble you;
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Open the full verse study3And I will smite thy bow out of thy left hand, and will cause thine arrows to fall out of thy right hand.
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Open the full verse study9And they that dwell in the cities of Israel shall go forth, and shall set on fire and burn the weapons, both the shields and the bucklers, the bows and the arrows, and the handstaves, and the spears, and they shall burn them with fire seven years:
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Open the full verse study24But his bow abode in strength, and the arms of his hands were made strong by the hands of the mighty God of Jacob; (from thence is the shepherd, the stone of Israel:)
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Open the full verse study2A grievous vision is declared unto me; the treacherous dealer dealeth treacherously, and the spoiler spoileth. Go up, O Elam: besiege, O Media; all the sighing thereof have I made to cease.
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Open the full verse study8For it is the day of the Lord’s vengeance, and the year of recompences for the controversy of Zion.
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Open the full verse study4Say to them that are of a fearful heart, Be strong, fear not: behold, your God will come with vengeance, even God with a recompence; he will come and save you.
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Open the full verse study35Thus saith the Lord of hosts; Behold, I will break the bow of Elam, the chief of their might.
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Open the full verse study10And Chaldea shall be a spoil: all that spoil her shall be satisfied, saith the Lord.
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Open the full verse study28The voice of them that flee and escape out of the land of Babylon, to declare in Zion the vengeance of the Lord our God, the vengeance of his temple.
29Call together the archers against Babylon: all ye that bend the bow, camp against it round about; let none thereof escape: recompense her according to her work; according to all that she hath done, do unto her: for she hath been proud against the Lord, against the Holy One of Israel.
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Open the full verse study36A sword is upon the liars; and they shall dote: a sword is upon her mighty men; and they shall be dismayed.
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Open the full verse study30The mighty men of Babylon have forborn to fight, they have remained in their holds: their might hath failed; they became as women: they have burned her dwellingplaces; her bars are broken.
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Open the full verse study8O daughter of Babylon, who art to be destroyed; happy shall he be, that rewardeth thee as thou hast served us.
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Open the full verse study15Their sword shall enter into their own heart, and their bows shall be broken.
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Open the full verse study16And the ten horns which thou sawest upon the beast, these shall hate the whore, and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and burn her with fire.
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Open the full verse study20Rejoice over her, thou heaven, and ye holy apostles and prophets; for God hath avenged you on her.
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Open the full verse study5For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities.
6Reward her even as she rewarded you, and double unto her double according to her works: in the cup which she hath filled fill to her double.
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