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I am your enemy,” says the LORD. “I will raise my fist against you, to knock you down from the heights. When I am finished, you will be nothing but a heap of burnt rubble. <a href="/esv/jeremiah/51.htm">English Standard Version</a> “Behold, I am against you, O destroying mountain, declares the LORD, which destroys the whole earth; I will stretch out my hand against you, and roll you down from the crags, and make you a burnt mountain. <a href="/bsb/jeremiah/51.htm">Berean Standard Bible</a> “Behold, I am against you, O destroying mountain, you who devastate the whole earth, declares the LORD. I will stretch out My hand against you; I will roll you over the cliffs and turn you into a charred mountain. <a href="/kjv/jeremiah/51.htm">King James Bible</a> Behold, I am against thee, O destroying mountain, saith the LORD, 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. <a href="/nkjv/jeremiah/51.htm">New King James Version</a> “Behold, I am against you, O destroying mountain, Who destroys all the earth,” says the LORD. “And I will stretch out My hand against you, Roll you down from the rocks, And make you a burnt mountain. <a href="/nasb_/jeremiah/51.htm">New American Standard Bible</a> “Behold, I am against you, mountain of destruction That destroys the whole earth,” declares the LORD, “And I will stretch out My hand against you, And roll you down from the rocky cliffs, And I will make you a burnt out mountain. <a href="/nasb/jeremiah/51.htm">NASB 1995</a> &#8220Behold, I am against you, O destroying mountain, Who destroys the whole earth,&#8221 declares the LORD, &#8220And I will stretch out My hand against you, And roll you down from the crags, And I will make you a burnt out mountain. <a href="/nasb77/jeremiah/51.htm">NASB 1977 </a> “Behold, I am against you, O destroying mountain, Who destroys the whole earth,” declares the LORD, “And I will stretch out My hand against you, And roll you down from the crags And I will make you a burnt out mountain. <a href="/lsb/jeremiah/51.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a> “Behold, I am against you, O destroying mountain, Who destroys the whole earth,” declares Yahweh, “And I will stretch out My hand against you And roll you down from the crags, And I will make you a burnt out mountain. <a href="/amp/jeremiah/51.htm">Amplified Bible</a> “Behold, I am against you, O destroying mountain [conqueror of nations], Who destroys the whole earth,” declares the LORD, “I will stretch out My hand against you, And roll you down from the [rugged] cliffs, And will make you a burnt mountain (extinct volcano). <a href="/csb/jeremiah/51.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a> Look, I am against you, devastating mountain. This is the LORD’s declaration. You devastate the whole earth. I will stretch out my hand against you, roll you down from the cliffs, and turn you into a charred mountain. <a href="/hcsb/jeremiah/51.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a> Look, I am against you, devastating mountain— this is the LORD&#8217s declaration— you devastate the whole earth. I will stretch out My hand against you, roll you down from the cliffs, and turn you into a charred mountain. <a href="/asv/jeremiah/51.htm">American Standard Version</a> Behold, I am against thee, O destroying mountain, 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 burnt mountain. <a href="/cev/jeremiah/51.htm">Contemporary English Version</a> You destroyed the nations and seem strong as a mountain, but I am your enemy. I might even grab you and roll you off a cliff. When I am finished, you'll only be a pile of scorched bricks. <a href="/erv/jeremiah/51.htm">English Revised Version</a> Behold, I am against thee, O destroying mountain, saith the LORD, 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. <a href="/gwt/jeremiah/51.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a> "I am against you, Babylon, you destructive mountain. You have destroyed the whole earth," declares the LORD. "I will use my power against you, roll you off the cliffs, and make you a scorched mountain. <a href="/gnt/jeremiah/51.htm">Good News Translation</a> Babylonia, you are like a mountain that destroys the whole world, but I, the LORD, am your enemy. I will take hold of you, level you to the ground, and leave you in ashes. <a href="/isv/jeremiah/51.htm">International Standard Version</a> "Look, I'm against you, destroying mountain, who destroys the whole earth," declares the LORD. "I'll stretch out my hand against you and roll you down from the crags. And I'll make you a burned-out mountain. <a href="/msb/jeremiah/51.