Christian Standard Bible
Jeremiah 51:42
42The sea has risen over Babylon; she is covered with its tumultuous waves.
Jeremiah 51:42 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)The sea is come up upon Babylon: she is covered with the multitude of the waves thereof.
- New International Version (NIV)The sea will rise over Babylon; its roaring waves will cover her.
- English Standard Version (ESV)The sea has come up on Babylon; she is covered with its tumultuous waves.
- New King James Version (NKJV)The sea has come up over Babylon; She is covered with the multitude of its waves.
Context of Jeremiah 51:42
40I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams together with male goats. 41How Sheshak has been captured, the praise of the whole earth seized. What a horror Babylon has become among the nations! The sea has risen over Babylon; she is covered with its tumultuous waves. 43Her cities have become a desolation, an arid desert, a land where no one lives, where no human being even passes through. 44I will punish Bel in Babylon. I will make him vomit what he swallowed. The nations will no longer stream to him; even Babylon’s wall will fall.
Read all of Jeremiah 51Jeremiah 51:42 word by word
עָלָ֥ה עַל־בָּבֶ֖ל הַיָּ֑ם בַּהֲמ֥וֹן גַּלָּ֖יו נִכְסָֽתָה׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Jeremiah 51:42
- Psalms 18:4The ropes of death were wrapped around me; the torrents of destruction terrified me.
- Psalms 42:7Deep calls to deep in the roar of your waterfalls; all your breakers and your billows have swept over me.
- Psalms 65:7You silence the roar of the seas, the roar of their waves, and the tumult of the nations.
- Psalms 93:3The floods have lifted up, Lord, the floods have lifted up their voice; the floods lift up their pounding waves.
- Isaiah 8:7the Lord will certainly bring against them the mighty rushing water of the Euphrates River — the king of Assyria and all his glory. It will overflow its channels and spill over all its banks.
- Ezekiel 27:26Your rowers have brought you onto the high seas, but the east wind has wrecked you in the heart of the sea.
- Daniel 9:26After those sixty-two weeks the Anointed One will be cut off and will have nothing. The people of the coming ruler will destroy the city and the sanctuary. The end will come with a flood, and until the end there will be war; desolations are decreed.
- Luke 21:25“Then there will be signs in the sun, moon, and stars; and there will be anguish on the earth among nations bewildered by the roaring of the sea and the waves.
- Revelation 17:15He also said to me, “The waters you saw, where the prostitute was seated, are peoples, multitudes, nations, and languages.
Commentaries on Jeremiah 51:42
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 42The sea is come up - A multitude of foes have inundated the city.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 42By a grand metaphor the invading army is compared to the sea.Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 42The sea represents the armies that attacked Babylon. The crashing waves symbolize the assault on the city.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 4242. The sea--the host of Median invaders. The image (compare Jr 47:2; Is 8:7, 8) is appropriately taken from the Euphrates, which, overflowing in spring, is like a "sea" near Babylon (Jr 51:13, 32, 36).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
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