Jeremiah 51:41
“How Sheshach is taken! How the praise of the whole earth is seized! How Babylon has become a desolation among the nations!
World English Bible Classic
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In Context
40“I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with male goats.
42The sea has come up on Babylon. She is covered with the multitude of its waves.
Cross References
2 Chronicles 7:21This house, which is so high, everyone who passes by it will be astonished and say, ‘Why has the LORD done this to this land and to this house?’
Isaiah 14:4that you will take up this parable against the king of Babylon, and say, “How the oppressor has ceased! The golden city has ceased!”
Jeremiah 49:25How is the city of praise not forsaken, the city of my joy?
Jeremiah 50:46The earth trembles at the noise of the taking of Babylon. The cry is heard among the nations.
Ezekiel 27:35All the inhabitants of the islands are astonished at you, and their kings are horribly afraid. They are troubled in their face.
Daniel 4:22it is you, O king, that have grown and become strong; for your greatness has grown, and reaches to the sky, and your 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 →