Jeremiah 50:38
Jeremiah chapter 50 · verse 38 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000A drought is upon her waters, and they shall be dried up; for it is a land of graven images, and they are mad over idols.
KJV
King James Version · 1611A drought is upon her waters; and they shall be dried up: for it is the land of graven images, and they are mad upon their idols.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901A drought is upon her waters, and they shall be dried up; for it is a land of graven images, and they are mad over idols.
Context
v.37A sword is upon their horses, and upon their chariots, and upon all the mingled people that are in the midst of her; and they shall become as women: a sword is upon her treasures, and they shall be robbed.
v.38This passage
v.39Therefore the wild beasts of the desert with the wolves shall dwell there, and the ostriches shall dwell therein: and it shall be no more inhabited for ever; neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Jeremiah 50:2
Declare ye among the nations and publish, and set up a standard; publish, and conceal not: say, Babylon is taken, Bel is put to shame, Merodach is dismayed; her images are put to shame, her idols are dismayed.
- Jeremiah 50:12
your mother shall be utterly put to shame; she that bare you shall be confounded: behold, she shall be the hindermost of the nations, a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert.
- Daniel 5:4
They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold, and of silver, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone.
- Jeremiah 51:7
Babylon hath been a golden cup in Jehovah’s hand, that made all the earth drunken: the nations have drunk of her wine; therefore the nations are mad.
- Jeremiah 51:52
Wherefore, behold, the days come, saith Jehovah, that I will execute judgment upon her graven images; and through all her land the wounded shall groan.
- Habakkuk 2:18
What profiteth the graven image, that the maker thereof hath graven it; the molten image, even the teacher of lies, that he that fashioneth its form trusteth therein, to make dumb idols?