Babylon: Bible Verses about Babylon

List of 25 Bible Verses that Reference Bible Verses about Babylon, verse, and description

1. Isaiah 13:19-22 – “And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, The beauty of the Chaldeans’ pride, Will be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. It will never be inhabited, Nor will it be settled from generation to generation; Nor will the Arabian pitch tents there, Nor will the shepherds make their sheepfolds there. But wild beasts of the desert will lie there, And their houses will be full of owls; Ostriches will dwell there, And wild goats will caper there. The hyenas will howl in their citadels, And jackals in their pleasant palaces. Her time is near to come, And her days will not be prolonged.”
2. Jeremiah 50:1-6 – “The word that the LORD spoke against Babylon and against the land of the Chaldeans by Jeremiah the prophet: “Declare among the nations, Proclaim, and set up a standard; Proclaim—do not conceal it— Say, ‘Babylon is taken, Bel is shamed. Merodach is broken in pieces; Her idols are humiliated, Her images are broken in pieces.’ For out of the north a nation comes up against her, Which shall make her land desolate, And no one shall dwell there. They shall move, they shall depart, Both man and beast. “In those days and in that time,” says the LORD, “The children of Israel shall come, They and the children of Judah together; With continual weeping they shall come, And seek the LORD their God.”
3. Jeremiah 51:7 – “Babylon was a golden cup in the LORD’S hand, That made all the earth drunk. The nations drank her wine; Therefore the nations are deranged.”
4. Jeremiah 51:14 – “The LORD of hosts has sworn by Himself: “Surely I will fill you with men, as with locusts, And they shall lift up a shout against you.”
5. Jeremiah 51:29 – “The whole earth is at rest and quiet; They break forth into singing.”
6. Jeremiah 51:44 – “And I will punish Bel in Babylon, And I will bring out of his mouth what he has swallowed; And the nations shall not stream to him anymore. Yes, the wall of Babylon shall fall.”
7. Jeremiah 51:64 – “And you shall say, ‘Thus shall Babylon sink and not rise from the catastrophe that I will bring upon her. And they shall be weary.’”
8. Jeremiah 51:62 – “And I will cause the noise of your songs to cease; The sound of your harps shall be no more.”
9. Jeremiah 51:45 – “My people, go out of the midst of her! And let everyone deliver himself from the fierce anger of the LORD.”
10. Jeremiah 51:58 – “Thus says the LORD of hosts: “The broad walls of Babylon shall be utterly broken, And her high gates shall be burned with fire; The people will labor in vain, And the nations, because of the fire; And they shall be weary.”
11. Isaiah 14:4 – “That you will take up this proverb against the king of Babylon, and say: ‘How the oppressor has ceased, The golden city ceased!’”
12. Jeremiah 51:7 – “Babylon was a golden cup in the LORD’S hand, That made all the earth drunk. The nations drank her wine; Therefore the nations are deranged.”
13. Revelation 18:21 – “And a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone and threw it into the sea, saying, “Thus with violence the great city Babylon shall be thrown down, and shall not be found anymore.”
14. Revelation 18:2 – “And he cried mightily with a loud voice, saying, “Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and has become a dwelling place of demons, a prison for every foul spirit, and a cage for every unclean and hated bird!”
15. Revelation 18:5 – “For her sins have reached to heaven, and God has remembered her iniquities.”
16. Revelation 18:10 – “Standing at a distance for fear of her torment, saying, ‘Alas, alas, that great city Babylon, that mighty city! For in one hour your judgment has come.’”
17. Isaiah 21:9 – “Babylon has fallen, has fallen! All the carved images of her gods He has broken to the ground.”
18. Daniel 4:30 – “The king spoke, saying, ‘Is not this great Babylon, that I have built for a royal dwelling by my mighty power and for the honor of my majesty?’”
19. Jeremiah 25:12 – “And it shall come to pass, when seventy years are completed, that I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation, the land of the Chaldeans, for their iniquity,’ says the LORD; ‘and I will make it a perpetual desolation.’”
20. Jeremiah 50:40 – “As God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah And their neighbors,’ says the LORD, ‘So no one shall reside there, Nor son of man dwell in it.’”
21. Habakkuk 2:8 – “Because you have plundered many nations, All the remnant of the people shall plunder you, Because of men’s blood and the violence of the land and the city, And of all who dwell in it.”
22. Jeremiah 50:17 – “Israel is a scattered sheep; The lions have driven him away. First the king of Assyria devoured him; Now at last this Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has broken his bones.”
23. Isaiah 14:22 – “For I will rise up against them,” says the LORD of hosts, “And cut off from Babylon the name and remnant, And offspring and posterity,” says the LORD.
24. Jeremiah 51:6 – “Flee from the midst of Babylon, And every one save his life! Do not be cut off in her iniquity, For this is the time of the LORD’S vengeance; He shall recompense her.”
25. Revelation 18:4 – “And I heard another voice from heaven saying, “Come out of her, my people, lest you share in her sins, and lest you receive of her plagues.”