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Jer. 50:11 KJV (With Strong’s)

Because ye were glad, because ye rejoiced, O ye destroyers of mine heritage, because ye are grown μfat as the heifer at grass, and νbellow as bulls;

big, or, corpulent.

or, neigh as steeds.

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Bull; Bullock,

Grass,

Heifer

Cross References

ye were.

Prov. 17:5• ⁵Whoso mocketh a poor man reproacheth his Maker; he that is glad at calamity shall not be held innocent. (Prov. 17:5)

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Lam. 1:21• ²¹They have heard that I sigh: I have no comforter: all mine enemies have heard of my calamity; they are glad that thou hast done it. Thou wilt bring the day that thou hast called, and they shall be like unto me. (Lam. 1:21)

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Lam. 2:15‑16• ¹⁵All that pass by clap their hands at thee; they hiss and shake their head at the daughter of Jerusalem: Is this the city which they called, The perfection of beauty, The joy of the whole earth?
¹⁶All thine enemies open their mouth against thee, they hiss and gnash the teeth: they say, We have swallowed her up; this is forsooth the day that we looked for: we have found, we have seen it. (Lam. 2:15‑16)

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Lam. 4:21‑22• ²¹Rejoice and be glad, daughter of Edom, that dwellest in the land of Uz: the cup shall pass also unto thee; thou shalt be drunken, and make thyself naked.
²²The punishment of thine iniquity is accomplished, O daughter of Zion; he will no more carry thee away into captivity. He will visit thine iniquity, O daughter of Edom; he will discover thy sins. (Lam. 4:21‑22)

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Ezek. 25:3‑8,15‑17• ³and say unto the children of Ammon, Hear the word of the Lord Jehovah. Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Because thou saidst, Aha, against my sanctuary, when it was profaned; and against the land of Israel, when it was made desolate; and against the house of Judah, when they went into captivity:
⁴therefore behold, I will give thee to the children of the east for a possession, and they shall set their encampments in thee, and make their dwellings in thee; they shall eat thy fruits, and they shall drink thy milk.
⁵And I will make Rabbah a pasture for camels, and the children of Ammon a couching-place for flocks: and ye shall know that I am Jehovah.
⁶For thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Because thou hast clapped the hands, and stamped with the feet, and rejoiced with all the despite of thy soul against the land of Israel;
⁷therefore behold, I will stretch out my hand upon thee, and will give thee for a spoil to the nations; and I will cut thee off from the peoples, and I will cause thee to perish out of the countries: I will destroy thee, and thou shalt know that I am Jehovah.
⁸Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Because Moab and Seir do say, Behold, the house of Judah is like unto all the nations,
¹⁵Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Because the Philistines have dealt by revenge, and have taken vengeance with despite of soul, to destroy, from old hatred;
¹⁶therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I stretch out my hands upon the Philistines, and I will cut off the Kerethites, and cause the remnant of the sea-coast to perish.
¹⁷And I will execute great vengeance upon them with furious rebukes; and they shall know that I am Jehovah, when I shall lay my vengeance upon them. (Ezek. 25:3‑8,15‑17)

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Ezek. 26:2‑3• ²Son of man, because Tyre hath said against Jerusalem, Aha, she is broken, the gate of the peoples! she is turned unto me: I shall be replenished now she is laid waste;
³therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I am against thee, Tyre, and will cause many nations to come up against thee, as the sea causeth its waves to come up. (Ezek. 26:2‑3)

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Obad. 12• ¹²But thou shouldest not have looked on the day of thy brother in the day of his disaster; neither shouldest thou have rejoiced over the children of Judah in the day of their destruction; nor have opened wide thy mouth in the day of distress. (Obad. 12)

ye destroyers.

Jer. 50:17• ¹⁷Israel is a hunted sheep; the lions have driven him away: first the king of Assyria devoured him, and last this Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon hath broken his bones. (Jer. 50:17)

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Jer. 51:34‑35• ³⁴Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon hath devoured me, he hath crushed me, he hath made me an empty vessel; he hath swallowed me up like a dragon, he hath filled his belly with my delicates, he hath cast me out.
³⁵The violence done to me and to my flesh be upon Babylon, shall the inhabitress of Zion say; and, My blood be upon the inhabitants of Chaldea, shall Jerusalem say. (Jer. 51:34‑35)

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Psa. 74:2‑8• ²Remember thine assembly, which thou hast purchased of old, which thou hast redeemed to be the portion of thine inheritance, this mount Zion, wherein thou hast dwelt.
³Lift up thy steps unto the perpetual desolations: everything in the sanctuary hath the enemy destroyed.
⁴Thine adversaries roar in the midst of thy place of assembly; they set up their signs for signs.
⁵A man was known as he could lift up axes in the thicket of trees;
⁶And now they break down its carved work altogether, with hatchets and hammers.
⁷They have set on fire thy sanctuary, they have profaned the habitation of thy name to the ground.
⁸They said in their heart, Let us destroy them together: they have burned up all *God's places of assembly in the land. (Psa. 74:2‑8)

