Jeremiah 51:37

Jeremiah 51:37 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)And Babylon shall become heaps, a dwellingplace for dragons, an astonishment, and an hissing, without an inhabitant.
• New International Version (NIV)Babylon will be a heap of ruins, a haunt of jackals, an object of horror and scorn, a place where no one lives.
• English Standard Version (ESV)and Babylon shall become a heap of ruins, the haunt of jackals, a horror and a hissing, without inhabitant.
• New King James Version (NKJV)Babylon shall become a heap, A dwelling place for jackals, An astonishment and a hissing, Without an inhabitant.

Context of Jeremiah 51:37

35May the violence done to me and to my flesh be upon Babylon,” says the dweller of Zion. “May my blood be on the dwellers of Chaldea,” says Jerusalem. 36Therefore this is what the LORD says: “Behold, I will plead your case and take vengeance on your behalf; I will dry up her sea and make her springs run dry. Babylon will become a heap of rubble, a haunt for jackals, an object of horror and scorn, without inhabitant. 38They will roar together like young lions; they will growl like lion cubs. 39While they are flushed with heat, I will serve them a feast, and I will make them drunk so that they may revel; then they will fall asleep forever and never wake up, declares the LORD.

Jeremiah 51:37 word by word

וְהָיְתָה֩ בָבֶ֨ל׀ לְגַלִּ֧ים׀ מְעוֹן־תַּנִּ֛ים שַׁמָּ֥ה וּשְׁרֵקָ֖ה מֵאֵ֥ין יוֹשֵֽׁב׃Read the interlinear

• Babylonבָּבֶ֫ל, בָּבֶלbâbel · BabylonH894
• will becomeהָיָהhâyâh · to beH1961
• a heap of rubbleגַּלgal · heapH1530
• a hauntמָעוֹןmâ‛ôn mâ‛îyn · habitationH4583
• for jackalsתַּןtannîyn tannîym · jackalH8577
• an object of horrorשַׁמָּהshammâh · horror: appalledH8047
• and scornשְׁרֵקָהsherêqâh · hissingH8322
• withoutאַ֫יִן'ayin · nothingH369
• inhabitantיָשַׁבyâshab · to dwellH3427

Cross-references for Jeremiah 51:37

• Jeremiah 51:25“Behold, I am against you, O destroying mountain, you who devastate the whole earth, declares the LORD. I will stretch out My hand against you; I will roll you over the cliffs and turn you into a charred mountain.
• Jeremiah 25:9behold, I will summon all the families of the north, declares the LORD, and I will send for My servant Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, whom I will bring against this land, against its residents, and against all the surrounding nations. So I will devote them to destruction and make them an object of horror and contempt, an everlasting desolation.
• Jeremiah 50:12your 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.
• Isaiah 13:19And Babylon, the jewel of the kingdoms, the glory of the pride of the Chaldeans, will be overthrown by God like Sodom and Gomorrah.
• Isaiah 14:23“I will make her a place for owls and for swamplands; I will sweep her away with the broom of destruction,” declares the LORD of Hosts.
• Isaiah 34:8For the LORD has a day of vengeance, a year of recompense for the cause of Zion.
• Revelation 18:2And he cried out in a mighty voice: “Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great! She has become a lair for demons and a haunt for every unclean spirit, every unclean bird, and every detestable beast.
• Jeremiah 18:16They have made their land a desolation, a perpetual object of scorn; all who pass by will be appalled and shake their heads.
• Jeremiah 19:8I will make this city a desolation and an object of scorn. All who pass by will be appalled and will scoff at all her wounds.
• Jeremiah 29:18I will pursue them with sword and famine and plague. I will make them a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth—a curse, a desolation, and an object of scorn and reproach among all the nations to which I banish them.
• 2 Chronicles 29:8Therefore, the wrath of the LORD has fallen upon Judah and Jerusalem, and He has made them an object of terror, horror, and scorn, as you can see with your own eyes.
• Lamentations 2:15All who pass by clap their hands at you in scorn. They hiss and shake their heads at the Daughter of Jerusalem: “Is this the city that was called the perfection of beauty, the joy of all the earth?”
• Micah 6:16You have kept the statutes of Omri and all the practices of Ahab’s house; you have followed their counsel. Therefore I will make you a desolation, and your inhabitants an object of contempt; you will bear the scorn of the nations.”
• Zephaniah 2:15This carefree city that dwells securely, that thinks to herself: “I am it, and there is none besides me,” what a ruin she has become, a resting place for beasts. Everyone who passes by her hisses and shakes his fist.

Commentaries on Jeremiah 51:37

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 37Without an inhabitant - See Jeremiah 50:39.Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 37Heaps - Of rubbish, formed in this case by the decay of the unburned bricks of which Babylon was built. It is these heaps which have yielded such a large wealth of historical documents in our own days. Dragons - Jackals Jeremiah 10:22.Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 37The looting and damage to the city's structures would make visitors feel contempt instead of awe.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 3737. (Jr 50:26, 39; Re 18:2).Read the comment

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• Ezekiel
• Gazing-Stock
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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