Jeremiah 51:42

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

Douay-Rheims 1899

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 Sesach taken, and the renowned one of all the earth surprised? How is Babylon become an astonishment among the nations?

43Her cities are become an astonishment, a land uninhabited and desolate, a land wherein none can dwell, nor son of man pass through it.

Read all of Jeremiah 51

Cross References

Psalms 18:4Praising I will call upon the Lord: and I shall be saved from my enemies.

Psalms 42:7and my God. My soul is troubled within myself : therefore will I remember thee from the land of Jordan and Hermoniim, from the little hill.

Psalms 93:3The floods have lifted up, O Lord: the floods have lifted up their voice. The floods have lifted up their waves,

Isaiah 8:8And shall pass through Juda, overflowing, and going over shall reach even to the neck. And the stretching out of his wings shall fill the breadth of thy land, O Emmanuel.

Ezekiel 26:3Therefore thus saith the Lord God: Behold I come against thee, O Tyre, and I will cause many nations to come up to thee, as the waves of the sea rise up.

Daniel 7:2I saw in my vision by night, and behold the four winds of the heaven strove 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 →

This Verse In Other Editions

Study Jeremiah 51:42