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Jeremiah 51:42
42The sea is come up upon Babylon: she is covered with the multitude of its 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 with he-goats. 41How is Sheshach taken! and how is the praise of the whole earth seized! How is Babylon become an astonishment among the nations! The sea is come up upon Babylon: she is covered with the multitude of its waves. 43Her 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. 44And I will punish Bel in Babylon, and I will bring forth out of his mouth what he hath swallowed up; and the nations shall not flow together any more unto him: yea, the wall of Babylon is fallen.
Read all of Jeremiah 51Jeremiah 51:42 word by word
עָלָ֥ה עַל־בָּבֶ֖ל הַיָּ֑ם בַּהֲמ֥וֹן גַּלָּ֖יו נִכְסָֽתָה׃Read the interlinear
Cross-references for Jeremiah 51:42
- Psalms 18:4The bands of death encompassed me, and torrents of Belial made me afraid.
- Psalms 42:7Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy cataracts; all thy breakers and thy billows are gone over me.
- Psalms 65:7Who stilleth the raging of the seas, the raging of their waves, and the tumult of the peoples.
- Psalms 93:3The floods lifted up, O Jehovah, the floods lifted up their voice; the floods lifted up their roaring waves.
- Isaiah 8:7therefore behold, the Lord will bring up upon them the waters of the river, strong and many, the king of Assyria and all his glory; and he shall mount up over all his channels, and go over all his banks:
- Ezekiel 27:26Thy rowers have brought thee into great waters; the east wind hath broken thee in the heart of the seas.
- Daniel 9:26And after the sixty-two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, and shall have nothing; and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with an overflow, and unto the end, war, — the desolations determined.
- Luke 21:25And there shall be signs in sun and moon and stars, and upon the earth distress of nations in perplexity [at] the roar of the sea and rolling waves,
- Revelation 17:15And he says to me, The waters which thou sawest, where the harlot sits, are peoples and multitudes and nations and tongues.
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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