Jeremiah 51:42
Come up against Babylon hath the sea, With a multitude of its billows it hath been covered.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
The sea is come up upon Babylon: she is covered with the multitude of the waves thereof.
In Context
Cross References
Psalms 18:4Compassed me have cords of death, And streams of the worthless make me afraid.
Psalms 42:7Deep unto deep is calling At the noise of Thy water-spouts, All Thy breakers and Thy billows passed over me.
Psalms 93:3Floods have lifted up, O Jehovah, Floods have lifted up their voice, Floods lift up their breakers.
Isaiah 8:8And it hath passed on into Judah, It hath overflown and passed over, Unto the neck it cometh, And the stretching out of its wings Hath been the fulness of the breadth of thy land, O Emmanu-El!
Ezekiel 26:3Therefore, thus said the Lord Jehovah: Lo, I [am] against thee, O Tyre, And have caused to come up against thee many nations, As the sea causeth its billows to come up.
Daniel 7:2Answered hath Daniel and said, 'I was seeing in my vision by night, and lo, the four winds of the heavens are coming forth to 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 →