Jeremiah 51:43
41 How Sheshach has been captured! The praise of all the earth has been seized. What a horror Babylon has become among the nations!
42 The sea has come up over Babylon; she is covered in turbulent waves.
Her cities have become a desolation, a dry and arid land, a land where no one lives, where no son of man passes through.
44 I will punish Bel in Babylon. I will make him spew out what he swallowed. The nations will no longer stream to him; even the wall of Babylon will fall.
45 Come out of her, My people! Save your lives, each of you, from the fierce anger of the LORD.
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
- Her cities have become a desolation, a dry and arid land, a land where no one lives, where no son of man passes through.
- KJV
- 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.
- WEB
- Her cities have become a desolation, a dry land, and a desert, a land in which no man dwells. No son of man passes by it.
- ASV
- Her cities are become a desolation, a dry land, and a desert, a land wherein no man dwelleth, neither doth any son of man pass thereby.
- DARBY
- Her cities are become a desolation, a dry land, and a desert, a land wherein no one dwelleth, neither doth a son of man pass thereby.
- BLB
- Her cities have become as a desolation, a dry land and a desert, a land—none does dwell in them, any man, and no son of man passes through it.
- ÅB
- Dets byer er blitt til en ørken, et tørt land og en øde mark, et land som ingen mann bor i, og som intet menneskebarn drar igjennom.
- OTB
- «‘Se, Herren bringer over henne dem som reiser seg som nordavinden; Og de vil drive henne bort som stormen.
- B1930
- Dets byer er blitt til en ørken, et tørt land og en øde mark, et land som ingen mann bor i, og som intet menneskebarn drar igjennem.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Jeremiah 2:6
They did not ask, ‘Where is the LORD who brought us up from the land of Egypt, who led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and pits, a land of drought and darkness, a land where no one travels and no one lives?’
Read in contextIsaiah 13:20
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.
Read in contextJeremiah 51:29
The earth quakes and writhes because the LORD’s intentions against Babylon stand: to make the land of Babylon a desolation, without inhabitant.
Read in contextJeremiah 51:37
Babylon will become a heap of rubble, a haunt for jackals, an object of horror and scorn, without inhabitant.
Read in contextJeremiah 50:12
your mother will be greatly ashamed; she who bore you will be disgraced. Behold, she will be the least of the nations, a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert.
Read in contextEzekiel 29:10–11
therefore I am against you and against your rivers. I will turn the land of Egypt into a ruin, a desolate wasteland from Migdol to Syene, and as far as the border of Cush.
Read in contextJeremiah 50:39–40
So the desert creatures and hyenas will live there and ostriches will dwell there. It will never again be inhabited or lived in from generation to generation.
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