Jeremiah 51:42

American Standard Version (1901)

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

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  • Isa 8:7-8 : 7 now therefore, behold, the Lord bringeth up upon them the waters of the River, strong and many, [even] the king of Assyria and all his glory: and it shall come up over all its channels, and go over all its banks; 8 and it shall sweep onward into Judah; it shall overflow and pass through; it shall reach even to the neck; and the stretching out of its wings shall fill the breadth of thy land, O Immanuel.
  • Dan 9:26 : 26 And after the threescore and two weeks shall the anointed one be cut off, and shall have nothing: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and even unto the end shall be war; desolations are determined.
  • Luke 21:25 : 25 And there shall be signs in sun and moon and stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, in perplexity for the roaring of the sea and the billows;
  • Rev 17:15-16 : 15 And he saith unto me, The waters which thou sawest, where the harlot sitteth, are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues. 16 And the ten horns which thou sawest, and the beast, these shall hate the harlot, and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and shall burn her utterly with fire.
  • Jer 51:55 : 55 For Jehovah layeth Babylon waste, and destroyeth out of her the great voice; and their waves roar like many waters; the noise of their voice is uttered:
  • Ezek 27:26-34 : 26 Thy rowers have brought thee into great waters: the east wind hath broken thee in the heart of the seas. 27 Thy riches, and thy wares, thy merchandise, thy mariners, and thy pilots, thy calkers, and the dealers in thy merchandise, and all thy men of war, that are in thee, with all thy company which is in the midst of thee, shall fall into the heart of the seas in the day of thy ruin. 28 At the sound of the cry of thy pilots the suburbs shall shake. 29 And all that handled the oar, the mariners, [and] all the pilots of the sea, shall come down from their ships; they shall stand upon the land, 30 and shall cause their voice to be heard over thee, and shall cry bitterly, and shall cast up dust upon their heads, they shall wallow themselves in the ashes: 31 and they shall make themselves bald for thee, and gird them with sackcloth, and they shall weep for thee in bitterness of soul with bitter mourning. 32 And in their wailing they shall take up a lamentation for thee, and lament over thee, [saying], Who is there like Tyre, like her that is brought to silence in the midst of the sea? 33 When thy wares went forth out of the seas, thou filledst many peoples; thou didst enrich the kings of the earth with the multitude of thy riches and of thy merchandise. 34 In the time that thou wast broken by the seas in the depths of the waters, thy merchandise and all thy company did fall in the midst of thee.
  • Ps 18:4 : 4 The cords of death compassed me, And the floods of ungodliness made me afraid.
  • Ps 18:16 : 16 He sent from on high, he took me; He drew me out of many waters.
  • Ps 42:7 : 7 Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy waterfalls: All thy waves and thy billows are gone over me.
  • Ps 65:7 : 7 Who stilleth the roaring of the seas, The roaring of their waves, And the tumult of the peoples.
  • Ps 93:3 : 3 The floods have lifted up, O Jehovah, The floods have lifted up their voice; The floods lift up their waves.

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  • Jer 51:53-55
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    53Though Babylon should mount up to heaven, and though she should fortify the height of her strength, yet from me shall destroyers come unto her, saith Jehovah.

    54The sound of a cry from Babylon, and of great destruction from the land of the Chaldeans!

    55For Jehovah layeth Babylon waste, and destroyeth out of her the great voice; and their waves roar like many waters; the noise of their voice is uttered:

  • Jer 51:41
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    41How is Sheshach taken! and the praise of the whole earth seized! how is Babylon become a desolation among the nations!

  • Jer 51:12-13
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    12Set up a standard against the walls of Babylon, make the watch strong, set the watchmen, prepare the ambushes; for Jehovah hath both purposed and done that which he spake concerning the inhabitants of Babylon.

    13O thou that dwellest upon many waters, abundant in treasures, thine end is come, the measure of thy covetousness.

  • Jer 51:36-37
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    36Therefore thus saith Jehovah: Behold, I will plead thy cause, and take vengeance for thee; and I will dry up her sea, and make her fountain dry.

    37And Babylon shall become heaps, a dwelling-place for jackals, an astonishment, and a hissing, without inhabitant.

  • Jer 51:43-44
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    43Her cities are become a desolation, a dry land, and a desert, a land wherein no man dwelleth, neither doth any son of man pass thereby.

    44And I will execute judgment upon Bel in Babylon, and I will bring forth out of his mouth that which he hath swallowed up; and the nations shall not flow any more unto him: yea, the wall of Babylon shall fall.

  • Ezek 26:17-19
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    17And they shall take up a lamentation over thee, and say to thee, How art thou destroyed, that wast inhabited by seafaring men, the renowned city, that was strong in the sea, she and her inhabitants, that caused their terror to be on all that dwelt there!

    18Now shall the isles tremble in the day of thy fall; yea, the isles that are in the sea shall be dismayed at thy departure.

