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Jeremiah 51:42

The sea has come up upon Babylon: she is covered with the multitude of the waves thereof.

Updated King James Version

In The King James Version

The sea is come up upon Babylon: she is covered with the multitude of the waves thereof.

In Context

41How is Sheshach taken! and how is the praise of the whole earth surprised! how is Babylon become an astonishment among the nations!

43Her cities are a desolation, a dry land, and a wilderness, a land wherein no man dwells, neither does any son of man pass thereby.

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Cross References

Psalms 18:4The sorrows of death compassed me, and the floods of ungodly men made me afraid.

Psalms 42:7Deep calls unto deep at the noise of your waterspouts: all your waves and your billows are gone over me.

Psalms 93:3The floods have lifted up, O LORD, the floods have lifted up their voice; the floods lift up their waves.

Isaiah 8:8And he shall pass through Judah; he shall overflow and go over, he shall reach even to the neck; and the stretching out of his wings shall fill the breadth of your land, O Immanuel.

Ezekiel 26:3Therefore thus says the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against you, O Tyrus, and will cause many nations to come up against you, as the sea causes his waves to come up.

Daniel 7:2Daniel spoke and said, I saw in my vision by night, and, behold, the four winds of the heaven strove upon the great sea.

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 →

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