Isa 13:19, 14:4, Jer 49:25, 50:23, Dan 2:38, 4:22, 30, 5:4-5, Rev 18:10-19 | ESV | STEP | And Babylon , the glory of kingdoms , the splendor and pomp of the Chaldeans , will be like Sodom and Gomorrah when God overthrew them.

Isaiah 13:19

19 And Babylon, ^athe glory of kingdoms,
the splendor and pomp of the Chaldeans,
will be ^blike Sodom and Gomorrah
when God overthrew them.

Isaiah 14:4

4 you will take up this ^ctaunt against the king of Babylon:

“How the oppressor has ceased,
^dthe insolent fury ^{▼▼Dead Sea Scroll (compare Septuagint, Syriac, Vulgate); the meaning of the word in the Masoretic Text is uncertain} ceased!

Jeremiah 49:25

25 How is ^fthe famous city not forsaken,
the city of my joy?

Jeremiah 50:23

23 ^gHow the hammer of the whole earth
is cut down and broken!
^hHow Babylon ⁱhas become
a horror among the nations!

Daniel 2:38

38 and into whose hand he has given, wherever they dwell, the children of man, ^jthe beasts of the field, and the birds of the heavens, making you rule over them all—you are ^kthe head of gold.

Daniel 4:22

22 ^lit is you, O king, who have grown and become strong. ^mYour greatness has grown and reaches to heaven, ⁿand your dominion to the ends of the earth.

Daniel 4:30

30 and the king answered and said, ^o“Is not this great Babylon, which I have built by ^pmy mighty power as a royal residence and for ^qthe glory of my majesty?”

Daniel 5:4-5

4 They drank wine and ^rpraised the ^sgods of gold and silver, bronze, iron, wood, and stone.

5 ^tImmediately ^uthe fingers of a human hand appeared and wrote on the plaster of the wall of the king’s palace, opposite the lampstand. And the king saw ^vthe hand as it wrote.

Revelation of John 18:10-19

10 ^wThey will stand far off, in fear of her torment, and say,

“Alas! Alas! ^xYou great city,
you mighty city, Babylon!
For ^yin a single hour your judgment has come.”
11 And ^zthe merchants of the earth weep and mourn for her, since no one buys their cargo anymore, 12 cargo of gold, silver, jewels, pearls, fine linen, purple cloth, silk, scarlet cloth, all kinds of scented wood, all kinds of articles of ivory, all kinds of articles of costly wood, bronze, iron and marble, 13 cinnamon, spice, incense, myrrh, frankincense, wine, oil, fine flour, wheat, cattle and sheep, horses and chariots, and slaves, that is, human souls. ^{▼▼Or and slaves, and human lives}

14 “The fruit for which your soul longed
has gone from you,
and all your delicacies and your splendors
are lost to you,
never to be found again!”
15 ^abThe merchants of these wares, who gained wealth from her, ^acwill stand far off, in fear of her torment, weeping and mourning aloud,

16 “Alas, alas, for the great city
^adthat was clothed in fine linen,
in purple and scarlet,
adorned with gold,
with jewels, and with pearls!
17 For ^aein a single hour all this wealth ^afhas been laid waste.”
And ^agall shipmasters and seafaring men, sailors and all whose trade is on the sea, stood far off 18 and ^ahcried out ^aias they saw the smoke of her burning,

^aj“What city was like the great city?”
19 And they threw ^akdust on their heads as they wept and mourned, crying out,

“Alas, alas, for the great city
^alwhere all who had ships at sea
grew rich by her wealth!
For ^amin a single hour she has been laid waste.