Jeremiah 51:55
For LORD lays Babylon waste, and destroys the great voice out of her, and their waves roar like many waters; the noise of their voice is uttered.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
54The sound of a cry from Babylon, and of great destruction from the land of the Chaldeans!
Cross References
Psalms 18:4The cords of death encompassed me, and the floods of lawlessness made me afraid.
Psalms 93:3The floods have lifted up, O LORD, the floods have lifted up their voice, the floods lift up their waves.
Isaiah 17:13The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters, but he shall rebuke them. And they shall flee far off, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like the whirling dust before the storm.
Isaiah 47:5Sit thou silent, and get thee into darkness, O daughter of the Chaldeans, for thou shall no more be called The mistress of kingdoms.
Jeremiah 50:10And Chaldea shall be a prey. All who prey upon her shall be satisfied, says LORD.
Jeremiah 51:42The sea has come up upon Babylon. She is covered with the multitude of the waves thereof.
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 →