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Jeremiah 51:43

Judgment

41 How is Sheshach taken! and how is the praise of the whole earth surprised! how is Babylon become an astonishment among the nations!

42 The sea is come up upon Babylon: she is covered with the multitude of the waves thereof.

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.

45 My people, go ye out of the midst of her, and deliver ye every man his soul from the fierce anger of 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
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)

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Cross references

  • Jeremiah 2:6

    Neither said they, Where is the LORD that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, that led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and of pits, through a land of drought, and of the shadow of death, through a land that no man passed through, and where no man dwelt?

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  • Isaiah 13:20

    It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation: neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there; neither shall the shepherds make their fold there.

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  • Jeremiah 51:29

    And the land shall tremble and sorrow: for every purpose of the LORD shall be performed against Babylon, to make the land of Babylon a desolation without an inhabitant.

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  • Jeremiah 51:37

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

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  • Jeremiah 50:12

    Your mother shall be sore confounded; she that bare you shall be ashamed: behold, the hindermost of the nations shall be a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert.

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  • Ezekiel 29:10–11

    Behold, therefore I am against thee, and against thy rivers, and I will make the land of Egypt utterly waste and desolate, from the tower of Syene even unto the border of Ethiopia.

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  • Jeremiah 50:39–40

    Therefore the wild beasts of the desert with the wild beasts of the islands shall dwell there, and the owls shall dwell therein: and it shall be no more inhabited for ever; neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation.

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