Jeremiah 51:37
What does Jeremiah 51:37 mean?
A plain-English look at Jeremiah 51:37 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
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WEB
World English Bible · 2000And Babylon shall become heaps, a dwelling-place for jackals, an astonishment, and a hissing, without inhabitant.
KJV
King James Version · 1611And Babylon shall become heaps, a dwellingplace for dragons, an astonishment, and an hissing, without an inhabitant.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901And Babylon shall become heaps, a dwelling-place for jackals, an astonishment, and a hissing, without inhabitant.
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949And Babylon will become a mass of broken walls, a hole for jackals, a cause of wonder and surprise, without a living man in it.
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862And Babylon hath been for heaps, A habitation of dragons, An astonishment, and a hissing, without inhabitant.
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752And Babylon shall be reduced to heaps, a dwelling place for dragons, an astonishment and a hissing, because there is no inhabitant.
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890And Babylon shall become heaps, a dwelling-place of jackals, an astonishment, and a hissing, without inhabitant.
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Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Jeremiah 51:25
Behold, I am against thee, O destroying mountain, saith Jehovah, which destroyest all the earth; and I will stretch out my hand upon thee, and roll thee down from the rocks, and will make thee a burnt mountain.
- Jeremiah 25:12
And it shall come to pass, when seventy years are accomplished, that I will punish the king of Babylon, and that nation, saith Jehovah, for their iniquity, and the land of the Chaldeans; and I will make it desolate for ever.
- Jeremiah 50:23
How is the hammer of the whole earth cut asunder and broken! how is Babylon become a desolation among the nations!
- 2 Chronicles 29:8
Wherefore the wrath of Jehovah was upon Judah and Jerusalem, and he hath delivered them to be tossed to and fro, to be an astonishment, and a hissing, as ye see with your eyes.
- 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.
- Jeremiah 25:9
behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, saith Jehovah, and I will send unto Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will bring them against this land, and against the inhabitants thereof, and against all these nations round about; and I will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, and a hissing, and perpetual desolations.
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