Jeremiah 51:43

Jeremiah 51:43 in other versions

• King James Version (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.
• New International Version (NIV)Her towns will be desolate, a dry and desert land, a land where no one lives, through which no one travels.
• English Standard Version (ESV)Her cities have become a horror, a land of drought and a desert, a land in which no one dwells, and through which no son of man passes.
• New King James Version (NKJV)Her cities are a desolation, A dry land and a wilderness, A land where no one dwells, Through which no son of man passes.

Context of Jeremiah 51:43

41“How Sheshak (Babylon) has been captured, And the praise of the whole earth been seized! How Babylon has become an astonishing desolation and an object of horror among the nations! 42The sea has come up over Babylon; She has been engulfed with its tumultuous waves. Her cities have become an astonishing desolation and an object of horror, A parched land and a desert, A land in which no one lives, And through which no son of man passes. 44I will punish and judge Bel [the handmade god] in Babylon And take out of his mouth what he has swallowed up [the stolen sacred articles and the captives of Judah and elsewhere]. The nations will no longer flow to him. Yes, the wall of Babylon has fallen down! 45“Come out of her midst, My people, And each of you [escape and] save yourself From the fierce anger of the Lord.

Jeremiah 51:43 word by word

הָי֤וּ עָרֶ֙יהָ֙ לְשַׁמָּ֔ה אֶ֖רֶץ צִיָּ֣ה וַעֲרָבָ֑ה אֶ֗רֶץ לֹֽא־יֵשֵׁ֤ב בָּהֵן֙ כָּל־אִ֔ישׁ וְלֹֽא־יַעֲבֹ֥ר בָּהֵ֖ן בֶּן־אָדָֽם׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• Her citiesעִיר‛îyr ‛âr ‛âyar · cityH5892
• are a desolationשַׁמָּהshammâh · horror: appalledH8047
• a dryצִיָּהtsîyâh · drynessH6723
• landאֶ֫רֶץ'erets · land: country/planetH776
• and a wildernessעֲרָבָה‛ărâbâh · plainH6160
• wherein no manאִישׁ'îysh · manH376
• dwellethיָשַׁבyâshab · to dwellH3427
• sonבֵּןbên · son: childH1121
• of manאָדָם'âdâm · manH120
• passעָבַר‛âbar · to passH5674
• therebyהֵןhên · they(fem.)H2004

Cross-references for Jeremiah 51:43

• Jeremiah 51:29The land trembles and writhes [in pain and sorrow], For the purposes of the Lord against Babylon stand, To make the land of Babylon A desolation without inhabitants.
• Jeremiah 50:39“Therefore wild beasts of the desert will live there [in Babylon] with the jackals; The ostriches also will live there, And it will never again be inhabited [with people] Or lived in from generation to generation.
• Jeremiah 2:6They did not say, ‘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 of pits, Through a land of drought and of the deep darkness [of the shadow of death], Through a land that no man passed through And where no man lived?’
• Isaiah 13:20Babylon will never be inhabited or lived in from generation to generation; Nor will the Arab pitch his tent there, Nor will the shepherds let their sheep lie down there.
• Ezekiel 29:10behold (hear this), therefore, I am against you and against your rivers (the Nile, its tributaries), and I will make the land of Egypt a complete waste and a desolation, from [northern] Migdol to [southern] Syene, even as far as the border of Ethiopia (Cush).

Commentaries on Jeremiah 51:43

• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 43A wilderness - Or, a desert of sand. A land wherein - Rather, “a land - no man shall dwell in them (i. e., its cities), and no human being shall pass through them.”Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 4343. Her cities--the cities, her dependencies. So, "Jerusalem and the cities thereof" (Jr 34:1). Or, the "cities" are the inner and outer cities, the two parts into which Babylon was divided by the Euphrates [Grotius].Read the comment

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Commentaries on Jeremiah 51

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings