Jeremiah 51:41

KJV1611 – Modern English

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

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  • Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

    'How Sheshach has been captured, the glory of the whole earth seized! How Babylon has become a horror among the nations!

  • King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

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

  • American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

    How is Sheshach{H8347} taken!{H3920} and the praise{H8416} of the whole earth{H776} seized!{H8610} how is Babylon{H894} become a desolation{H8047} among the nations!{H1471}

  • King James Version with Strong's Numbers

    How is Sheshach{H8347} taken{H3920}{(H8738)}! and how is the praise{H8416} of the whole earth{H776} surprised{H8610}{(H8735)}! how is Babylon{H894} become an astonishment{H8047} among the nations{H1471}!

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    O, how was Sesah wonne? O, how was the glory of ye whole londe taken? how happeneth it, that Babilon is so wondred at amonge the Heithe?

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

    How is Sheshach taken! and howe is the glory of the whole earth taken! how is Babel become an astonishment among the nations!

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    O howe was Sesach wonne? O howe was the glorie of the whole lande taken? howe happeneth it that Babylon is so wondred at among the heathen?

  • Authorized 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!

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

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

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

    How hath Sheshach been captured, Yea, caught is the praise of the whole earth, How hath Babylon been for an astonishment among nations.

  • 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!

  • 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!

  • Bible in Basic English (1941)

    How is Babylon taken! and the praise of all the earth surprised! how has Babylon become a cause of wonder among the nations!

  • 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!

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

    “See how Babylon has been captured! See how the pride of the whole earth has been taken! See what an object of horror Babylon has become among the nations!

Referenced Verses

  • Jer 25:26 : 26 And all the kings of the north, far and near, one with another, and all the kingdoms of the world which are upon the face of the earth; and the king of Sheshach shall drink after them.
  • Isa 13:19 : 19 And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldeans' excellency, will be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.
  • Jer 49:25 : 25 How is the city of praise not forsaken, the city of my joy!
  • Jer 50:23 : 23 How the hammer of the whole earth is cut apart and broken! how Babylon has become a desolation among the nations!
  • Jer 50:46 : 46 At the noise of the capture of Babylon the earth is moved, and the cry is heard among the nations.
  • Jer 51:37 : 37 Babylon shall become heaps, a dwelling place for dragons, an astonishment, and a hissing, without an inhabitant.
  • Ezek 27:35 : 35 All the inhabitants of the islands shall be astonished at you, and their kings shall be sore afraid, they shall be troubled in their countenance.
  • Dan 2:38 : 38 And wherever the children of men dwell, or the beasts of the field and the birds of the heavens, he has given them into your hand, and has made you ruler over them all. You are this head of gold.
  • Dan 4:22 : 22 it is you, O king, who have grown and become strong, for your greatness has grown and reaches unto heaven, and your dominion to the end of the earth.
  • Dan 4:30 : 30 The king spoke, and said, Is not this great Babylon, that I have built for a royal residence, by the might of my power and for the honor of my majesty?
  • Dan 5:1-5 : 1 Belshazzar the king made a great feast for a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand. 2 Belshazzar, while he tasted the wine, commanded to bring the gold and silver vessels which his father Nebuchadnezzar had taken out of the temple which was in Jerusalem; that the king, and his princes, his wives, and his concubines, might drink from them. 3 Then they brought the gold vessels that were taken out of the temple of the house of God which was at Jerusalem; and the king, and his princes, his wives, and his concubines, drank from them. 4 They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold and silver, of brass, iron, wood, and stone. 5 In the same hour, fingers of a man's hand appeared and wrote on the plaster of the wall of the king's palace, opposite the lampstand; and the king saw the part of the hand that wrote.
  • Rev 18:10-19 : 10 Standing far off for fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas, that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour your judgment has come. 11 And the merchants of the earth shall weep and mourn over her; for no one buys their merchandise any more: 12 The merchandise of gold, and silver, and precious stones, and pearls, and fine linen, and purple, and silk, and scarlet, and all kinds of citron wood, and all types of vessels of ivory, and all kinds of vessels of most precious wood, and of brass, and iron, and marble, 13 And cinnamon, and incense, and ointments, and frankincense, and wine, and oil, and fine flour, and wheat, and cattle, and sheep, and horses, and chariots, and slaves, and souls of men. 14 And the fruits that your soul longed for have departed from you, and all things which were luxurious and splendid have departed from you, and you shall find them no more at all. 15 The merchants of these things, who became rich by her, shall stand far off for fear of her torment, weeping and wailing, 16 And saying, Alas, alas, that great city, that was clothed in fine linen, and purple, and scarlet, and adorned with gold, and precious stones, and pearls! 17 For in one hour such great riches came to nothing. And every captain, and all who travel by ship, and sailors, and as many as trade by sea, stood far off, 18 And cried when they saw the smoke of her burning, saying, What city is like this great city! 19 And they threw dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and wailing, saying, Alas, alas, that great city, in which all who had ships on the sea were made rich by her wealth! for in one hour she is made desolate.
  • Isa 14:4 : 4 That you will take up this proverb against the king of Babylon, and say, How has the oppressor ceased! the golden city ceased!
  • Deut 28:37 : 37 And you shall become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword, among all nations where the LORD shall lead you.
  • 2 Chr 7:21 : 21 And this house, which is exalted, shall be an astonishment to everyone who passes by it; so that they will say, Why has the LORD done this to this land and to this house?

