Jeremiah 51:42

KJV1611 – Modern English

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

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  • Isa 8:7-8 : 7 Now therefore, behold, the Lord brings up upon them the waters of the river, strong and many, even the king of Assyria, and all his glory: and he shall come up over all his channels, and go over all his banks: 8 And he shall pass through Judah; he shall overflow and go over, he shall reach even to the neck; and the stretching out of his wings shall fill the breadth of your land, O Immanuel.
  • Dan 9:26 : 26 And after sixty-two weeks, the Messiah shall be cut off, but not for Himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; its end shall be with a flood, and until the end of the war desolations are determined.
  • Luke 21:25 : 25 And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and on the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring;
  • Rev 17:15-16 : 15 Then he said to me, The waters which you saw, where the prostitute sits, are peoples, multitudes, nations, and languages. 16 The ten horns which you saw on the beast will hate the prostitute, make her desolate and naked, eat her flesh, and burn her with fire.
  • Jer 51:55 : 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.
  • Ezek 27:26-34 : 26 Your rowers have brought you into great waters: the east wind has broken you in the midst of the seas. 27 Your riches, and your markets, your merchandise, your mariners, and your pilots, your caulkers, and the occupiers of your merchandise, and all your men of war, who are in you, and in all your company which is in the midst of you, shall fall into the midst of the seas in the day of your ruin. 28 The suburbs shall shake at the sound of the cry of your pilots. 29 And all who handle 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 against you, 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 utterly bald for you, and gird themselves with sackcloth, and they shall weep for you with bitterness of heart and bitter wailing. 32 And in their wailing they shall take up a lamentation for you, and lament over you, saying, What city is like Tyre, like the one destroyed in the midst of the sea? 33 When your wares went forth out of the seas, you filled many people; you enriched the kings of the earth with the multitude of your riches and of your merchandise. 34 In the time when you shall be broken by the seas in the depths of the waters your merchandise and all your company in the midst of you shall fall.
  • Ps 18:4 : 4 The sorrows of death surrounded me, and the floods of ungodly men made me afraid.
  • Ps 18:16 : 16 He sent from above, he took me, he drew me out of many waters.
  • Ps 42:7 : 7 Deep calls unto deep at the noise of Your waterfalls: all Your waves and billows have gone over me.
  • Ps 65:7 : 7 Who stills the noise of the seas, the noise of their waves, and the tumult of the people.
  • Ps 93:3 : 3 The floods have lifted up, O LORD, 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 ascend to heaven, and though she should fortify the height of her strength, yet from Me shall destroyers come to her, says the LORD.

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

    55Because 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 51:41
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    41How is Sheshach taken! and how is the praise of the whole earth surprised! how has Babylon become an astonishment among the nations!

  • Jer 51:12-13
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    12Set 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.

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

  • Jer 51:36-37
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    36Therefore 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.

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

  • Jer 51:43-44
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    43Her cities are a desolation, a dry land and a wilderness, a land where no one dwells, nor does any son of man pass by.

    44And 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.

  • Ezek 26:17-19
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    17And 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!'

    18Now shall the isles tremble on the day of your fall; yes, the isles that are in the sea shall be troubled at your departure.

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

  • Jer 50:46
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    46At the noise of the capture of Babylon the earth is moved, 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; her whole land shall be confounded, and all her slain shall fall in her midst.

    48Then 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.

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

  • Jer 51:7-8
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    7Babylon 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.

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

  • Jer 51:31-34
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    31One runner shall meet another, and one messenger to meet another, to show the king of Babylon that his city is taken wholly,

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

    33For 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.

    34Nebuchadnezzar 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.

  • Isa 17:12
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    12Woe to the multitude of many people, which make a noise like the noise of the seas; and to the rushing of nations, that make a rushing like the rushing of mighty waters!

  • Jer 51:64
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    64And 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.

  • Jer 51:29
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    29And 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.

  • Jer 50:13
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    13Because 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.

  • Ezek 27:34
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    34In the time when you shall be broken by the seas in the depths of the waters your merchandise and all your company in the midst of you shall fall.

  • Jer 50:22-23
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    72%

    22A sound of battle is in the land, and of great destruction.

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

  • Jer 50:15
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    15Shout 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.

  • Ezek 27:26
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    26Your rowers have brought you into great waters: the east wind has broken you in the midst of the seas.

  • Ezek 26:3
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    3Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I am against you, O Tyre, and will cause many nations to come up against you, as the sea causes its waves to come up.

  • Jer 46:7-8
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    7Who is this that comes up like a flood, whose waters move like the rivers?

    8Egypt rises up like a flood, and his waters move like the rivers; and he says, I will go up, and will cover the earth; I will destroy the city and its inhabitants.

  • Job 30:14
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    14They came upon me as a wide breaking in of waters: in the desolation they rolled themselves upon me.

  • Ps 93:3-4
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    71%

    3The floods have lifted up, O LORD, the floods have lifted up their voice; the floods lift up their waves.

    4The LORD on high is mightier than the noise of many waters, yes, than the mighty waves of the sea.

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

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

  • Jer 50:38
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    38A drought is upon her waters; and they shall be dried up: for it is the land of carved images, and they are mad upon their idols.

  • Isa 21:1
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    1The prophecy concerning the desert by the sea. As whirlwinds in the south pass through, so it comes from the desert, from a dreadful land.

  • Ps 42:7
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    7Deep calls unto deep at the noise of Your waterfalls: all Your waves and billows have gone over me.

  • Isa 51:10
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    10Are you not the one who dried the sea, the waters of the great deep; who made the depths of the sea a way for the redeemed to pass over?

  • Isa 23:11
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    11He has stretched out his hand over the sea, he shook the kingdoms: the LORD has given a commandment against the merchant city, to destroy its strongholds.

  • Isa 24:14
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    14They shall lift up their voice, they shall sing for the majesty of the LORD, they shall cry aloud from the sea.

  • Ps 46:3
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    3Though its waters roar and are troubled, though the mountains shake with its swelling. Selah.

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

  • Jer 51:58
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    58Thus 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 50:41
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    41Behold, a people shall come from the north, and a great nation, and many kings shall be raised up from the ends of the earth.