Jeremiah 50:41
Good News Translation
"People are coming from a country in the north, a mighty nation far away; many kings are preparing for war.

New Revised Standard Version
Look, a people is coming from the north; a mighty nation and many kings are stirring from the farthest parts of the earth.

Contemporary English Version
Far to the north, a nation and its allies have been awakened. They are powerful and ready for war.

New American Bible
See, a people comes from the north, a great nation, and mighty kings rising from the ends of the earth.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Behold a people cometh from the north, and a great nation, and many kings shall rise from the ends of the earth.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Behold a people cometh from the north, and a great nation, and many kings shall rise from the ends of the earth.

Jeremiah 50:2,3,9 Declare ye among the nations, and publish it, lift up a standard: proclaim, and conceal it not: say: Babylon is taken, Bel is confounded, Merodach is overthrown, their graven things are confounded, their idols are overthrown. . . .

Jeremiah 6:22,23 Thus saith the Lord: Behold a people cometh from the land of the north, and a great nation shall rise up from the ends of the earth. . . .

Jeremiah 25:14 For they have served them, whereas they were many nations, and great kings: and I will repay them according to their deeds, and according to the works of their hands.

Jeremiah 51:1,2,11,27,28 Thus saith the Lord: Behold I will raise up as it were a pestilential wind against Babylon and against the inhabitants thereof, who have lifted up their heart against me. . . .

Isaiah 13:2-5,17,18 Upon the dark mountain lift ye up a banner, exalt the voice, lift up the hand, and let the rulers go into the gates. . . .

Revelation 17:16 And the ten horns which thou sawest in the beast: These shall hate the harlot and shall make her desolate and naked and shall eat her flesh and shall burn her with fire.

Context
The Destruction of Babylon
40As the Lord overthrew Sodom and Gomorrha, and their neighbour cities, saith the Lord: no man shall dwell there, neither shall the son of man inhabit it. 41Behold a people cometh from the north, and a great nation, and many kings shall rise from the ends of the earth.42They shall take the bow and the shield: they are cruel and unmerciful: their voice shall roar like the sea, and they shall ride upon horses: like a man prepared for battle against thee, O daughter of Babylon.…
Cross References
Isaiah 13:2
Upon the dark mountain lift ye up a banner, exalt the voice, lift up the hand, and let the rulers go into the gates.

Jeremiah 6:22
Thus saith the Lord: Behold a people cometh from the land of the north, and a great nation shall rise up from the ends of the earth.

Jeremiah 25:14
For they have served them, whereas they were many nations, and great kings: and I will repay them according to their deeds, and according to the works of their hands.

Jeremiah 50:3
For a nation is come up against her out of the north, which shall make her land desolate: and there shall be none to dwell therein, from man even to beast: yea they are removed, and gone away.

Jeremiah 50:9
For behold I raise up, and will bring against Babylon an assembly of great nations from the land of the north: and they shall be prepared against her, and from thence she shall be taken: their arrows, like those of a mighty man, a destroyer, shall not return in vain.

Jeremiah 51:27
Set ye up a standard in the land: sound with the trumpet among the nations: prepare the nations against her: call together against her the kings of Ararat, Menni, and Ascenez: number Taphsar against her, bring the horse as the stinging locust.

Jeremiah 51:28
Prepare the nations against her, the kings of Media, their captains, and all their rulers, and all the land of their dominion.

Daniel 5:26
And this is the interpretation of the word. MANE: God hath numbered thy kingdom, and hath finished it.

Jeremiah 50:40
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