Jeremiah 51:42
The sea is come up upon Babylon; she is covered with the multitude of the waves thereof.
JPS TaNaKH 1917
In The King James Version
The sea is come up upon Babylon: she is covered with the multitude of the waves thereof.
In Context
Cross References
Psalms 18:4(18-5) The cords of Death compassed me, and the floods of Belial assailed me.
Psalms 42:7(42-8) Deep calleth unto deep at the voice of Thy cataracts; all Thy waves and Thy billows are gone over me.
Psalms 93:3The floods have lifted up, O LORD, the floods have lifted up their voice; the floods lift up their roaring.
Isaiah 8:8And he shall sweep through Judah overflowing as he passeth through he shall reach even to the neck; and the stretching out of his wings shall fill the breadth of thy land, O Immanuel.
Ezekiel 26:3Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD: Behold, I am against thee, O Tyre, and will cause many nations to come up against thee, as the sea causeth its waves to come up.
Daniel 7:2Daniel spoke and said: I saw in my vision by night, and, behold, the four winds of the heaven broke forth 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 →