Jeremiah 51:55

KJV1611 – Modern English

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.

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  • Ps 18:4 : 4 The sorrows of death surrounded me, and the floods of ungodly men made me afraid.
  • Ps 65:7 : 7 Who stills the noise of the seas, the noise of their waves, and the tumult of the people.
  • Ps 93:3-4 : 3 The floods have lifted up, O LORD, the floods have lifted up their voice; the floods lift up their waves. 4 The LORD on high is mightier than the noise of many waters, yes, than the mighty waves of the sea.
  • Isa 15:1 : 1 The burden of Moab. Because in the night Ar of Moab is laid waste and brought to silence; because in the night Kir of Moab is laid waste and brought to silence.
  • Isa 17:13 : 13 The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters: but God shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far away, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like a rolling thing before the whirlwind.
  • Isa 24:8-9 : 8 The mirth of tambourines ceases, the noise of those who rejoice ends, the joy of the harp ceases. 9 They shall not drink wine with a song; strong drink shall be bitter to those who drink it. 10 The city of confusion is broken down; every house is shut up, that no one may come in. 11 There is a crying for wine in the streets; all joy is darkened, the mirth of the land is gone.
  • Isa 47:5 : 5 Sit in silence and enter into darkness, O daughter of the Chaldeans, for you shall no more be called the lady of kingdoms.
  • Jer 25:10 : 10 Moreover I will take from them the voice of mirth, the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride, the sound of the millstones, and the light of the candle.
  • Jer 50:10-15 : 10 And Chaldea shall be a spoil: all that spoil her shall be satisfied, says the LORD. 11 Because you were glad, because you rejoiced, O you destroyers of my heritage, because you have grown fat as the heifer at grass, and bellow like bulls; 12 Your mother shall be greatly ashamed; she that bore you shall be confounded: behold, the hindermost of the nations shall be a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert. 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. 14 Put yourselves in battle array against Babylon all around: all you that bend the bow, shoot at her, spare no arrows: for she has sinned against the LORD. 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 51:38-39 : 38 They shall roar together like lions; they shall growl like lions' cubs. 39 In their heat I will make their feasts, and I will make them drunk, that they may rejoice and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, says the LORD.
  • Jer 51:42 : 42 The sea has come up upon Babylon; she is covered with the multitude of its waves.
  • Ezek 26:3 : 3 Therefore 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.
  • 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 : 15 Then he said to me, The waters which you saw, where the prostitute sits, are peoples, multitudes, nations, and languages.
  • Rev 18:22-23 : 22 And the sound of harpists, and musicians, and flutists, and trumpeters, shall be heard no more at all in you; and no craftsman, of any craft, shall be found any more in you; and the sound of a millstone shall be heard no more at all in you; 23 And the light of a lamp shall shine no more at all in you; and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no more at all in you: for your merchants were the great men of the earth; for by your sorceries were all nations deceived.

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  • Jer 51:52-54
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    52Therefore, 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.

    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;

  • Jer 51:41-45
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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!

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

    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.

    45My people, go out of her midst, and deliver every man his soul from the fierce anger of the LORD.

  • Jer 51:56-58
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    56Because the destroyer has come upon her, even upon Babylon, and her mighty men are taken, every one of their bows is broken; for the LORD God of recompenses shall surely repay.

    57I 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.

    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 50:46
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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 50:22-23
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    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 50:13
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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.

  • Jer 51:29-30
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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.

    30The 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.

  • 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.

  • Jer 51:36-38
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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.

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

  • Jer 51:6-9
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    6Flee out of the midst of Babylon, and deliver every man his soul; be not cut off in her iniquity; for this is the time of the LORD's vengeance; He will render to her a recompense.

    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.

    9We would have healed Babylon, but she cannot be healed; forsake her, and let us go everyone into his own country, for her judgment reaches unto heaven and is lifted up even to the skies.

  • 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 50:28
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    28The 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.

  • Jer 51:32-34
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    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.

  • 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 50:10
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    10And Chaldea shall be a spoil: all that spoil her shall be satisfied, says the LORD.

  • Jer 51:1
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    1Thus says the LORD: Behold, I will raise up against Babylon, and against those who dwell in the midst of those who rise up against Me, a destroying wind;

  • 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.

  • 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 50:30
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    30Therefore her young men shall fall in the streets, and all her men of war shall be cut off in that day, says the LORD.

  • Jer 51:24
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    24And I will render to Babylon, and to all the inhabitants of Chaldea, all their evil that they have done in Zion in your sight, says the LORD.

  • Ezek 26:17
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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!'

  • Jer 50:35
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    35A sword is upon the Chaldeans, says the LORD, and upon the inhabitants of Babylon, and upon her princes, and upon her wise men.

  • Zech 11:3
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    3There is the sound of the howling of the shepherds, for their glory is destroyed. The sound of the roaring of young lions, for the pride of Jordan is laid waste.

  • Jer 25:36
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    36A voice of the cry of the shepherds, and a wailing of the leaders of the flock, shall be heard: for the LORD has plundered their pasture.

  • 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 48:3
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    3A voice of crying shall be heard from Horonaim, plundering and great destruction.

  • Jer 50:26
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    26Come against her from the furthest border, open her storehouses: pile her up as heaps, and utterly destroy her: let nothing of her be left.

  • Ezek 26:12
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    12And they shall make a spoil of your riches, and make a prey of your merchandise; and they shall break down your walls, and destroy your pleasant houses; and they shall lay your stones and your timber and your dust in the midst of the water.

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    14Wail, you ships of Tarshish: for your strength is laid waste.