Jeremiah 51:42 — Bible Verse (KJV)
“The sea is come up upon Babylon: she is covered with the multitude of the waves thereof.”
Jeremiah 51:42 — King James Version (KJV), 1611
Jeremiah 51:42 in 6 Bible Translations
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Jeremiah 51:42 WEB — World English Bible (2000)
“The sea has come up on Babylon. She is covered with the multitude of its waves.”
Jeremiah 51:42 — World English Bible
Jeremiah 51:42 ASV — American Standard Version (1901)
“The sea is come up upon Babylon; she is covered with the multitude of the waves thereof.”
Jeremiah 51:42 — American Standard Version
Jeremiah 51:42 YLT — Young's Literal Translation (1862)
“Come up against Babylon hath the sea, With a multitude of its billows it hath been covered.”
Jeremiah 51:42 — Young's Literal Translation
Jeremiah 51:42 DBY — Darby Translation (1890)
“The sea is come up upon Babylon: she is covered with the multitude of its waves.”
Jeremiah 51:42 — Darby Translation
Jeremiah 51:42 GEN — Geneva Bible (1599)
“The sea is come vp vpon Babel: he is couered with the multitude of the waues thereof.”
Jeremiah 51:42 — Geneva Bible
Jeremiah 51:42 in Context — Jeremiah 51
40 I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with he goats.
41 How is Sheshach taken! and how is the praise of the whole earth surprised! how is Babylon become an astonishment among the nations!
42 The sea is come up upon Babylon: she is covered with the multitude of the waves thereof.
43 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.
44 And I will punish Bel in Babylon, and I will bring forth out of his mouth that which he hath swallowed up: and the nations shall not flow together any more unto him: yea, the wall of Babylon shall fall.
What Does Jeremiah 51:42 Mean?
Jeremiah 51:42 is a verse from the Book of Jeremiah, part of the Old Testament. It appears in Jeremiah chapter 51. Use The Living Sword's word-by-word study mode to explore every word in the original Hebrew and Aramaic.
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