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  • Jer 50:22-24
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    22 A sound of battle is in the land, and of great destruction.

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

    24 I have set a trap for you, and you are also caught, O Babylon, and you were not aware: you are found, and also caught, because you have fought against the LORD.

  • Jer 51:42-44
    3 verses
    81%

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

    43 Her cities are a desolation, a dry land and a wilderness, a land where no one dwells, nor does any son of man pass by.

    44 And I will punish Bel in Babylon, and I will bring forth out of his mouth what he has swallowed; and the nations shall no longer gather to him; indeed, the wall of Babylon shall fall.

  • Jer 50:45-46
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    45 Therefore hear the counsel of the LORD, that he has taken against Babylon; and his purposes, that he has purposed against the land of the Chaldeans: Surely the least of the flock shall drag them out: surely he shall make their dwelling desolate with them.

    46 At the noise of the capture of Babylon the earth is moved, and the cry is heard among the nations.

  • Jer 51:52-55
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    52 Therefore, behold, the days come, says the LORD, that I will execute judgment upon her graven images; and through all her land the wounded shall groan.

    53 Though Babylon should ascend to heaven, and though she should fortify the height of her strength, yet from Me shall destroyers come to her, says the LORD.

    54 A sound of a cry comes from Babylon, and great destruction from the land of the Chaldeans;

    55 Because the LORD has plundered Babylon, and destroyed out of her the great voice; when her waves roar like great waters, a noise is uttered.

  • Jer 51:40
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    40 I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with goats.

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

    48 Then the heaven and the earth, and all that is in them, shall sing for Babylon; for the destroyers shall come to her from the north, says the LORD.

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

  • Jer 51:28-38
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    28 Prepare against her the nations with the kings of the Medes, its captains, and all its rulers, and all the land of his dominion.

    29 And the land shall tremble and be in sorrow; for every purpose of the LORD shall be performed against Babylon, to make the land of Babylon a desolation without an inhabitant.

    30 The mighty men of Babylon have ceased to fight, they have remained in their strongholds; their might has failed; they became like women; they have burned her dwelling places; her bars are broken.

    31 One runner shall meet another, and one messenger to meet another, to show the king of Babylon that his city is taken wholly,

    32 And that the passages are blocked, the reeds they have burned with fire, and the men of war are terrified.

    33 For thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; The daughter of Babylon is like a threshing floor; it is time to thresh her; yet a little while, and the time of her harvest shall come.

    34 Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon has devoured me, he has crushed me, he has made me an empty vessel; he has swallowed me up like a monster, he has filled his belly with my delicacies, he has thrown me out.

