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Jeremiah 51:43

Her towns have become a waste, a dry and unwatered land, where no man has his living-place and no son of man goes by.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Persia;   War;  

Dictionaries:

- Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Greek Versions of Ot;   Jonah;   Persia, Persians;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Babylon;  

Encyclopedias:

- The Jewish Encyclopedia - Wilderness;  

Parallel Translations

Legacy Standard Bible
Her cities have become an object of horror,A parched land, and a desert,A land in which no man livesAnd through which no son of man passes.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Her cities have become an object of horror, A parched land and a desert, A land in which no man lives And through which no son of man passes.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Her cities are layde waste, the lande lyeth vnbuilded and voyde, it is a lande where no man dwelleth, and where no man trauyleth through.
Darby Translation
Her cities are become a desolation, a dry land, and a desert, a land wherein no one dwelleth, neither doth a son of man pass thereby.
New King James Version
Her cities are a desolation, A dry land and a wilderness, A land where no one dwells, Through which no son of man passes.
Literal Translation
Her cities have become a ruin, a dry land and a wilderness, a land in which no man dwells, nor does any son of man pass by it.
World English Bible
Her cities are become a desolation, a dry land, and a desert, a land in which no man dwells, neither does any son of man pass thereby.
King James Version (1611)
Her cities are a desolation, a dry land and a wildernes, a land wherein no man dwelleth, neither doeth any sonne of man passe thereby.
King James Version
Her cities are a desolation, a dry land, and a wilderness, a land wherein no man dwelleth, neither doth any son of man pass thereby.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Hir cities are layed waist, the londe lieth vnbuylded and voyde: it is a londe, where no man dwelleth, & where no ma traueleth thorow.
Amplified Bible
"Her cities have become an astonishing desolation and an object of horror, A parched land and a desert, A land in which no one lives, And through which no son of man passes.
American Standard Version
Her 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.
Revised Standard Version
Her cities have become a horror, a land of drought and a desert, a land in which no one dwells, and through which no son of man passes.
Update Bible Version
Her cities have become a desolation, a dry land, and a desert, a land wherein no man dwells, neither does any son of man pass thereby.
Webster's Bible Translation
Her cities are a desolation, a dry land, and a wilderness, a land in which no man dwelleth, neither doth [any] son of man pass by it.
New Century Version
Babylon's towns are ruined and empty. It has become a dry, desert land, a land where no one lives. People do not even travel through Babylon.
New English Translation
The towns of Babylonia have become heaps of ruins. She has become a dry and barren desert. No one lives in those towns any more. No one even passes through them.
Contemporary English Version
Horrible destruction will strike the nearby towns. The land will become a barren desert, where no one can live or even travel.
Complete Jewish Bible
Her cities have become desolate — parched, arid land, a land where no one lives; nobody even passes through.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Her cities are desolate: the land is dry and a wildernes, a land wherein no man dwelleth, neither doth the sonne of man passe thereby.
George Lamsa Translation
Her cities have become a horror, like a dry land and a wilderness, a land in which no man shall dwell, neither shall any son of man live in it.
Hebrew Names Version
Her cities are become a desolation, a dry land, and a desert, a land in which no man dwells, neither does any son of man pass thereby.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Her 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.
New Living Translation
Her cities now lie in ruins; she is a dry wasteland where no one lives or even passes by.
New Life Bible
Her cities have become an object of trouble, a dry land and a desert. It is a land where no man lives, and where no man passes through.
English Revised Version
Her 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.
Berean Standard Bible
Her cities have become a desolation, a dry and arid land, a land where no one lives, where no son of man passes through.
New Revised Standard
Her cities have become an object of horror, a land of drought and a desert, a land in which no one lives, and through which no mortal passes.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Her cities have become, an astonishment, A land parched up, and a waste plain, - A land wherein shall no man dwell, Nor pass through them a son of the earth-born!
Douay-Rheims Bible
Her cities are become an astonishment, a land uninhabited and desolate, a land wherein none can dwell, nor son of man pass through it.
Lexham English Bible
Her cities have become as an object of horror, a dry land and a wilderness, a land in which no person lives, nor does a son of humankind pass through it.
Easy-to-Read Version
Babylon will be like a dry, desert land. Its cities will be empty ruins. No one will live in those cities. No one will even travel through them.
English Standard Version
Her cities have become a horror, a land of drought and a desert, a land in which no one dwells, and through which no son of man passes.
New American Standard Bible
"Her cities have become an object of horror, A dry land and a desert, A land in which no one lives And through which no one of mankind passes.
Good News Translation
The towns have become a horrifying sight and are like a waterless desert, where no one lives or even travels.
Christian Standard Bible®
Her cities have become a desolation, a dry and arid land, a land where no one lives, where no human being passes through.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
The citees therof ben maad in to wondryng, the lond is maad vnhabitable and forsakun; the lond wherynne no man dwellith, and the sone of man schal not passe bi it.
Young's Literal Translation
Its cities have been for a desolation, A dry land, and a wilderness, A land -- none doth dwell in them, Nor pass over into them doth a son of man.

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

cities: Jeremiah 51:29, Jeremiah 51:37, Jeremiah 50:39, Jeremiah 50:40

a land: Jeremiah 2:6, Isaiah 13:20, Ezekiel 29:10, Ezekiel 29:11

Reciprocal: Isaiah 14:23 - make Jeremiah 50:12 - a wilderness Jeremiah 51:26 - shall not Jeremiah 51:47 - her whole Hosea 2:3 - a dry

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Her cities are a desolation, a dry land, and a wilderness,.... Which some understand of Babylon itself, divided into two parts by the river Euphrates running in the midst of it, called by Berosus f the inward and outward cities; though rather these design the rest of the cities in Chaldea, of which Babylon was the metropolis, the mother city, and the other her daughters, which should share the same fate with herself; be demolished, and the ground on which they stood become a dry, barren, uncultivated, and desert land:

a land wherein no man dwelleth, neither doth [any] son of man pass thereby; having neither inhabitant nor traveller; see

Jeremiah 50:12.

f Apud Joseph. contr. Apion, l. 1. c. 19.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

A wilderness - Or, a desert of sand.

A land wherein - Rather, “a land - no man shall dwell in them (i. e., its cities), and no human being shall pass through them.”


 
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