New American Standard Bible 2020
Jeremiah 51:42
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
40“I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, Like rams together with male goats. 41“How Sheshak has been captured, And the praise of the whole earth has been seized! How Babylon has become an object of horror among the nations! The sea has come up over Babylon; She has been engulfed by its roaring waves. 43Her cities have become an object of horror, A dry land and a desert, A land in which no one lives And through which no one of mankind passes. 44I will punish Bel in Babylon, And I will make what he has swallowed come out of his mouth; And the nations will no longer stream toward him. Even the wall of Babylon has fallen down!
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עָלָ֥ה עַל־בָּבֶ֖ל הַיָּ֑ם בַּהֲמ֥וֹן גַּלָּ֖יו נִכְסָֽתָה׃Read the interlinear
Cross-references for Jeremiah 51:42
- Psalms 18:4The ropes of death encompassed me, And the torrents of destruction terrified me.
- Psalms 42:7Deep calls to deep at the sound of Your waterfalls; All Your breakers and Your waves have passed over me.
- Psalms 65:7Who stills the roaring of the seas, The roaring of their waves, And the turmoil 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 8:7Now therefore, behold, the Lord is about to bring on them the strong and abundant waters of the Euphrates River, That is, 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 Into great waters; The east wind has broken you In the heart of the seas.
- Daniel 9:26Then after the sixty-two weeks, the Messiah will be cut off and have nothing, and the people of the prince who is to come will destroy the city and the sanctuary. And its end will come with a flood; even to the end there will be war; desolations are determined.
- Luke 21:25“There will be signs in the sun and moon and stars, and on the earth distress among nations, in perplexity at the roaring of the sea and the waves,
- Revelation 17:15And he said to me, “The waters which you saw where the prostitute sits 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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