mother

Jeremiah 49:2
Therefore, behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will sound the battle cry against Rabbah of the Ammonites. It will become a heap of ruins, and its villages will be burned. Then Israel will drive out their dispossessors, says the LORD.

Galatians 4:26
But the Jerusalem above is free, and she is our mother.

Revelation 17:5
On her forehead a mysterious name was written: Babylon the Great, the mother of prostitutes and of the abominations of the earth.

the hindermost

Jeremiah 25:26
all the kings of the north, both near and far, one after another--all the kingdoms on the face of the earth. And after all of them, the king of Sheshach will drink it too.

Isaiah 23:13
Look at the land of the Chaldeans--a people now of no account. The Assyrians destined it for the desert creatures; they set up their siege towers and stripped its palaces. They brought it to ruin.

a wilderness

Jeremiah 50:35-40
A sword is against the Chaldeans, declares the LORD, against those who live in Babylon, and against her officials and wise men. . . .

Jeremiah 25:12
But when seventy years are complete, I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation, the land of the Chaldeans, for their guilt, declares the LORD, and I will make it an everlasting desolation.

Jeremiah 51:25, 26, 43, 62-64
"Behold, I am against you, O destroying mountain, you who devastate the whole earth, declares the LORD. I will stretch out My hand against you; I will roll you over the cliffs, and turn you into a charred mountain. . . .

Isaiah 13:20-22
She will never be inhabited or settled from generation to generation; no nomad will pitch his tent there, no shepherd will rest his flock there. . . .

Isaiah 14:22
"I will rise up against them, " declares the LORD of Hosts. "I will cut off from Babylon her name and her remnant, her offspring and her posterity, " declares the LORD.

Revelation 18:21-23
Then a mighty angel picked up a stone the size of a great millstone and cast it into the sea, saying: "With such violence the great city of Babylon will be cast down, never to be seen again. . . .