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Remember, O Lord, the children of Edom in the day of Jerusalem; who said, Rase it, rase it, even to the foundation thereof. 8. O daughter of Babylon, who art to be destroyed; happy shall he be, that rewardeth thee as thou hast served us. 9. Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones.
By the waters of Babylon There we sat down: yea, we wept. O daughter of Babylon, who art to be destroyed, Happy shall he be that taketh thy children And dasheth them against a stone, For with violence shall that great city Babylon be thrown down And shall be found no more at all. Babylon was a great city, Her merchandise was of gold and silver,
Ennigaldi-Nanna(Babylonian cuneiform: En-nígaldi-Nanna),[1]also known as Bel-Shalti-Nanna[a]and commonly called just Ennigaldi,[3][4]was a princess of the Neo-Babylonian Empireand high priestess (entu) of Ur. As the first entuin six centuries, serving as the "human wife" of the moon-god Sin, Ennigaldi held large religious and political power.
Zion (Hebrew: צִיּוֹן, romanized:Ṣīyyōn, [ a ] LXX Σιών) is a placename in the Tanakh, often used as a synonym for Jerusalem [ 3 ][ 4 ] as well as for the Land of Israel as a whole. The name is found in 2 Samuel (2 Sam 5:7), one of the books of the Tanakh dated to approximately the mid-6th century BCE. It originally referred to a ...
v. t. e. Babylon the Great, commonly known as the Whore of Babylon, refers to both a symbolic female figure and a place of evil as mentioned in the Book of Revelation of the New Testament. Her full title is stated in Revelation 17:5 as " Mystery, Babylon the Great, the Mother of Harlots and Abominations of the Earth " (Greek: μυστήριον ...
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 7 October 2024. This article is about the Babylonian prince. For other uses, see Belshazzar (disambiguation). Not to be confused with Belteshazzar, the Babylonian name of the prophet Daniel. Crown prince of Babylon Belshazzar Crown prince of Babylon The Nabonidus Chronicle, an ancient Babylonian text ...
Babalon / ˈbæbælən / [citation needed] (also known as the Scarlet Woman, Great Mother or Mother of Abominations) is a goddess found in the occult system of Thelema, which was established in 1904 with the writing of The Book of the Law by English author and occultist Aleister Crowley. The spelling of the name as "Babalon" was revealed to ...
According to John J. Collins, Belshazzar's feast is a legend conforming to the subgenre of the "tale of court contest", complicated by the inclusion of Daniel's indictment of Belshazzar's pride and his failure to honour the God of Israel. As a result, the tale has a double ending, in which Daniel is first showered with rewards and honours for ...