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‘Now an enemy will take power over Babylon! Everyone in the world praised it as a great nation. But now all the nations will see that it is a disgusting place. 42The sea will pour over it. Many waves of water will cover it. Babylonia's towns will become heaps of stones. The land will be dry and empty, like a desert. Nobody will live there any more. Nobody will even travel through the land. 44I will punish Bel, the god of Babylon. I will cause him to give back everything that he has taken. Nations will never go to worship him again. Yes, the walls of Babylon will fall down!’ 45‘Escape from Babylon, my people! Run away to save your lives! The Lord is very angry with that place, so run away from there!

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 whole earth will shake with pain as the Lord punishes Babylonia. He will certainly do what he has decided to do. He will make the land of Babylonia as empty as a desert. Nobody will live there.
• Jeremiah 50:39Hyenas and other wild animals will live there. Ostriches will live there, too. But people will never live there again. It will remain as empty as a desert.
• Jeremiah 2:6They did not think to themselves, “Where is the Lord? We should ask him to help us. He brought us safely out of Egypt. He led us through the wilderness. It was a place with dry sand and deep holes. There was no water there and it was dangerous. Nobody lives in that desert, and nobody even travels through it.”
• Isaiah 13:20The people and their descendants will never live there again. No Arab will put his tent there. No shepherds will take their sheep there to rest.
• Ezekiel 29:10Because of that, I have become the enemy of you and your streams. I will destroy the land of Egypt. It will be an empty place, and its buildings will become heaps of stones. I will do that everywhere, from Migdol to Aswan and as far as Ethiopia's border.

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