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a> ?Behold, I am against you, O destroying mountain, you who devastate the whole earth, declares the LORD. I will stretch out My hand against you; I will roll you over the cliffs and turn you into a charred mountain. <a href="/net/jeremiah/51.htm">NET Bible</a> The LORD says, "Beware! I am opposed to you, Babylon! You are like a destructive mountain that destroys all the earth. I will unleash my power against you; I will roll you off the cliffs and make you like a burned-out mountain. <a href="/nheb/jeremiah/51.htm">New Heart English Bible</a> "Look, I am against you, destroying mountain," says the LORD, "which destroys all the earth; and I will stretch out my hand on you, and roll you down from the rocks, and will make you a burnt mountain. <a href="/wbt/jeremiah/51.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a> Behold, I am against thee, O destroying mountain, saith the LORD, 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 burnt mountain. <a href="/web/jeremiah/51.htm">World English Bible</a> “Behold, I am against you, destroying mountain,” says Yahweh, “which destroys all the earth. I will stretch out my hand on you, roll you down from the rocks, and will make you a burned mountain. <div class="vheading2">Literal Translations</div><a href="/lsv/jeremiah/51.htm">Literal Standard Version</a> “Behold, I [am] against you, O destroying mountain,” "" A declaration of YHWH, "" “That is destroying all the earth, "" And I have stretched out My hand against you, "" And I have rolled you from the rocks, "" And given you for a burnt mountain. <a href="/ylt/jeremiah/51.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a> Lo, I am against thee, O destroying mount, An affirmation of Jehovah, That is destroying all the earth, And I have stretched out My hand against thee, And I have rolled thee from the rocks, And given thee for a burnt mountain. <a href="/slt/jeremiah/51.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a> Behold me against thee, thou destroying mountain, says Jehovah, destroying all the earth: and I stretched out my hand upon thee, and I rolled thee from the rocks, and I gave thee for a burnt mountain.<div class="vheading2">Catholic Translations</div><a href="/drb/jeremiah/51.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a> Behold I come against thee, thou destroying mountain, saith the Lord, which corruptest the whole earth: and I will stretch out my hand upon thee, and will roll thee down from the rocks, and will make thee a burnt mountain. <a href="/cpdv/jeremiah/51.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a> Behold, I am against you, you pestilent mountain, says the Lord, for you are corrupting the entire earth. And I will extend my hand over you, and I will roll you down from the rocks, and I will make you into a burning mountain. <a href="/nabre/jeremiah/51.htm">New American Bible</a> Beware! I am against you, destroying mountain—oracle of the LORD— destroyer of the entire earth, I will stretch forth my hand against you, roll you down over the cliffs, and make you a burnt mountain: <a href="/nrsvce/jeremiah/51.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a> I am against you, O destroying mountain, says the LORD, that destroys the whole earth; I will stretch out my hand against you, and roll you down from the crags, and make you a burned-out mountain.<div class="vheading2">Translations from Aramaic</div><a href="/lamsa/jeremiah/51.htm">Lamsa Bible</a> Behold, I am against you, O destroying mountain, says the LORD, which destroys all the earth; I will stretch out my hand against you and remove your foundation from the rock, and will make you a burnt mountain. <a href="/hpbt/jeremiah/51.htm">Peshitta Holy Bible Translated</a> Behold I am against you, Mountain Destroyer, says LORD JEHOVAH, who destroys all the Earth, and I shall lift my hand against you and I shall roast you from the rocks, and I shall make you a burning mountain<div class="vheading2">OT Translations</div><a href="/jps/jeremiah/51.htm">JPS Tanakh 1917</a> Behold, I am against thee, O destroying mountain, saith the LORD, 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 burnt mountain. <a href="/sep/jeremiah/51.htm">Brenton Septuagint Translation</a> Behold, I am against thee, the ruined mountain, that destroys the whole earth; and I will stretch out mine hand upon thee, and will roll thee down upon the rocks, and will make thee as a burnt mountain. <a href="/parallel/jeremiah/51-25.htm">Additional Translations ...