Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Jeremiah 50:12 Cross-References
Explore 13 cross-references for Jeremiah 50:12 from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, connecting Jeremiah chapter 50 verse 12 to related passages throughout the Bible.
“Your mother shall be sore confounded; she that bare you shall be ashamed: behold, the hindermost of the nations shall be a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert.”
Jeremiah 50:12 (KJV)
Commentary on Jeremiah 50:12
Your mother shall be sore confounded; she that bare you shall be ashamed—'Your mother' refers to Babylon itself as the mother-city of the empire. Bosh (בּוֹשׁ, confounded) means put to shame, humiliated, disappointed in expectation. Chapher (חָפֵר, ashamed) intensifies this—disgraced, reproached. The personification makes the judgment vivid: the proud city will experience shame as profound as a mother whose children bring disgrace.Behold, the hindermost of the nations shall be a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert—'hindermost' (achariyth, אַחֲרִית) means last, rearmost, least important—a shoc...
Source: KJV Study Commentary
Cross-References for Jeremiah 50:12
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“a dry land”
“saying”
“behold”
“says Yahweh”
“Yahweh”
“neither will it be lived in from generation to generation. The Arabian will not pitch a tent there”
“MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF THE PROSTITUTES AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.”
“and cut off from Babylon name and remnant, and son and son's son, says Yahweh.”
“far and near”
“when seventy years are accomplished”