Jeremiah 51:42
40 I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with he goats.
41 How is Sheshach taken! and how is the praise of the whole earth surprised! how is Babylon become an astonishment among the nations!
The sea is come up upon Babylon: she is covered with the multitude of the waves thereof.
43 Her cities are a desolation, a dry land, and a wilderness, a land wherein no man dwelleth, neither doth any son of man pass thereby.
44 And I will punish Bel in Babylon, and I will bring forth out of his mouth that which he hath swallowed up: and the nations shall not flow together any more unto him: yea, the wall of Babylon shall fall.
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.
Compare
- BSB
- The sea has come up over Babylon; she is covered in turbulent waves.
- KJV
- The sea is come up upon Babylon: she is covered with the multitude of the waves thereof.
- WEB
- The sea has come up on Babylon. She is covered with the multitude of its waves.
- ASV
- The sea is come up upon Babylon; she is covered with the multitude of the waves thereof.
- DARBY
- The sea is come up upon Babylon: she is covered with the multitude of its waves.
- BLB
- The sea has come up over Babylon; with the multitude of its waves she is covered.
- ÅB
- Havet er steget opp over Babel, det er skjult av dets brusende bølger.
- OTB
- «‘Sett dere i rekke mot Babylon på alle sider, Alle som bøyer buen, skyt mot henne; Spare ikke pilene deres! For hun har syndet mot Herren.
- B1930
- Havet er steget op over Babel, det er skjult av dets brusende bølger.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Isaiah 8:7–8
Now therefore, behold, the Lord bringeth up upon them the waters of the river, strong and many, even the king of Assyria, and all his glory: and he shall come up over all his channels, and go over all his banks:
Read in contextDaniel 9:26
And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.
Read in contextPsalms 65:7
Which stilleth the noise of the seas, the noise of their waves, and the tumult of the people.
Read in contextRevelation 17:15–16
And he saith unto me, The waters which thou sawest, where the whore sitteth, are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues.
Read in contextEzekiel 27:26–34
Thy rowers have brought thee into great waters: the east wind hath broken thee in the midst of the seas.
Read in contextJeremiah 51:55
Because the LORD hath spoiled Babylon, and destroyed out of her the great voice; when her waves do roar like great waters, a noise of their voice is uttered:
Read in contextPsalms 18:16
He sent from above, he took me, he drew me out of many waters.
Read in contextLuke 21:25
And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring;
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