</a></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="audio" id="audio"></a><div class="vheadingv">Audio Bible</div><iframe width="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/5k55c51ZGhs?start=16088" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe> <div class="vheadingv">Context</div><a href="/bsb/jeremiah/51.htm">Babylon's Punishment</a> …24Before your very eyes I will repay Babylon and all the dwellers of Chaldea for all the evil they have done in Zion,” declares the LORD. 25<a href="/hebrew/2005.htm" title="2005: hin·nî (Interjection:: 1cs) -- Lo! behold! A primitive particle; lo!; also if.">“Behold,</a> <a href="/hebrew/413.htm" title="413: ’ê·le·ḵā (Prep:: 2ms) -- To, into, towards. ">I am against you,</a> <a href="/hebrew/4889.htm" title="4889: ham·maš·ḥîṯ (Art:: V-Hifil-Prtcpl-ms) -- Ruin, destruction. From shachath; destructive, i.e. destruction, literally or figuratively.">O destroying</a> <a href="/hebrew/2022.htm" title="2022: har (N-msc) -- Mountain, hill, hill country. A shortened form of harar; a mountain or range of hills.">mountain,</a> <a href="/hebrew/7843.htm" title="7843: ham·maš·ḥîṯ (Art:: V-Hifil-Prtcpl-ms) -- Perhaps to go to ruin. A primitive root; to decay, i.e. ruin.">you who devastate</a> <a href="/hebrew/853.htm" title="853: ’eṯ- (DirObjM) -- Apparent contracted from 'owth in the demonstrative sense of entity; properly, self."></a> <a href="/hebrew/3605.htm" title="3605: kāl- (N-msc) -- The whole, all. Or kowl; from kalal; properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every.">the whole</a> <a href="/hebrew/776.htm" title="776: hā·’ā·reṣ (Art:: N-fs) -- Earth, land. From an unused root probably meaning to be firm; the earth.">earth,</a> <a href="/hebrew/5002.htm" title="5002: nə·’um- (N-msc) -- Utterance. From na'am; an oracle.">declares</a> <a href="/hebrew/3068.htm" title="3068: Yah·weh (N-proper-ms) -- The proper name of the God of Israel. From hayah; self-Existent or Eternal; Jehovah, Jewish national name of God.">the LORD.</a> <a href="/hebrew/5186.htm" title="5186: wə·nā·ṭî·ṯî (Conj-w:: V-Qal-ConjPerf-1cs) -- A primitive root; to stretch or spread out; by implication, to bend away; used in a great variety of application.">I will stretch out</a> <a href="/hebrew/853.htm" title="853: ’eṯ- (DirObjM) -- Apparent contracted from 'owth in the demonstrative sense of entity; properly, self."></a> <a href="/hebrew/3027.htm" title="3027: yā·ḏî (N-fsc:: 1cs) -- Hand (indicating power, means, direction, etc.)">My hand</a> <a href="/hebrew/5921.htm" title="5921: ‘ā·le·ḵā (Prep:: 2ms) -- Properly, the same as al used as a preposition; above, over, upon, or against in a great variety of applications.">against you;</a> <a href="/hebrew/1556.htm" title="1556: wə·ḡil·gal·tî·ḵā (Conj-w:: V-Piel-ConjPerf-1cs:: 2ms) -- To roll, roll away. A primitive root; to roll.">I will roll you</a> <a href="/hebrew/4480.htm" title="4480: min- (Prep) -- From. Or minniy; or minney; for men; properly, a part of; hence, from or out of in many senses.">over</a> <a href="/hebrew/5553.htm" title="5553: has·sə·lā·‘îm (Art:: N-mp) -- A crag, cliff. From an unused root meaning to be lofty; a craggy rock, literally or figuratively.">the cliffs</a> <a href="/hebrew/5414.htm" title="5414: ū·nə·ṯat·tî·ḵā (Conj-w:: V-Qal-ConjPerf-1cs:: 2ms) -- To give, put, set. A primitive root; to give, used with greatest latitude of application.">and turn you</a> <a href="/hebrew/8316.htm" title="8316: śə·rê·p̄āh (N-fs) -- A burning. From saraph; cremation.">into a charred</a> <a href="/hebrew/2022.htm" title="2022: lə·har (Prep-l:: N-msc) -- Mountain, hill, hill country. A shortened form of harar; a mountain or range of hills.">mountain.</a> 26No one shall retrieve from you a cornerstone or a foundation stone, because you will become desolate forever,” declares the LORD.