Jeremiah 51:55
Because the Lord hath layde Babel waste and destroyed from her the great voyce, and her waues shall roare like great waters, and a sounde was made by their noyse:
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
In Context
54A sound of a cry commeth from Babel, and great destruction from the land of the Caldeans,
Cross References
Psalms 18:4The sorowes of death compassed me, and the floods of wickednes made me afraide.
Psalms 93:3The floodes haue lifted vp, O Lord: the floodes haue lifted vp their voyce: the floods lift vp their waues.
Isaiah 17:13The people shall make a sounde like the noise of many waters: but God shall rebuke them, and they shall flee farre off, and shalbe chased as the chaffe of the mountaines before the winde, and as a rolling thing before the whirlewinde.
Isaiah 47:5Sit still, and get thee into darkenesse, O daughter of the Chaldeas: for thou shalt no more be called, The ladie of kingdomes.
Jeremiah 50:10And Caldea shalbe a spoyle: all that spoyle her, shalbe satisfied, sayth the Lord.
Jeremiah 51:42The sea is come vp vpon Babel: he is couered with the multitude of the waues thereof.
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 →