Jeremiah 51:41
How is Sheshach taken! and howe is the glory of the whole earth taken! how is Babel become an astonishment among the nations!
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
In Context
40I wil bring them downe like lambes to the slaughter, and like rams and goates.
42The sea is come vp vpon Babel: he is couered with the multitude of the waues thereof.
Cross References
2 Chronicles 7:21And this house which is most hie, shall be an astonishment to euery one that passeth by it, so that he shall say, Why hath the Lord done thus to this lande, and to this house?
Isaiah 14:4Then shalt thou take vp this prouerbe against the King of Babel, and say, Howe hath the oppressor ceased? and the gold thirsty Babel rested?
Jeremiah 49:25How is the glorious citie not reserued, the citie of my ioy?
Jeremiah 50:46At the noyse of the winning of Babel the earth is moued, and the crye is heard among the nations.
Ezekiel 27:35All the inhabitantes of the yles shall be astonished at thee, and all their Kings shall be sore afraide and troubled in their countenance.
Daniel 4:22That they shall driue thee from men, and thy dwelling shalbe with the beasts of the fielde: they shall make thee to eate grasse as the oxen, and they shall wet thee with the dewe of heauen: and seuen times shall passe ouer thee, till thou knowe, that the most High beareth rule ouer the kingdome of men, and giueth it to whom so euer he will.
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 →