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Jer 50:11 — Because ye were glad, because ye rejoiced, O ye destroyers of mine heritage, because ye are grown fat as the heifer at grass, and bellow as bulls;

Phrase of Scripture		Correlating Passages

ye were		Pro 17:5; Lam 1:21; Lam 2:15,16; Lam 4:21,22; Eze 25:3-8,15-17; Eze 26:2,3; Oba 1:12
ye destroyers		Jer 50:17; Jer 51:34,35; Psa 74:2-8; Psa 79:1-4; Psa 83:1-5; Isa 10:6,7; Isa 47:6; Zec 2:8,9; Zec 14:1-3,12
ye are		Jer 50:27; Jer 46:21; Deu 32:15; Psa 22:12; Hsa 10:11; Amo 4:1
fat		Heb. big. or, corpulent. Jer 5:28
bellow as bulls		or, neigh as steeds. Jer 5:8

Correlating Passages

ye were

	Pro 17:5	Whoso mocketh the poor reproacheth his Maker: [and] he that is glad at calamities shall not be unpunished.
	Lam 1:21	They have heard that I sigh: [there is] none to comfort me: all mine enemies have heard of my trouble; 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 2:15	All that pass by clap [their] hands at thee; they hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem, [saying, Is] this the city that [men] call The perfection of beauty, The joy of the whole earth?
	Lam 2:16	All thine enemies have opened their mouth against thee: they hiss and gnash the teeth: they say, We have swallowed [her] up: certainly this [is] the day that we looked for; we have found, we have seen [it].
	Lam 4:21	Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Edom, that dwellest in the land of Uz; the cup also shall pass through unto thee: thou shalt be drunken, and shalt make thyself naked.
	Lam 4:22	The 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.
	Eze 25:3	And say unto the Ammonites, Hear the word of the Lord GOD; Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou saidst, Aha, against my sanctuary, when it was profaned; and against the land of Israel, when it was desolate; and against the house of Judah, when they went into captivity;
	Eze 25:4	Behold, therefore I will deliver thee to the men of the east for a possession, and they shall set their palaces in thee, and make their dwellings in thee: they shall eat thy fruit, and they shall drink thy milk.
	Eze 25:5	And I will make Rabbah a stable for camels, and the Ammonites a couchingplace for flocks: and ye shall know that I [am] the LORD.
	Eze 25:6	For thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou hast clapped [thine] hands, and stamped with the feet, and rejoiced in heart with all thy despite against the land of Israel;
	Eze 25:7	Behold, therefore I will stretch out mine hand upon thee, and will deliver thee for a spoil to the heathen; and I will cut thee off from the people, and I will cause thee to perish out of the countries: I will destroy thee; and thou shalt know that I [am] the LORD.
	Eze 25:8	Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because that Moab and Seir do say, Behold, the house of Judah [is] like unto all the heathen;
	Eze 25:15	Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because the Philistines have dealt by revenge, and have taken vengeance with a despiteful heart, to destroy [it] for the old hatred;
	Eze 25:16	Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will stretch out mine hand upon the Philistines, and I will cut off the Cherethims, and destroy the remnant of the sea coast.
	Eze 25:17	And I will execute great vengeance upon them with furious rebukes; and they shall know that I [am] the LORD, when I shall lay my vengeance upon them.
	Eze 26:2	Son of man, because that Tyrus hath said against Jerusalem, Aha, she is broken [that was] the gates of the people: she is turned unto me: I shall be replenished, [now] she is laid waste:
	Eze 26:3	Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I [am] against thee, O Tyrus, and will cause many nations to come up against thee, as the sea causeth his waves to come up.
	Oba 1:12	But thou shouldest not have looked on the day of thy brother in the day that he became a stranger; neither shouldest thou have rejoiced over the children of Judah in the day of their destruction; neither shouldest thou have spoken proudly in the day of distress.

