Jeremiah 51:55
For Jehovah is spoiling Babylon, And hath destroyed out of it a great voice, And sounded have its billows as many waters, Given forth a noise hath their voice.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
54A voice of a cry [is] from Babylon, And of great destruction from the land of the Chaldean.
Cross References
Psalms 18:4Compassed me have cords of death, And streams of the worthless make me afraid.
Psalms 93:3Floods have lifted up, O Jehovah, Floods have lifted up their voice, Floods lift up their breakers.
Isaiah 17:13Nations as the wasting of many waters are wasted, And He hath pushed against it, And it hath fled afar off, And been pursued as chaff of hills before wind, And as a rolling thing before a hurricane.
Isaiah 47:5Sit silent, and go into darkness, O daughter of the Chaldeans, For no more do they cry to thee, 'Mistress of kingdoms.'
Jeremiah 50:10And Chaldea hath been for a spoil, All her spoilers are satisfied, An affirmation of Jehovah.
Jeremiah 51:42Come up against Babylon hath the sea, With a multitude of its billows it hath been covered.
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 →