“The word that the Lord spoke against Babylon and against the land of the Chaldeans by Jeremiah the prophet… For out of the north a nation comes up against her, Which shall make her land desolate, And no one shall dwell therein…” (Jeremiah 50:1-3 NKJV)

Seventy years later this prophecy was fulfilled as Cyrus came from the North and destroyed Babylon. The latter part of the prophecy, that no one would live there again, is still true over 2,400 years later. The Hanging Gardens of Babylon were considered one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, but now there is only desert in its place. It is said that Saddam Hussein planned to rebuild Babylon anew in his modern Iraq, yet the sand still blows over the supposed site. God’s Word continues to stand, but Babylon has fallen never to rise again.