…<div class="cred"><a href="//berean.bible">Berean Standard Bible</a> · <a href="//berean.bible/downloads.htm">Download</a></div> <a name="crossref" id="crossref"></a><div class="vheading">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><a href="/revelation/18-21.htm">Revelation 18:21</a> Then a mighty angel picked up a stone the size of a great millstone and cast it into the sea, saying: “With such violence the great city of Babylon will be cast down, never to be seen again. <a href="/isaiah/13-19.htm">Isaiah 13:19</a> And Babylon, the jewel of the kingdoms, the glory of the pride of the Chaldeans, will be overthrown by God like Sodom and Gomorrah. <a href="/revelation/17-5.htm">Revelation 17:5</a> And on her forehead a mysterious name was written: BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF PROSTITUTES AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH. <a href="/isaiah/47-1.htm">Isaiah 47:1-3</a> “Go down and sit in the dust, O Virgin Daughter of Babylon. Sit on the ground without a throne, O Daughter of the Chaldeans! For you will no longer be called tender or delicate. / Take millstones and grind flour; remove your veil; strip off your skirt, bare your thigh, and wade through the streams. / Your nakedness will be uncovered and your shame will be exposed. I will take vengeance; I will spare no one.” <a href="/revelation/18-2.htm">Revelation 18:2</a> And he cried out in a mighty voice: “Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great! She has become a lair for demons and a haunt for every unclean spirit, every unclean bird, and every detestable beast. <a href="/isaiah/14-4.htm">Isaiah 14:4-6</a> you will sing this song of contempt against the king of Babylon: How the oppressor has ceased, and how his fury has ended! / The LORD has broken the staff of the wicked, the scepter of the rulers. / It struck the peoples in anger with unceasing blows; it subdued the nations in rage with relentless persecution. <a href="/revelation/14-8.htm">Revelation 14:8</a> Then a second angel followed, saying, “Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great, who has made all the nations drink the wine of the passion of her immorality.” <a href="/isaiah/21-9.htm">Isaiah 21:9</a> Look, here come the riders, horsemen in pairs.” And one answered, saying: “Fallen, fallen is Babylon! All the images of her gods lie shattered on the ground!” <a href="/revelation/16-19.htm">Revelation 16:19</a> The great city was split into three parts, and the cities of the nations collapsed. And God remembered Babylon the great and gave her the cup of the wine of the fury of His wrath. <a href="/isaiah/13-1.htm">Isaiah 13:1-3</a> This is the burden against Babylon that Isaiah son of Amoz received: / Raise a banner on a barren hilltop; call aloud to them. Wave your hand, that they may enter the gates of the nobles. / I have commanded My sanctified ones; I have even summoned My warriors to execute My wrath and exult in My triumph. <a href="/revelation/18-10.htm">Revelation 18:10</a> In fear of her torment, they will stand at a distance and cry out: “Woe, woe to the great city, the mighty city of Babylon! For in a single hour your judgment has come.” <a href="/isaiah/14-22.htm">Isaiah 14:22-23</a> “I will rise up against them,” declares the LORD of Hosts. “I will cut off from Babylon her name and her remnant, her offspring and her posterity,” declares the LORD. / “I will make her a place for owls and for swamplands; I will sweep her away with the broom of destruction,” declares the LORD of Hosts. <a href="/revelation/18-8.htm">Revelation 18:8</a> Therefore her plagues will come in one day—death and grief and famine—and she will be consumed by fire, for mighty is the Lord God who judges her.” <a href="/isaiah/47-11.htm">Isaiah 47:11</a> But disaster will come upon you; you will not know how to charm it away. A calamity will befall you that you will be unable to ward off. Devastation will happen to you suddenly and unexpectedly. <a href="/revelation/18-5.htm">Revelation 18:5</a> For her sins are piled up to heaven, and God has remembered her iniquities.</div> <a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div>Behold, I am against you, O destroying mountain, said the LORD, which destroy all the earth: and I will stretch out my hand on you, and roll you down from the rocks, and will make you a burnt mountain.I am<a href="/jeremiah/50-31.htm">Jeremiah 50:31</a> Behold, I am against thee, O thou most proud, saith the Lord GOD of hosts: for thy day is come, the time that I will visit thee.O destroying<a href="/jeremiah/51-53.htm">Jeremiah 51:53,58</a> Though 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 the LORD… <a href="/genesis/11-4.htm">Genesis 11:4</a> And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.