Jeremiah 51:41
How Sheshach is taken, and the praise of the whole earth seized! How Babylon has become a desolation among the nations!
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
40I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with he-goats.
42The sea has come up upon Babylon. She is covered with the multitude of the waves thereof.
Cross References
2 Chronicles 7:21And this house, which is so high, everyone who passes by it shall be astonished, and shall say, Why has LORD done thus to this land, and to this house?
Isaiah 14:4that thou shall take up this parable against the king of Babylon, and say, How has the oppressor ceased, the golden city ceased!
Jeremiah 49:25How is the city of praise not forsaken, the city of my joy?
Jeremiah 50:46At the noise of the taking of Babylon the earth trembles, and the cry is heard among the nations.
Ezekiel 27:35All the inhabitants of the isles are astonished at thee, and their kings are horribly afraid; they are troubled in their countenance.
Daniel 4:22it is thou, O king, who have grown and become strong. For thy greatness has grown, and reaches to heaven, and thy dominion to the end of the earth.
Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 51:2-59
The Judgment of Babylon. ( b. c. 595.) 1 Thus saith the Lord ; Behold, I will raise up against Babylon, and against them that dwell in the midst of them that rise up against me, a destroying wind; 2 And will send unto Babylon fanners, that shall fan her, and shall empty her land: for in the day of trouble they shall be against her round about. 3 Against him that bendeth let the archer bend his bow, and against him that lifteth himself up in his brigandine: and spare ye not her young men; destroy ye utterly all her… Read the whole commentary →