Jeremiah 51:41
How is Sheshach captured! and how is conquered the praise of the whole earth! how is Babylon become an astonishment among the nations!
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
In Context
40I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like wethers with he-goats.
42The sea is come up over Babylon: with the multitude of its waves is she covered.
Cross References
2 Chronicles 7:21And this house, which hath been so exalted, shall become an astonishment to every one that passeth by it: so that he will say, Why hath the Lord done thus unto this land, and unto this house?
Isaiah 14:4That thou wilt take up this parable against the king of Babylon, and say, How hath ceased the oppressor! ceased the exactress of gold!
Jeremiah 49:25“How is the city of praise not forsaken, the town of my joy!”
Jeremiah 50:46At the noise of the conquest of Babylon the earth quaketh, and the outcry is heard among the nations.
Ezekiel 27:35All the inhabitants of the isles are astonished at thee, and the hair of their kings stand at an end, grieved are their countenances.
Daniel 4:22(4:19) It is thou, O king, that art grown and become strong; and thy greatness is grown apace, and reacheth unto heaven, and thy dominion is 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 →