<a href="/isaiah/13-2.htm">Isaiah 13:2</a> Lift ye up a banner upon the high mountain, exalt the voice unto them, shake the hand, that they may go into the gates of the nobles.which destroyest<a href="/jeremiah/51-7.htm">Jeremiah 51:7,20-23</a> Babylon hath been a golden cup in the LORD'S hand, that made all the earth drunken: the nations have drunken of her wine; therefore the nations are mad… <a href="/jeremiah/25-9.htm">Jeremiah 25:9,18-27</a> Behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, saith the LORD, and Nebuchadrezzar 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… <a href="/revelation/8-8.htm">Revelation 8:8</a> And the second angel sounded, and as it were a great mountain burning with fire was cast into the sea: and the third part of the sea became blood;and will<a href="/2_peter/3-10.htm">2 Peter 3:10</a> But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.<a href="/revelation/8-8.htm">Revelation 8:8</a> And the second angel sounded, and as it were a great mountain burning with fire was cast into the sea: and the third part of the sea became blood;<a href="/revelation/18-9.htm">Revelation 18:9,10</a> And the kings of the earth, who have committed fornication and lived deliciously with her, shall bewail her, and lament for her, when they shall see the smoke of her burning, … <div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/jeremiah/46-19.htm">Burnt</a> <a href="/jeremiah/38-26.htm">Causing</a> <a href="/jeremiah/4-29.htm">Cliffs</a> <a href="/jeremiah/51-24.htm">Declares</a> <a href="/jeremiah/51-20.htm">Destroy</a> <a href="/isaiah/33-1.htm">Destroyest</a> <a href="/jeremiah/51-1.htm">Destroying</a> <a href="/jeremiah/48-18.htm">Destroys</a> <a href="/jeremiah/51-18.htm">Destruction</a> <a href="/jeremiah/51-16.htm">Earth</a> <a href="/jeremiah/51-7.htm">Hand</a> <a href="/jeremiah/50-6.htm">Mountain</a> <a href="/jeremiah/48-28.htm">Rocks</a> <a href="/jeremiah/36-32.htm">Roll</a> <a href="/jeremiah/31-39.htm">Stretch</a> <a href="/jeremiah/51-7.htm">Whole</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/ezekiel/16-41.htm">Burnt</a> <a href="/lamentations/2-21.htm">Causing</a> <a href="/1_samuel/13-6.htm">Cliffs</a> <a href="/jeremiah/51-26.htm">Declares</a> <a href="/jeremiah/51-55.htm">Destroy</a> <a href="/lamentations/3-66.htm">Destroyest</a> <a href="/lamentations/2-8.htm">Destroying</a> <a href="/jeremiah/51-55.htm">Destroys</a> <a href="/jeremiah/51-54.htm">Destruction</a> <a href="/jeremiah/51-41.htm">Earth</a> <a href="/jeremiah/52-21.htm">Hand</a> <a href="/lamentations/5-18.htm">Mountain</a> <a href="/hosea/10-14.htm">Rocks</a> <a href="/ezekiel/2-9.htm">Roll</a> <a href="/ezekiel/6-14.htm">Stretch</a> <a href="/jeremiah/51-41.htm">Whole</a><div class="vheading2">Jeremiah 51</div>1. <a href="/jeremiah/51-1.htm">The severe judgment of God against Babylon, in revenge of Israel</a> 59. <a href="/jeremiah/51-59.htm">Jeremiah delivers the book of this prophecy to Seraiah, to be cast into Euphrates, </a> 64. <a href="/jeremiah/51-64.htm">in token of the perpetual sinking of Babylon</a> </div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; 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Mountains often symbolize kingdoms or empires in biblical literature. Babylon, at the height of its power, was seen as a formidable force that dominated the ancient Near East. The imagery of a mountain suggests stability and strength, yet God declares His opposition, indicating that no earthly power is beyond His judgment. This echoes other biblical passages where God opposes proud nations (<a href="/isaiah/2-12.htm">Isaiah 2:12-17</a>).you who devastate the whole earth Babylon's conquests and military campaigns had far-reaching impacts, leading to widespread destruction and subjugation of various peoples. Historically, Babylon was known for its military prowess and its role in the exile of the Jewish people. This phrase underscores the extent of Babylon's influence and the resulting devastation, aligning with the biblical theme of divine retribution against oppressive powers (<a href="/habakkuk/2-8.htm">Habakkuk 2:8</a>).declares the LORD This declaration emphasizes the authority and certainty of God's pronouncement. The use of "declares the LORD" is a common prophetic formula that assures the audience of the divine origin of the message. It reinforces the idea that the judgment against Babylon is not merely a human