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Psa. 79:1‑4• ¹A Psalm of Asaph. O God, the nations are come into thine inheritance: thy holy temple have they defiled; they have laid Jerusalem in heaps.
²The dead bodies of thy servants have they given to be meat unto the fowl of the heavens, the flesh of thy saints unto the beasts of the earth:
³Their blood have they shed like water round about Jerusalem, and there was none to bury them.
⁴We are become a reproach to our neighbours, a mockery and a derision to them that are round about us. (Psa. 79:1‑4)

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Psa. 83:1‑5• ¹A Song; a Psalm of Asaph. O God, keep not silence; hold not thy peace, and be not still, O *God:
²For behold, thine enemies make a tumult; and they that hate thee lift up the head.
³They take crafty counsel against thy people, and consult against thy hidden ones:
⁴They say, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation, and let the name of Israel be mentioned no more.
⁵For they have consulted together with one heart: they have made an alliance together against thee. (Psa. 83:1‑5)

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Isa. 10:6‑7• ⁶I will send him against a hypocritical nation, and against the people of my wrath will I give him a charge; to take the spoil, and to seize the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.
⁷But he meaneth not so, neither doth his heart think so; for it is in his heart to extirpate and cut off nations not a few. (Isa. 10:6‑7)

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Isa. 47:6• ⁶I was wroth with my people, I polluted mine inheritance, and gave them into thy hand: thou didst shew them no mercy; upon the aged didst thou very heavily lay thy yoke; (Isa. 47:6)

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Zech. 2:8‑9• ⁸For thus saith Jehovah of hosts: After the glory, hath he sent me unto the nations that made you a spoil; for he that toucheth you toucheth the apple of his eye.
⁹For behold, I will shake my hand upon them, and they shall become a spoil to those that served them: and ye shall know that Jehovah of hosts hath sent me. (Zech. 2:8‑9)

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Zech. 14:1‑3,12• ¹Behold, the day cometh for Jehovah, and thy spoil shall be divided in the midst of thee.
²And I will assemble all the nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished; and half of the city shall go forth into captivity; and the rest of the people shall not be cut off from the city.
³And Jehovah will go forth and fight with those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle.
¹²And this shall be the plague wherewith Jehovah will smite all the peoples that have warred against Jerusalem: their flesh shall consume away while they stand upon their feet, and their eyes shall consume away in their holes, and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth. (Zech. 14:1‑3,12)

ye are.

Jer. 50:27• ²⁷Slay all her bullocks; let them go down to the slaughter: woe unto them! for their day is come, the time of their visitation. (Jer. 50:27)

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Jer. 46:21• ²¹Also her hired men in the midst of her are like fatted bullocks; for they also have turned back, they have fled away together, they did not stand; for the day of their calamity is come upon them, the time of their visitation. (Jer. 46:21)

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Deut. 32:15• ¹⁵Then Jeshurun grew fat, and kicked--Thou art waxen fat, Thou art grown thick, And thou art covered with fatness;--He gave up +God who made him, And lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation. (Deut. 32:15)

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Psa. 22:12• ¹²Many bulls have encompassed me; Bashan's strong ones have beset me round. (Psa. 22:12)

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Hos. 10:11• ¹¹And Ephraim is a trained heifer, that loveth to tread out the corn; I have passed over upon her fair neck: I will make Ephraim to draw; Judah shall plough, Jacob shall break his clods. (Hos. 10:11)

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Amos 4:1• ¹Hear this word, ye kine of Bashan, that are in the mountain of Samaria, that oppress the poor, that crush the needy, that say to their lords, Bring, and let us drink: (Amos 4:1)

fat.

Heb. big.

or, corpulent.

Jer. 5:28• ²⁸They are become fat, they shine, yea, they surpass in deeds of wickedness; they judge not the cause, the cause of the fatherless, and they prosper; and the right of the needy do they not adjudge. (Jer. 5:28)

bellow as bulls.

or, neigh as steeds.

Jer. 5:8• ⁸As well fed horses, they roam about, every one neigheth after his neighbour's wife. (Jer. 5:8)

J. N. Darby Translation

For ye rejoiced, for ye triumphed, ye plunderers of my heritage; for ye have been wanton as the heifer at grasse, and neighed as steeds.

JND Translation Notes

Or "that treadeth out [the corn]."