Jeremiah 51:42

The sea has ascended over Babylon; she has been covered by the multitude of its waves.

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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 was Sesac captured, and how was the renowned one of all the earth seized? How has Babylon become an astonishment among the nations?

43Her cities have become an astonishment, an uninhabited and desolate land, a land in which no one may live, nor may a son of man pass through it.

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Cross References

Psalms 18:4There are no speeches or conversations, where their voices are not being heard.

Psalms 93:3How long will sinners, O Lord, how long will sinners glory?

Isaiah 8:8And he will pass through Judah, inundating it, and he will cross over and arrive, even at its neck. And he will extend his wings, filling the breadth of your land, O Immanuel.”

Ezekiel 26:3because of this, thus says the Lord God: Behold, I am against you, O Tyre, and I will cause many nations to rise up against you, just as the waves of the sea rise up.

Daniel 7:2I saw in my vision at night, and behold, the four winds of the heavens fought upon 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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