Jeremiah 51:41
How is Sheshach taken! and the praise of the whole earth seized! How is Babylon become an astonishment among the nations!
JPS TaNaKH 1917
In The King James Version
In Context
40I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with he-goats.
42The sea is come up upon Babylon; she is covered with the multitude of the waves thereof.
Cross References
2 Chronicles 7:21And this house, which is so high, every one that passeth by it shall be astonished, and shall say: Why hath the LORD done thus unto this land, and to this house?
Isaiah 14:4that thou shalt take up this parable against the king of Babylon, and say: How hath the oppressor ceased! the exactress of gold ceased!
Jeremiah 49:25'How is the city of praise left unrepaired, the city of my joy?'
Jeremiah 50:46At the noise of the taking of Babylon the earth quaketh, and the cry is heard among the nations.
Ezekiel 27:35All the inhabitants of the isles are appalled at thee, and their kings are horribly afraid, they are troubled in their countenance;
Daniel 4:22(4-19) it is thou, O king, that art grown and become strong; for thy greatness is grown, and reacheth unto heaven, and thy dominion 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 →