English Standard Version
Jeremiah 51:42
42The sea has come up on 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.
- New King James Version (NKJV)The sea has come up over Babylon; She is covered with the multitude of its waves.
- New Living Translation (NLT)The sea has risen over Babylon; she is covered by its crashing waves.
Context of Jeremiah 51:42
40I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams and male goats. 41"How Babylon is taken, the praise of the whole earth seized! How Babylon has become a horror among the nations! The sea has come up on Babylon; she is covered with its tumultuous waves. 43Her 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. 44And I will punish Bel in Babylon, and take out of his mouth what he has swallowed. The nations shall no longer flow to him; the wall of Babylon has fallen.
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עָלָ֥ה עַל־בָּבֶ֖ל הַיָּ֑ם בַּהֲמ֥וֹן גַּלָּ֖יו נִכְסָֽתָה׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Jeremiah 51:42
- Psalms 18:4The cords of death encompassed me; the torrents of destruction assailed me;
- Psalms 42:7Deep calls to deep at the roar of your waterfalls; all your breakers and your waves have gone over me.
- Psalms 65:7who stills the roaring of the seas, the roaring of their waves, the tumult of the peoples,
- Psalms 93:3The floods have lifted up, O Lord, the floods have lifted up their voice; the floods lift up their roaring.
- Isaiah 8:7therefore, behold, the Lord is bringing up against them the waters of the River, mighty and many, the king of Assyria and all his glory. And it will rise over all its channels and go over all its banks,
- Ezekiel 27:26"Your rowers have brought you out into the high seas. The east wind has wrecked you in the heart of the seas.
- Daniel 9:26And after the sixty-two weeks, an anointed one shall be cut off and shall have nothing. And the people of the prince who is to come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary. Its end shall come with a flood, and to the end there shall be war. Desolations are decreed.
- Luke 21:25"And there will be signs in sun and moon and stars, and on the earth distress of nations in perplexity because of the roaring of the sea and the waves,
- Revelation 17:15And the angel said to me, "The waters that you saw, where the prostitute is seated, are peoples and multitudes and 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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