prediction but a divine decree, ensuring its fulfillment (<a href="/isaiah/55-11.htm">Isaiah 55:11</a>).I will stretch out My hand against you The imagery of God stretching out His hand signifies direct intervention and judgment. This phrase is reminiscent of God's actions against Egypt during the Exodus (<a href="/exodus/7-5.htm">Exodus 7:5</a>), highlighting His power to deliver His people and execute justice. It serves as a reminder of God's sovereignty over nations and His ability to bring down even the mightiest empires.I will roll you over the cliffs This vivid imagery suggests a complete and catastrophic downfall. The idea of being rolled over cliffs conveys the sudden and irreversible nature of Babylon's destruction. It reflects the biblical theme of divine retribution where the proud and powerful are brought low (<a href="/isaiah/13-19.htm">Isaiah 13:19</a>). The metaphor also implies that Babylon's fall will be as dramatic as its rise.and turn you into a charred mountain The transformation into a "charred mountain" symbolizes total desolation and ruin. Fire is often associated with judgment and purification in the Bible (<a href="/malachi/4.htm">Malachi 4:1</a>). This imagery indicates that Babylon will be left in a state of utter destruction, no longer a source of power or influence. It serves as a warning to other nations about the consequences of pride and rebellion against God. The prophecy of Babylon's fall is fulfilled historically with its conquest by the Medes and Persians, as recorded in <a href="/daniel/5.htm">Daniel 5</a>.<div class="vheading2">Persons / Places / Events</div>1. <a href="/topical/j/jeremiah.htm">Jeremiah</a> A major prophet in the Old Testament, Jeremiah was called by God to deliver messages of judgment and hope to the people of Judah and the surrounding nations. 2. <a href="/topical/b/babylon.htm">Babylon</a> Referred to metaphorically as the "destroying mountain," Babylon was a powerful empire known for its military conquests and destruction, particularly of Jerusalem and the Temple in 586 BC. 3. <a href="/topical/t/the_lord.htm">The LORD (Yahweh)</a> The covenant God of Israel, who declares judgment against Babylon for its pride and destruction. 4. <a href="/topical/t/the_whole_earth.htm">The Whole Earth</a> Symbolically represents the nations and peoples affected by Babylon's conquests and influence. 5. <a href="/topical/t/the_cliffs.htm">The Cliffs</a> A metaphor for Babylon's seemingly impregnable strength and high position, which God promises to bring down.<div class="vheading2">Teaching Points</div><a href="/topical/g/god's_sovereignty_over_nations.htm">God's Sovereignty Over Nations</a> God is in control of all nations and empires, regardless of their power or influence. He raises them up and brings them down according to His purposes. <a href="/topical/j/judgment_against_pride_and_destruction.htm">Judgment Against Pride and Destruction</a> Babylon's downfall serves as a warning against pride and the destruction of others. God opposes those who exalt themselves and harm His creation. <a href="/topical/t/the_certainty_of_god's_promises.htm">The Certainty of God's Promises</a> Just as God promised to bring down Babylon, His promises of justice and redemption are sure. Believers can trust in His word and timing. <a href="/topical/t/the_temporary_nature_of_earthly_power.htm">The Temporary Nature of Earthly Power</a> Earthly powers and empires are temporary and will ultimately be subject to God's eternal kingdom. Believers should place their hope in God's unshakeable kingdom. <a href="/topical/c/call_to_repentance_and_humility.htm">Call to Repentance and Humility</a> The message of judgment is also a call to repentance. Individuals and nations are invited to humble themselves before God and seek His mercy.<div class="vheading2">Lists and Questions</div><a href="/top10/lessons_from_jeremiah_51.htm">Top 10 Lessons from Jeremiah 51</a> <a href="/q/how_could_rev_8_8's_event_lack_evidence.htm">In Revelation 8:8, how could a burning mountain be thrown into the sea and turn it to blood without any known historical or archaeological evidence? </a> <a href="/q/do_historical_records_confirm_jeremiah_42.htm">Jeremiah 42:11-12: The text promises divine protection from Babylon; do non-biblical historical records confirm or contradict this claim?</a> <a href="/q/why_debate_2_kings_25_9's_destruction.htm">If 2 Kings 25:9 describes a total razing of Jerusalem, why is the archaeological record for such extensive destruction still debated?