Affirmation Ascend Babylon Declares Destroyers Fenceth Fortifies Fortify Heaven Heavens Height Hight Lifted Lofty Mount Places Reaches Says Shut Sky Spoilers Strength Strong Stronghold Though Walls Waste Yet
51:53 Though Babylon should mount up to {g} heaven, and though she should fortify the height of her strength, [yet] from me shall spoilers come to her, saith the LORD.
(g) For the walls were two hundred feet high.
51:1-58 The particulars of this prophecy are dispersed and interwoven, and the same things left and returned to again. Babylon is abundant in treasures, yet neither her waters nor her wealth shall secure her. Destruction comes when they did not think of it. Wherever we are, in the greatest depths, at the greatest distances, we are to remember the Lord our God; and in the times of the greatest fears and hopes, it is most needful to remember the Lord. The feeling excited by Babylon's fall is the same with the New Testament Babylon, Re 18:9,19. The ruin of all who support idolatry, infidelity, and superstition, is needful for the revival of true godliness; and the threatening prophecies of Scripture yield comfort in this view. The great seat of antichristian tyranny, idolatry, and superstition, the persecutor of true Christians, is as certainly doomed to destruction as ancient Babylon. Then will vast multitudes mourn for sin, and seek the Lord. Then will the lost sheep of the house of Israel be brought back to the fold of the good Shepherd, and stray no more. And the exact fulfilment of these ancient prophecies encourages us to faith in all the promises and prophecies of the sacred Scriptures.
Ascend Babylon Declares Destroyers Fortify Heaven Heavens Height High Hight Lofty Mount Places Shut Sky Spoilers Strength Strong Stronghold Walls Waste
Ascend Babylon Declares Destroyers Fortify Heaven Heavens Height High Hight Lofty Mount Places Shut Sky Spoilers Strength Strong Stronghold Walls Waste
