Jeremiah 51:41
How is Sesach taken, and the renowned one of all the earth surprised? How is Babylon become an astonishment among the nations?
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
40I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, and like rams with kids.
42The sea is come up over Babylon: she is covered with the multitude of the waves thereof.
Cross References
2 Chronicles 7:21And this house shall be for a proverb to all that pass by, and they shall be astonished and say: Why hath the Lord done thus to this land, and to this house?
Isaiah 14:4Thou shalt take up this parable against the king of Babylon, and shalt say: How is the oppressor come to nothing, the tribute hath ceased?
Jeremiah 49:25How have they forsaken the city of renown, the city of joy !
Jeremiah 50:46At the noise of the taking of Babylon the earth is moved, and the cry is heard amongst the nations.
Ezekiel 27:35All the inhabitants of the islands are astonished at thee: and all their kings being struck with the storm have changed their countenance.
Daniel 4:22It is thou, O king, who art grown great and become mighty: for thy greatness hath grown, and hath reached to heaven, and thy power unto the ends 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 →