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the Week of Proper 23 / Ordinary 28
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Jeremiah 51:42

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

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Persia;   War;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Sea, the;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Babylon;   Sea;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Chaldaea;   Sheshach;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Greek Versions of Ot;   Jonah;   Persia, Persians;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Babylon;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Kingdom of Judah;  

Parallel Translations

Legacy Standard Bible
The sea has come up over Babylon;She has been covered with its tumultuous waves.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"The sea has come up over Babylon; She has been engulfed with its tumultuous waves.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
The sea is risen ouer Babylon, & hath couered her with her great waues.
Darby Translation
The sea is come up upon Babylon: she is covered with the multitude of its waves.
New King James Version
The sea has come up over Babylon; She is covered with the multitude of its waves.
Literal Translation
The sea has come up over Babylon, she is covered with the multitude of its waves.
World English Bible
The sea is come up on Babylon; she is covered with the multitude of the waves of it.
King James Version (1611)
The sea is come vp vpon Babylon: she is couered with the multitude of the waues thereof.
King James Version
The sea is come up upon Babylon: she is covered with the multitude of the waves thereof.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
The see is rysen ouer Babilon, & hath couered her with his greate wawes.
Amplified Bible
"The sea has come up over Babylon; She has been engulfed with its tumultuous waves.
American Standard Version
The sea is come up upon Babylon; she is covered with the multitude of the waves thereof.
Revised Standard Version
The sea has come up on Babylon; she is covered with its tumultuous waves.
Update Bible Version
The sea has come up on Babylon; she's covered with the multitude of the waves thereof.
Webster's Bible Translation
The sea is come up upon Babylon: she is covered with the multitude of its waves.
New Century Version
The sea has risen over Babylon; its roaring waves cover her.
New English Translation
The sea has swept over Babylon. She has been covered by a multitude of its waves.
Contemporary English Version
Babylon's enemies will rise like ocean waves and flood the city.
Complete Jewish Bible
The sea has flooded Bavel, overwhelmed her with its raging waves.
Geneva Bible (1587)
The sea is come vp vpon Babel: he is couered with the multitude of the waues thereof.
George Lamsa Translation
The sea has come up upon Babylon; she is covered with the multitude of its waves.
Hebrew Names Version
The sea is come up on Bavel; she is covered with the multitude of the waves of it.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
The sea is come up upon Babylon; she is covered with the multitude of the waves thereof.
New Living Translation
The sea has risen over Babylon; she is covered by its crashing waves.
New Life Bible
The sea has come up over Babylon. She has been covered with its many big waves.
English Revised Version
The sea is come up upon Babylon: she is covered with the multitude of the waves thereof.
Berean Standard Bible
The sea has come up over Babylon; she is covered in turbulent waves.
New Revised Standard
The sea has risen over Babylon; she has been covered by its tumultuous waves.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
The sea, hath gone up over Babylon, - With the multitude of its rolling waves, is she covered.
Douay-Rheims Bible
The sea is come up over Babylon:she is covered with the multitude of the waves thereof.
Lexham English Bible
The sea has risen over Babylon, she has been covered by the roar of its waves.
Easy-to-Read Version
The sea will rise over Babylon. Its roaring waves will cover her.
English Standard Version
The sea has come up on Babylon; she is covered with its tumultuous waves.
New American Standard Bible
"The sea has come up over Babylon; She has been engulfed by its roaring waves.
Good News Translation
The sea has rolled over Babylon and covered it with roaring waves.
Christian Standard Bible®
The sea has risen over Babylon; she is covered with its turbulent waves.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And the see stiede on Babiloyne, it was hilid with the multitude of hise wawis.
Young's Literal Translation
Come up against Babylon hath the sea, With a multitude of its billows it hath been covered.

Contextual Overview

1 The Lord has said: See, I will make a wind of destruction come up against Babylon and against those who are living in Chaldaea; 2 And I will send men to Babylon to make her clean and get her land cleared: for in the day of trouble they will put up their tents against her on every side. 3 Against her the bow of the archer is bent, and he puts on his coat of metal: have no mercy on her young men, give all her army up to the curse. 4 And the dead will be stretched out in the land of the Chaldaeans, and the wounded in her streets. 5 For Israel has not been given up, or Judah, by his God, by the Lord of armies; for their land is full of sin against the Holy One of Israel. 6 Go in flight out of Babylon, so that every man may keep his life; do not be cut off in her evil-doing: for it is the time of the Lord's punishment; he will give her her reward. 7 Babylon has been a gold cup in the hand of the Lord, which has made all the earth overcome with wine: the nations have taken of her wine, and for this cause the nations have gone off their heads. 8 Sudden is the downfall of Babylon and her destruction: make cries of grief for her; take sweet oil for her pain, if it is possible for her to be made well. 9 We would have made Babylon well, but she is not made well: give her up, and let us go everyone to his country: for her punishment is stretching up to heaven, and lifted up even to the skies. 10 The Lord has made clear our righteousness: come, and let us give an account in Zion of the work of the Lord our God.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Psalms 18:4, Psalms 18:16, Psalms 42:7, Psalms 65:7, Psalms 93:3, Isaiah 8:7, Isaiah 8:8, Ezekiel 27:26-34, Daniel 9:26, Luke 21:25, Revelation 17:15, Revelation 17:16

Reciprocal: Isaiah 14:23 - make Isaiah 21:1 - the desert Isaiah 29:7 - the multitude Jeremiah 51:64 - Thus shall Ezekiel 26:3 - as the sea Daniel 11:10 - overflow

Gill's Notes on the Bible

The sea is come up upon Babylon,.... A vast army, comparable to the great sea for the multitude thereof, even the army of the Medes and Persians under Cyrus; so the Targum,

"a king with his armies, which are numerous like the waters of the sea, is come up against Babylon:''

she is covered with the multitude of the waves thereof; being surrounded, besieged, surprised, and seized upon by the multitude of soldiers in that army, which poured in upon it unawares. Some think here is a beautiful antithesis, between the inundation of Cyrus's army and the draining of the river Euphrates, by which means he poured in his forces into Babylon.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

By a grand metaphor the invading army is compared to the sea.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Jeremiah 51:42. The sea is come up — A multitude of foes have inundated the city.


 
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