You who dwell on many waters, abundant in treasures, your end has come, the measure of your covetousness.
⛓ Read Jeremiah 51 forward — the whole chapter and its afterlife →Where this passage surfaces again, sorted by the strength of the link. Each kind of reuse — formal quotation, deliberate allusion, faint echo, figural pattern — carries its own mark. Follow any reference to read it in place.
Allusion2
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
Babylon apostrophized as 'you who dwell on many waters, abundant in treasures' — the unique source for the harlot 'who sits on many waters,' transposed from Babylon's literal Euphrates canals onto the symbolic seat of Rome. Hays: volume, recurrence (Babylon-oracle of Jer 50–51 anchors Rev 17–18), thematic coherence (judgment of Babylon). LXX Jer 28:13.
High confidenceBabylon 'who dwells on many waters' — the interpretive gloss 'the waters... are peoples, multitudes, nations, and languages' decodes the Jeremianic many-waters as the imperial multitude. Hays: recurrence (frames the unit with 17:1), distinctiveness. LXX Jer 28:13.
High confidence