Jeremiah 51:41
How hath Sheshach, been captured! How hath the praise of all the earth been seized! How hath Babylon become an astonishment among the nations!
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
In Context
40I will bring them down As fat lambs to slaughter,—As rams with he-goats.
42The sea, hath gone up over Babylon,—With the multitude of its rolling waves, is she covered.
Cross References
2 Chronicles 7:21and, this house which hath been renowned, all that pass by near it, shall be astonished,—and say, Wherefore hath Yahweh done, thus and thus, to this land, and to this house?
Isaiah 14:4that thou shalt take up this taunt over the king of Babylon, and shalt say:—How hath ceased the oppressor! Ceased the exactress!
Jeremiah 49:25Alas! is she not forsaken—The city so praised! The citadel I rejoiced in!
Jeremiah 50:46At the noise of the taking of Babylon, the earth trembled,—And, the outcry, among the nations, was heard.
Ezekiel 27:35All the dwellers in the coastlands, Are astounded over thee,- And their kings have been made to shudder a shuddering, To be troubled in countenance.
Daniel 4:22Thyself, it is, O king, in that thou art grown, and become strong,—and, thy greatness hath grown, and reached to the heavens, and, thy 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 →