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Jeremiah 51:42

The sea has come up over Babylon; she is covered with the mass of its waves.

Bible in Basic English

In The King James Version

The sea is come up upon Babylon: she is covered with the multitude of the waves thereof.

In Context

41How is Babylon taken! and the praise of all the earth surprised! how has Babylon become a cause of wonder among the nations!

43Her towns have become a waste, a dry and unwatered land, where no man has his living-place and no son of man goes by.

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Cross References

Psalms 18:4\18:3\I will send up my cry to the Lord, who is to be praised; so will I be made safe from those who are against me.

Psalms 42:7\42:6\My soul is crushed down in me, so I will keep you in mind; from the land of Jordan and of the Hermons, from the hill Mizar.

Psalms 93:3The rivers send up, O Lord, the rivers send up their voices; they send them up with a loud cry.

Isaiah 8:8And it will come on into Judah; rushing on and overflowing, till the waters are up to the neck; *** and his outstretched wings will be covering the land from side to side: for God is with us.

Ezekiel 26:3For this cause the Lord has said, See, I am against you, O Tyre, and will send up a number of nations against you as the sea sends up its waves.

Daniel 7:2I had a vision by night, and saw the four winds of heaven violently moving the great sea.

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 →

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