Jeremiah 51:41
How is Babylon taken! and the praise of all the earth surprised! how has Babylon become a cause of wonder among the nations!
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
In Context
40I will make them go down to death like lambs, like he-goats together.
42The sea has come up over Babylon; she is covered with the mass of its waves.
Cross References
2 Chronicles 7:21And this house will become a mass of broken walls, and everyone who goes by will be overcome with wonder, and will say, Why has the Lord done so to this land and to this house?
Isaiah 14:4That you will take up this bitter song against the king of Babylon, and say, How has the cruel overseer come to an end! He who was lifted up in pride is cut off;
Jeremiah 49:25How has the town of praise been wasted, the place of joy!
Jeremiah 50:46At the cry, Babylon is taken! the earth is shaking, and the cry comes to the ears of the nations.
Ezekiel 27:35All the people of the sea-lands are overcome with wonder at you, and their kings are full of fear, their faces are troubled.
Daniel 4:22It is you, O King, who have become great and strong: for your power is increased and stretching up to heaven, and your rule 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 →