</a> <a href="/q/why_does_a_kind_god_allow_destruction.htm">How can a compassionate God (Lamentations 3:22) allow such overwhelming destruction in Jerusalem?</a><a name="commentary" id="commentary"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/jeremiah/51.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>(25) O destroying mountain.--Singularly enough the phrase is the same as that which is applied in <a href="/2_kings/23-13.htm" title="And the high places that were before Jerusalem, which were on the right hand of the mount of corruption, which Solomon the king of Israel had built for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Zidonians, and for Chemosh the abomination of the Moabites, and for Milcom the abomination of the children of Ammon, did the king defile.">2Kings 23:13</a> to the Mount of Olives, and is there rendered by the Authorised version as "the Mount of Corruption." It adds to the interest that this name so given appears in the reign of Josiah, and must therefore have been familiar to Jeremiah. There it is applied to the Mount of Olives as having been the centre of the worship of Ashtoreth and Chemosh and Milcom, destroying the faith and life of Israel. Here, not without the thought that the false worship of Babylon was the root of all its evils, the prophet applies it to that city. The use of the term "mountain," literally quite inapplicable, was symbolical of its sovereignty. The latter clause of the verse suggests the idea that the prophet had before him the picture of a volcano.And will make thee a burnt mountain.--Literally, a mountain of burning--either actively, as rolling down its lava and stones to the destruction of all below; or passively, as spent and burnt out. As the sentence describes the doom of Babylon, the latter meaning seems preferable. It is interesting to note the fact that there is an extinct volcano known as Koukal (= fire), which rises to a height of 300 feet above the river Khabour, in Western Assyria (the Chebar of <a href="/ezekiel/1-3.htm" title="The word of the LORD came expressly to Ezekiel the priest, the son of Buzi, in the land of the Chaldeans by the river Chebar; and the hand of the LORD was there on him.">Ezekiel 1:3</a>), consisting of loose lava, scoriae, and ashes. (Rawlinson's Ancient Monarchies, i. 189.) Possibly the prophet, who had journeyed to the Euphrates, had seen in this the symbol of the "destroying mountain" that destroyed itself. Babylon was for him an extinct volcano.<div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/jeremiah/51.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div>Verses 25, 26. - Another image for the destruction of Babylon. Verse 25. - O destroying mountain. The description evidently points to a volcano. (1) Jehovah says that he will roll the mountain down from the rocks, which can only be understood of the stones and lava hurled down from the crater; (2) that he will make it a "mountain of burning," i.e. either to a burning, or, more forcibly, a burnt out mountain; and (3) that, as a consequence of this, its stones shall be unsuitable for the purposes of the builder. Now, Palestine, it has been clearly made out, "lies almost in the centre of one great volcano region of the earth's surface, that, namely, which includes the basin of the Mediterranean and the provinces of Western or Central Asia. Traces of that volcanic action are found in every direction. The black basaltic rock of the Hauran, the hot springs of Tiberius and Emmaus and Gadara, the naphtha fountains near the Dead Sea, the dykes of porphyry and other volcanic rooks that force their way through the limestone, the many eaves in the limestone rocks themselves, - all these show that we are treading on ground where the forces of the hidden fires of earth have been in times past in active operation. We are, that is, in a zone of earthquakes" (Plumptre, 'Biblical Studies,' p. 136; comp. Pusey's note on Amos 4:11). There is a striking parallel to this prophetic description in <a href="/revelation/8-8.htm">Revelation 8:8</a>, where the destruction of a great empire is likened to the submersion in the sea of a great burning mountain, (Vitringa has noticed the parallel.) <a href="/commentaries/jeremiah/51-25.