Jeremiah 51:58

Thus saith the Lord of hosts; The broad walls of Babylon shall be utterly broken, and her high gates shall be burned with fire; and the people shall labour in vain, and the folk in the fire, and they shall be weary.

Cross-reference

Jeremiah 51:9 declares Babylon's incurable judgment, reinforcing the futility of labor and destruction here.

Jeremiah 51:30 mentions her dwellings on fire and bars broken—echoing the burning gates and leveled walls here.

Jeremiah 51:44 also declares Babylon's wall has fallen—a direct parallel within the same judgment oracle.

Jeremiah 51:64 concludes with Babylon sinking forever, echoing the exhaustive labor and final ruin here.

In Jeremiah 51:53, the same judgment theme: even if Babylon scales heaven, destroyers will come — reinforcing the certainty of destruction described here.

Jeremiah 50:15 similarly describes Babylon's walls thrown down—part of the same broader judgment against Babylon.

Isaiah 45:1 Prophetic fulfillment

Isaiah 45:2 prophesies Cyrus breaking Babylon's bronze gates—fulfilling the same destruction described here.

Isaiah 45:2 Parallel

Isaiah 45:2 similarly describes God leveling Babylon's gates, affirming divine sovereignty over Babylon's fall.

Isaiah 65:23 promises labor not in vain for the blessed, contrasting the vain labor of Babylon here.

Habakkuk 2:13 uses identical wording—peoples labor for fire—affirming God's judgment on Babylon's vain toil.

Revelation 18:8 applies this same judgment imagery to the end-times Babylon, seeing Jeremiah's prophecy as a type of final divine retribution.

Isaiah 25:12 describes God leveling high walls to dust, mirroring Babylon's broad wall leveled here.

Job 12:14 Parallel

Job 12:14 says when God tears down no one rebuilds, applied to Babylon's irreversible destruction here.

Psalm 127:1 Parallel

Psalm 127:1 teaches labor in vain without God, paralleling the futile toil of Babylon's builders here.