They won’t take a cornerstone from you,
nor a stone for foundations;
but you will be desolate forever,” says the LORD.
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
Jeremiah 51:26 in context
Jeremiah 51:23–29
23
With you I will break in pieces
the shepherd and his flock.
With you I will break in pieces
the farmer and his yoke.
With you I will break in pieces
governors and deputies.
24
“I will give to Babylon and to all the inhabitants of Chaldea all their evil that they have done in Zion in your sight,” says the LORD.
25
“Behold, I am against you, destroying mountain,” says the LORD,
“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.
26
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They won’t take a cornerstone from you,
nor a stone for foundations;
but you will be desolate forever,” says the LORD.
27
“Set up a standard in the land!
Blow the trumpet among the nations!
Prepare the nations against her!
Call together against her the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz!
Appoint a marshal against her!
Cause the horses to come up as the swarming locusts!
28
Prepare against her the nations,
the kings of the Medes, its governors, and all its deputies, and all the land of their dominion!
29
The land trembles and is in pain;
for the purposes of the LORD against Babylon stand,
to make the land of Babylon a desolation, without inhabitant.
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