Babylon a proud servant of God

Yahweh raised Babylon up to execute judgment on the apostate Israel and the nations:

Jeremiah 27:6, cf. 25:9

Now I have given all these lands into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, My servant, and I have given him also the wild animals of the field to serve him.

Habakkuk 1:6-11

Behold, I am raising up the Chaldeans,

That fierce and impetuous people,

They sweep across the earth,

To seize homes not theirs¹.

They are frightening and terrifying;

They decide for themselves what is right.

Their horses are swifter than leopards

And more fierce than evening wolves².

Their horses come galloping,

Their horsemen come flying from afar,

Like vultures rushing toward prey.

They all come for violence.

All their faces are determined, pressing forward,

And they amass captives like sand.

They mock kings and make princes an object of scorn.

They laugh at every fortress and build up ramps to seize it.

Then they sweep by like the wind and transgress.

Surely they will be held guilty!

Such great might of theirs has become their god!

Babylon is guilty:

Habakkuk 1:11b

Surely they will be held guilty!

Such great might of theirs has become their god!

Isaiah 47:6

I was angry at My people,

I defiled My heritage,

I put them into your hands.

But you showed them no mercy.

Even on the elderly you laid an exceedingly heavy yoke

Yahweh raised up a war-club (the kings of the Medes) against Babylon:

Jeremiah 51:20

You³ are My war-club, My weapon of war;

With you I shatter nations,

With you I destroy kingdoms.

Jeremiah 51:24-26

"But I will repay Babylon and all the inhabitants of Chaldea for all their evil that they have done in Zion before your eyes,” declares Yahweh.

“Behold, I am against you, O mountain of the destroyer,

Who destroys the whole earth,” declares Yahweh,

“And I will stretch out My hand against you,

And roll you down from the crags,

And I will make you a burnt out mountain.

They will not take from you even a cornerstone

Nor a foundation stone,

But you will be desolate forever,” declares Yahweh.

Jeremiah 50:23-24

How the hammer of the whole earth has been hacked into pieces!

How Babylon has become an object of horror among the nations!

I have set a snare for you, O Babylon!

And you are caught before you know it.

You are found and seized,

Because you war against Yahweh.

Notes:

¹ To seize homes not theirs. The same land looting and genocide crimes committed by the 7 heads of the end-time trinity beast, the Spanish Empire, the Portuguese Empire, the British empire, the French Empire, the German Empire, the Russian Empire, the Empire of Japan, and the American empire.

See Rev 13:1-2, and this video.

² evening wolves. Wolves are nocturnal predators. In winter, a pack will start hunting early evening throughout the night, traveling tens of kilometers; Hunting for large prey sometimes occurs during the day. In summer, wolves tend to hunt individually by ambushing their prey and rarely giving pursuit.

³ You = the kings of Media, cf. Jer 5:11, Isa 45:1-7.

Jeremiah 51:11

Sharpen the arrows, fill the quivers!

Yahweh has roused the spirit of the kings of Media,

Because His plan against Babylon is to destroy her.

This is the vengeance of Yahweh, vengeance for His Temple.

Isaiah 45:1-2

Thus says Yahweh to Cyrus His anointed,

Whose right hand He has grasped,

To tread down nations before him and disarm kings,

To open doors before him and no gates may stay shut:

I will go before you and level the high places ;

I will shatter the doors of bronze and cut down iron bars.

Yahweh's war-club Cyrus the Great