ye destroyers

	Jer 50:17	Israel [is] a scattered sheep; the lions have driven [him] away: first the king of Assyria hath devoured him; and last this Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon hath broken his bones.
	Jer 51:34	Nebuchadrezzar 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.
	Jer 51:35	The violence done to me and to my flesh [be] upon Babylon, shall the inhabitant of Zion say; and my blood upon the inhabitants of Chaldea, shall Jerusalem say.
	Psa 74:2	Remember thy congregation, [which] thou hast purchased of old; the rod of thine inheritance, [which] thou hast redeemed; this mount Zion, wherein thou hast dwelt.
	Psa 74:3	Lift up thy feet unto the perpetual desolations; [even] all [that] the enemy hath done wickedly in the sanctuary.
	Psa 74:4	Thine enemies roar in the midst of thy congregations; they set up their ensigns [for] signs.
	Psa 74:5	[A man] was famous according as he had lifted up axes upon the thick trees.
	Psa 74:6	But now they break down the carved work thereof at once with axes and hammers.
	Psa 74:7	They have cast fire into thy sanctuary, they have defiled [by casting down] the dwelling place of thy name to the ground.
	Psa 74:8	They said in their hearts, Let us destroy them together: they have burned up all the synagogues of God in the land.
	Psa 79:1	[[A Psalm of Asaph.]] O God, the heathen are come into thine inheritance; thy holy temple have they defiled; they have laid Jerusalem on heaps.
	Psa 79:2	The dead bodies of thy servants have they given [to be] meat unto the fowls of the heaven, the flesh of thy saints unto the beasts of the earth.
	Psa 79:3	Their blood have they shed like water round about Jerusalem; and [there was] none to bury [them].
	Psa 79:4	We are become a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and derision to them that are round about us.
	Psa 83:1	[[A Song [or] Psalm of Asaph.]] Keep not thou silence, O God: hold not thy peace, and be not still, O God.
	Psa 83:2	For, lo, thine enemies make a tumult: and they that hate thee have lifted up the head.
	Psa 83:3	They have taken crafty counsel against thy people, and consulted against thy hidden ones.
	Psa 83:4	They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from [being] a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.
	Psa 83:5	For they have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee:
	Isa 10:6	I will send him against an hypocritical nation, and against the people of my wrath will I give him a charge, to take the spoil, and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.
	Isa 10:7	Howbeit he meaneth not so, neither doth his heart think so; but [it is] in his heart to destroy and cut off nations not a few.
	Isa 47:6	I was wroth with my people, I have polluted mine inheritance, and given them into thine hand: thou didst shew them no mercy; upon the ancient hast thou very heavily laid thy yoke.
	Zec 2:8	For thus saith the LORD of hosts; After the glory hath he sent me unto the nations which spoiled you: for he that toucheth you toucheth the apple of his eye.
	Zec 2:9	For, behold, I will shake mine hand upon them, and they shall be a spoil to their servants: and ye shall know that the LORD of hosts hath sent me.
	Zec 14:1	Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, and thy spoil shall be divided in the midst of thee.
	Zec 14:2	For I will gather all 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 residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city.
	Zec 14:3	Then shall the LORD go forth, and fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle.
	Zec 14:12	And this shall be the plague wherewith the LORD will smite all the people that have fought 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.

ye are

	Jer 50:27	Slay all her bullocks; let them go down to the slaughter: woe unto them! for their day is come, the time of their visitation.
	Jer 46:21	Also her hired men [are] in the midst of her like fatted bullocks; for they also are turned back, [and] are fled away together: they did not stand, because the day of their calamity was come upon them, [and] the time of their visitation.
	Deu 32:15	But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked: thou art waxen fat, thou art grown thick, thou art covered [with fatness]; then he forsook God [which] made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation.
	Psa 22:12	Many bulls have compassed me: strong [bulls] of Bashan have beset me round.
	Hsa 10:11	And Ephraim [is as] an heifer [that is] taught, [and] loveth to tread out [the corn]; but I passed over upon her fair neck: I will make Ephraim to ride; Judah shall plow, [and] Jacob shall break his clods.
	Amo 4:1	Hear this word, ye kine of Bashan, that [are] in the mountain of Samaria, which oppress the poor, which crush the needy, which say to their masters, Bring, and let us drink.

fat

Jer 5:28

They are waxen fat, they shine: yea, they overpass the deeds of the wicked: they judge not the cause, the cause of the fatherless, yet they prosper; and the right of the needy do they not judge.

bellow as bulls

Jer 5:8

They were [as] fed horses in the morning: every one neighed after his neighbour's wife.

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Scott, Thomas. "Jeremiah 50:11," The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Blue Letter Bible. 1836. 9 Jul 2004. .
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