    19For thus saith the Lord Jehovah: When I shall make thee a desolate city, like the cities that are not inhabited; when I shall bring up the deep upon thee, and the great waters shall cover thee;

  • Jer 50:46
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    46At the noise of the taking of Babylon the earth trembleth, and the cry is heard among the nations.

  • Jer 51:47-49
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    47Therefore, behold, the days come, that I will execute judgment upon the graven images of Babylon; and her whole land shall be confounded; and all her slain shall fall in the midst of her.

    48Then the heavens and the earth, and all that is therein, shall sing for joy over Babylon; for the destroyers shall come unto her from the north, saith Jehovah.

    49As Babylon hath caused the slain of Israel to fall, so at Babylon shall fall the slain of all the land.

  • Jer 51:7-8
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    7Babylon 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.

    8Babylon is suddenly fallen and destroyed: wail for her; take balm for her pain, if so be she may be healed.

  • Jer 51:31-34
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    31One 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:

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

    33For thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel: The daughter of Babylon is like a threshing-floor at the time when it is trodden; yet a little while, and the time of harvest shall come for her.

    34Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon hath devoured me, he hath crushed me, he hath made me an empty vessel, he hath, like a monster, swallowed [ me up, he hath filled his maw with my delicacies; he hath cast me out.

  • Isa 17:12
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    12Ah, the uproar of many peoples, that roar like the roaring of the seas; and the rushing of nations, that rush like the rushing of mighty waters!

  • Jer 51:64
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    64and thou shalt say, Thus shall Babylon sink, and shall not rise again because of the evil that I will bring upon her; and they shall be weary. Thus far are the words of Jeremiah.

  • Jer 51:29
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    29And the land trembleth and is in pain; for the purposes of Jehovah against Babylon do stand, to make the land of Babylon a desolation, without inhabitant.

  • Jer 50:13
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    13Because of the wrath of Jehovah she shall not be inhabited, but she shall be wholly desolate: every one that goeth by Babylon shall be astonished, and hiss at all her plagues.

  • Ezek 27:34
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    34In the time that thou wast broken by the seas in the depths of the waters, thy merchandise and all thy company did fall in the midst of thee.

  • Jer 50:22-23
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    22A sound of battle is in the land, and of great destruction.

    23How is the hammer of the whole earth cut asunder and broken! how is Babylon become a desolation among the nations!

  • Jer 50:15
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    15Shout against her round about: she hath submitted herself; her bulwarks are fallen, her walls are thrown down; for it is the vengeance of Jehovah: take vengeance upon her; as she hath done, do unto her.

  • Ezek 27:26
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    26Thy rowers have brought thee into great waters: the east wind hath broken thee in the heart of the seas.

  • Ezek 26:3
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    3therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah, Behold, I am against thee, O Tyre, and will cause many nations to come up against thee, as the sea causeth its waves to come up.

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    7Who is this that riseth up like the Nile, whose waters toss themselves like the rivers?

    8Egypt riseth up like the Nile, and his waters toss themselves like the rivers: and he saith, I will rise up, I will cover the earth; I will destroy cities and the inhabitants thereof.

  • Job 30:14
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    14As through a wide breach they come: In the midst of the ruin they roll themselves [upon me] .

  • Ps 93:3-4
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    3The floods have lifted up, O Jehovah, The floods have lifted up their voice; The floods lift up their waves.

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  • Ps 124:5
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    5Then the proud waters had gone over our soul.

  • Rev 18:21
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    21And a strong angel took up a stone as it were a great millstone and cast it into the sea, saying, Thus with a mighty fall shall Babylon, the great city, be cast down, and shall be found no more at all.

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    38A 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.

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    1The burden of the wilderness of the sea. As whirlwinds in the South sweep through, it cometh from the wilderness, from a terrible land.

  • Ps 42:7
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    7Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy waterfalls: All thy waves and thy billows are gone over me.

  • Isa 51:10
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    10Is it not thou that driedst up the sea, the waters of the great deep; that madest the depths of the sea a way for the redeemed to pass over?

  • Isa 23:11
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    11He hath stretched out his hand over the sea, he hath shaken the kingdoms: Jehovah hath given commandment concerning Canaan, to destroy the strongholds thereof.

  • Isa 24:14
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    14These shall lift up their voice, they shall shout; for the majesty of Jehovah they cry aloud from the sea.

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    3Though the waters thereof roar and be troubled, Though the mountains tremble with the swelling thereof. {{Selah

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    1The word that Jehovah spake concerning Babylon, concerning the land of the Chaldeans, by Jeremiah the prophet.

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    58Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: The broad walls of Babylon shall be utterly overthrown, and her high gates shall be burned with fire; and the peoples shall labor for vanity, and the nations for the fire; and they shall be weary.

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    41Behold, a people cometh from the north; and a great nation and many kings shall be stirred up from the uttermost parts of the earth.