God’s Word Translation
Jeremiah 51:42
42What a horrifying sight Babylon will be to the nations! The sea will rise over Babylon, and its roaring waves will cover it.
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 take them to be slaughtered like lambs, rams, and male goats. 41“Sheshach has been captured. Babylon, the city that the whole world praised, has been taken captive. What a horrifying sight Babylon will be to the nations! The sea will rise over Babylon, and its roaring waves will cover it. 43Its cities will be ruined. It will become a desert, a land where no one lives and where no human travels. 44I will punish Bel in Babylon. I will make Bel spit out everything that it has swallowed. Nations will no longer stream to Babylon, and its walls will fall.
Read all of Jeremiah 51Jeremiah 51:42 word by word
עָלָ֥ה עַל־בָּבֶ֖ל הַיָּ֑ם בַּהֲמ֥וֹן גַּלָּ֖יו נִכְסָֽתָה׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Jeremiah 51:42
- Psalms 18:4The ropes of death had become tangled around me. The torrents of destruction had overwhelmed me.
- Psalms 42:7One deep sea calls to another at the roar of your waterspouts. All the whitecaps on your waves have swept over me.
- Psalms 65:7the one who calms the roar of the seas, their crashing waves, and the uproar of the nations.
- Psalms 93:3The ocean rises, O Lord. The ocean rises with a roar. The ocean rises with its pounding waves.
- Isaiah 8:7That is why the Lord is going to bring against them the raging and powerful floodwaters of the Euphrates River— the king of Assyria with all his power. It will overflow all its channels and go over all its banks.
- Ezekiel 27:26Your rowers took you out to the high seas, and an east wind wrecked you in the sea.
- Daniel 9:26But after the sixty-two sets of seven time periods, the Anointed One will be cut off and have nothing. The city and the holy place will be destroyed with the prince who is to come. His end will come with a flood until the end of the destructive war that has been determined.
- Luke 21:25“Miraculous signs will occur in the sun, moon, and stars. The nations of the earth will be deeply troubled and confused because of the roaring and tossing of the sea.
- Revelation 17:15The angel also said to me, “The waters you saw, on which the prostitute is sitting, are people, crowds, 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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