Jeremiah 51:41
How hath Sheshach been captured, Yea, caught is the praise of the whole earth, How hath Babylon been for an astonishment among nations.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
40I cause them to go down as lambs to slaughter, As rams with he-goats.
42Come up against Babylon hath the sea, With a multitude of its billows it hath been covered.
Cross References
2 Chronicles 7:21'And this house that hath been high, to every one passing by it, is an astonishment, and he hath said, Wherefore hath Jehovah done thus to this land, and to this house?
Isaiah 14:4That thou hast taken up this simile Concerning the king of Babylon, and said, How hath the exactor ceased,
Jeremiah 49:25How is it not left — the city of praise, The city of my joy!
Jeremiah 50:46From the voice: Captured was Babylon, Hath the earth been shaken, And a cry among nations hath been heard!
Ezekiel 27:35All inhabitants of the isles have been astonished at thee, And their kings have been sore afraid, They have been troubled in countenance.
Daniel 4:22'Thou it [is], O king, for thou hast become great and mighty, and thy greatness hath become great, and hath 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 →