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Jeremiah 51:37

Babylon
Judgment

35 The violence done to me and to my flesh be upon Babylon, shall the inhabitant of Zion say; and my blood upon the inhabitants of Chaldea, shall Jerusalem say.

36 Therefore thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will plead thy cause, and take vengeance for thee; and I will dry up her sea, and make her springs dry.

And Babylon shall become heaps, a dwellingplace for dragons, an astonishment, and an hissing, without an inhabitant.

38 They shall roar together like lions: they shall yell as lions’ whelps.

39 In their heat I will make their feasts, and I will make them drunken, that they may rejoice, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith the LORD.

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This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB
Babylon will become a heap of rubble, a haunt for jackals, an object of horror and scorn, without inhabitant.
KJV
And Babylon shall become heaps, a dwellingplace for dragons, an astonishment, and an hissing, without an inhabitant.
WEB
Babylon will become heaps, a dwelling place for jackals, an astonishment, and a hissing, without inhabitant.
ASV
And Babylon shall become heaps, a dwelling-place for jackals, an astonishment, and a hissing, without inhabitant.
DARBY
And Babylon shall become heaps, a dwelling-place of jackals, an astonishment, and a hissing, without inhabitant.
BLB
Babylon will become as heaps, an abode for jackals, a horror and a hissing, without one dwelling.
ÅB
Og Babel skal bli til grusdynger, en bolig for sjakaler, til en forferdelse og til spott, så ingen bor der.
OTB
«‘De vil ta opp et rop mot deg, Som en som løfter opp et truende kamprop på fjellene; Fordi Herren har tatt deg Og plaget deg med lyden av din pil.
B1930
Og Babel skal bli til grusdynger, en bolig for sjakaler, til en forferdelse og til spott, så ingen bor der.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

  • Revelation 18:2

    And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird.

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  • Jeremiah 18:16

    To make their land desolate, and a perpetual hissing; every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished, and wag his head.

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  • Jeremiah 25:9

    Behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, saith the LORD, and Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will bring them against this land, and against the inhabitants thereof, and against all these nations round about, and will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, and an hissing, and perpetual desolations.

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  • Revelation 18:21–23

    And a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone, and cast it into the sea, saying, Thus with violence shall that great city Babylon be thrown down, and shall be found no more at all.

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  • Jeremiah 51:25–26

    Behold, I am against thee, O destroying mountain, saith the LORD, which destroyest all the earth: and I will stretch out mine hand upon thee, and roll thee down from the rocks, and will make thee a burnt mountain.

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  • Isaiah 13:19–22

    And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldees’ excellency, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.

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  • Jeremiah 50:23–26

    How is the hammer of the whole earth cut asunder and broken! how is Babylon become a desolation among the nations!

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  • Jeremiah 19:8

    And I will make this city desolate, and an hissing; every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished and hiss because of all the plagues thereof.

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