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Jeremiah 51:31

Jeremiah chapter 51 · verse 31 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

One post shall run to meet another, and one messenger to meet another, to show the king of Babylon that his city is taken on every quarter:

KJV

King James Version · 1611

One post shall run to meet another, and one messenger to meet another, to shew the king of Babylon that his city is taken at one end,

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

One post shall run to meet another, and one messenger to meet another, to show the king of Babylon that his city is taken on every quarter:

Context

v.30The mighty men of Babylon have forborne to fight, they remain in their strongholds; their might hath failed; they are become as women: her dwelling-places are set on fire; her bars are broken.

v.31This passage

v.32and the passages are seized, and the reeds they have burned with fire, and the men of war are affrighted.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • 2 Chronicles 30:6

    So the posts went with the letters from the king and his princes throughout all Israel and Judah, and according to the commandment of the king, saying, Ye children of Israel, turn again unto Jehovah, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, that he may return to the remnant that are escaped of you out of the hand of the kings of Assyria.

  • Esther 8:10

    And he wrote in the name of king Ahasuerus, and sealed it with the king’s ring, and sent letters by posts on horseback, riding on swift steeds that were used in the king’s service, bred of the stud:

  • Isaiah 21:3

    Therefore are my loins filled with anguish; pangs have taken hold upon me, as the pangs of a woman in travail: I am pained so that I cannot hear; I am dismayed so that I cannot see.

  • Esther 8:14

    So the posts that rode upon swift steeds that were used in the king’s service went out, being hastened and pressed on by the king’s commandment; and the decree was given out in Shushan the palace.

  • Jeremiah 4:20

    Destruction upon destruction is cried; for the whole land is laid waste: suddenly are my tents destroyed, and my curtains in a moment.

  • 2 Samuel 18:19

    Then said Ahimaaz the son of Zadok, Let me now run, and bear the king tidings, how that Jehovah hath avenged him of his enemies.