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Jeremiah 51:41

Jeremiah chapter 51 · verse 41 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

How is Sheshach taken! and the praise of the whole earth seized! how is Babylon become a desolation among the nations!

KJV

King James Version · 1611

How is Sheshach taken! and how is the praise of the whole earth surprised! how is Babylon become an astonishment among the nations!

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

How is Sheshach taken! and the praise of the whole earth seized! how is Babylon become a desolation among the nations!

Context

v.40I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with he-goats.

v.41This passage

v.42The sea is come up upon Babylon; she is covered with the multitude of the waves thereof.

Cross references

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

  • Daniel 2:38

    and wheresoever the children of men dwell, the beasts of the field and the birds of the heavens hath he given into thy hand, and hath made thee to rule over them all: thou art the head of gold.

  • Deuteronomy 28:37

    And thou shalt become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword, among all the peoples whither Jehovah shall lead thee away.

  • Jeremiah 50:23

    How is the hammer of the whole earth cut asunder and broken! how is Babylon become a desolation among the nations!

  • Ezekiel 27:35

    All the inhabitants of the isles are astonished at thee, and their kings are horribly afraid; they are troubled in their countenance.

  • Isaiah 13:19

    And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldeans’ pride, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.

  • Daniel 4:22

    it is thou, O king, that art grown and become strong; for thy greatness is grown, and reacheth unto heaven, and thy dominion to the end of the earth.