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a> <a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Hebrew</div>“Behold, הִנְנִ֨י (hin·nî) Interjection | first person common singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_2005.htm">Strong's 2005: </a> Lo! behold! I am against you, אֵלֶ֜יךָ (’ê·le·ḵā) Preposition | second person masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_413.htm">Strong's 413: </a> Near, with, among, to O destroying הַמַּשְׁחִית֙ (ham·maš·ḥîṯ) Article | Verb - Hifil - Participle - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_4889.htm">Strong's 4889: </a> Destructive, destruction mountain, הַ֤ר (har) Noun - masculine singular construct <a href="/hebrew/strongs_2022.htm">Strong's 2022: </a> Mountain, hill, hill country you who devastate הַמַּשְׁחִ֖ית (ham·maš·ḥîṯ) Article | Verb - Hifil - Participle - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_7843.htm">Strong's 7843: </a> Perhaps to go to ruin the whole כָּל־ (kāl-) Noun - masculine singular construct <a href="/hebrew/strongs_3605.htm">Strong's 3605: </a> The whole, all, any, every earth, הָאָ֑רֶץ (hā·’ā·reṣ) Article | Noun - feminine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_776.htm">Strong's 776: </a> Earth, land declares נְאֻם־ (nə·’um-) Noun - masculine singular construct <a href="/hebrew/strongs_5002.htm">Strong's 5002: </a> An oracle the LORD. יְהוָ֔ה (Yah·weh) Noun - proper - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_3068.htm">Strong's 3068: </a> LORD -- the proper name of the God of Israel I will stretch out וְנָטִ֨יתִי (wə·nā·ṭî·ṯî) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - first person common singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_5186.htm">Strong's 5186: </a> To stretch out, spread out, extend, incline, bend My hand יָדִ֜י (yā·ḏî) Noun - feminine singular construct | first person common singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_3027.htm">Strong's 3027: </a> A hand against you; עָלֶ֗יךָ (‘ā·le·ḵā) Preposition | second person masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_5921.htm">Strong's 5921: </a> Above, over, upon, against I will roll you וְגִלְגַּלְתִּ֙יךָ֙ (wə·ḡil·gal·tî·ḵā) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Piel - Conjunctive perfect - first person common singular | second person masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_1556.htm">Strong's 1556: </a> To roll, roll away over מִן־ (min-) Preposition <a href="/hebrew/strongs_4480.htm">Strong's 4480: </a> A part of, from, out of the cliffs, הַסְּלָעִ֔ים (has·sə·lā·‘îm) Article | Noun - masculine plural <a href="/hebrew/strongs_5553.htm">Strong's 5553: </a> A craggy rock and turn you וּנְתַתִּ֖יךָ (ū·nə·ṯat·tî·ḵā) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - first person common singular | second person masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_5414.htm">Strong's 5414: </a> To give, put, set into a charred שְׂרֵפָֽה׃ (śə·rê·p̄āh) Noun - feminine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_8316.htm">Strong's 8316: </a> Cremation mountain. לְהַ֥ר (lə·har) Preposition-l | Noun - masculine singular construct <a href="/hebrew/strongs_2022.htm">Strong's 2022: </a> Mountain, hill, hill country <div class="vheading">Links</div><a href="/niv/jeremiah/51-25.htm">Jeremiah 51:25 NIV</a> <a href="/nlt/jeremiah/51-25.htm">Jeremiah 51:25 NLT</a> <a href="/esv/jeremiah/51-25.htm">Jeremiah 51:25 ESV</a> <a href="/nasb/jeremiah/51-25.htm">Jeremiah 51:25 NASB</a> <a href="/kjv/jeremiah/51-25.htm">Jeremiah 51:25 KJV</a> <a href="//bibleapps.com/jeremiah/51-25.htm">Jeremiah 51:25 BibleApps.com</a> <a href="//bibliaparalela.com/jeremiah/51-25.htm">Jeremiah 51:25 Biblia Paralela</a> <a href="//holybible.com.cn/jeremiah/51-25.htm">Jeremiah 51:25 Chinese Bible</a> <a href="//saintebible.com/jeremiah/51-25.htm">Jeremiah 51:25 French Bible</a> <a href="/catholic/jeremiah/51-25.htm">Jeremiah 51:25 Catholic Bible</a> <a href="/jeremiah/51-25.htm">OT Prophets: Jeremiah 51:25 Behold I am against you destroying mountain (Jer.) </a></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="/jeremiah/51-24.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Jeremiah 51:24"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Jeremiah 51:24" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="/jeremiah/51-26.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Jeremiah 51:26"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Jeremiah 51:26" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhnew2.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>