    35 The violence done to me and to my flesh be upon Babylon, shall the inhabitant of Zion say; and my blood upon the inhabitants of Chaldea, shall Jerusalem say.

    36 Therefore thus says the LORD: Behold, I will plead your cause, and take vengeance for you; and I will dry up her sea and make her springs dry.

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

    38 They shall roar together like lions; they shall growl like lions' cubs.

  • Jer 50:13
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    13 Because of the wrath of the LORD it shall not be inhabited, but it shall be utterly desolate: everyone who passes by Babylon shall be astonished, and hiss at all her plagues.

  • Jer 51:7-8
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    7 Babylon has been a golden cup in the LORD's hand, that made all the earth drunk; the nations have drunk of her wine; therefore the nations are mad.

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

  • Isa 13:19
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    19 And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldeans' excellency, will be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.

  • Jer 50:15
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    15 Shout against her all around: she has surrendered: her foundations are fallen, her walls are thrown down: for it is the vengeance of the LORD: take vengeance upon her; as she has done, do unto her.

  • Jer 50:9-10
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    9 For, behold, I will raise and cause to come up against Babylon an assembly of great nations from the north country: and they shall set themselves in battle array against her; from there she shall be taken: their arrows shall be like those of a mighty expert warrior; none shall return empty.

    10 And Chaldea shall be a spoil: all that spoil her shall be satisfied, says the LORD.

  • Jer 50:1-2
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    1 The word that the LORD spoke against Babylon and against the land of the Chaldeans by Jeremiah the prophet.

    2 Declare among the nations and publish, and set up a banner; publish, and do not hide it: say, Babylon is taken, Bel is confounded, Merodach is broken in pieces; her idols are confounded, her images are broken in pieces.

  • Jer 51:12-13
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    12 Set up the banner upon the walls of Babylon, make the watch strong, set up the watchmen, prepare the ambushes; for the LORD has both devised and done what He spoke against the inhabitants of Babylon.

    13 You who dwell upon many waters, abundant in treasures, your end has come, and the measure of your covetousness.

  • Jer 51:57-58
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    57 I will make her princes, wise men, captains, rulers, and mighty men drunk, and they shall sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, says the King, whose name is the LORD of hosts.

    58 Thus says the LORD of hosts: The broad walls of Babylon shall be utterly broken, and her high gates shall be burned with fire; the people shall labor in vain, and the folk shall be weary.

  • Jer 50:28-30
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    28 The voice of those who flee and escape from the land of Babylon, to declare in Zion the vengeance of the LORD our God, the vengeance of his temple.

    29 Call together the archers against Babylon: all you that bend the bow, camp against it all around; let none of them escape: repay her according to her work; according to all that she has done, do unto her: for she has been proud against the LORD, against the Holy One of Israel.

    30 Therefore her young men shall fall in the streets, and all her men of war shall be cut off in that day, says the LORD.

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    4 Thus the slain shall fall in the land of the Chaldeans, and those thrust through in her streets.

  • Isa 14:4
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    4 That you will take up this proverb against the king of Babylon, and say, How has the oppressor ceased! the golden city ceased!

  • Ezek 26:17
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    17 And they shall take up a lamentation for you, and say to you: 'How are you destroyed, that were inhabited by seafaring men, the renowned city, which was strong in the sea, she and her inhabitants, who caused their terror to be on all that haunt it!'

  • Isa 21:9
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    9 And, behold, here comes a chariot of men with a pair of horsemen. And he answered and said, Babylon is fallen, is fallen; and all the carved images of her gods he has shattered to the ground.

  • Jer 25:11
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    11 And this whole land shall be a desolation and an astonishment; and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.

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    64 And you shall say, Thus shall Babylon sink, and shall not rise from the evil that I will bring upon her; and they shall be weary. Thus far are the words of Jeremiah.

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    43 The king of Babylon has heard the report of them, and his hands grew feeble: anguish took hold of him, and pangs as of a woman in labor.