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the Week of Proper 23 / Ordinary 28
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Jeremiah 51:54

There is the sound of a cry from Babylon, and of a great destruction from the land of the Chaldaeans:

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Persia;   War;  

Dictionaries:

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

Parallel Translations

Easy-to-Read Version
"We can hear people crying in Babylon. We hear the sound of people destroying things in the land of Babylon.
New Living Translation
"Listen! Hear the cry of Babylon, the sound of great destruction from the land of the Babylonians.
New American Standard Bible
The sound of an outcry from Babylon, And of great destruction from the land of the Chaldeans!
New Century Version
"Sounds of people crying are heard in Babylon. Sounds of people destroying things are heard in the land of the Babylonians.
New English Translation
Cries of anguish will come from Babylon, the sound of great destruction from the land of the Babylonians.
Update Bible Version
The sound of a cry from Babylon, and of great destruction from the land of the Chaldeans!
Webster's Bible Translation
A sound of a cry [cometh] from Babylon, and great destruction from the land of the Chaldeans:
Amplified Bible
The sound of an outcry [comes] from Babylon, And [the sound] of great destruction from the land of the Chaldeans!
English Standard Version
"A voice! A cry from Babylon! The noise of great destruction from the land of the Chaldeans!
World English Bible
The sound of a cry from Babylon, and of great destruction from the land of the Chaldeans!
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
The vois of a criere of Babiloyne, and greet sorewe of the lond of Caldeis,
English Revised Version
The sound of a cry from Babylon, and of great destruction from the land of the Chaldeans!
Berean Standard Bible
The sound of a cry comes from Babylon, the sound of great destruction from the land of the Chaldeans!
Contemporary English Version
The Lord said: Listen to the cries for help coming from Babylon. Everywhere in the country the sounds of destruction can be heard.
American Standard Version
The sound of a cry from Babylon, and of great destruction from the land of the Chaldeans!
Complete Jewish Bible
An agonized cry is heard from Bavel! Great destruction in the land of the Kasdim!
Darby Translation
The sound of a cry [cometh] from Babylon, and great destruction from the land of the Chaldeans;
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Hark! a cry from Babylon, and great destruction from the land of the Chaldeans!
King James Version (1611)
A sound of a crie commeth from Babylon, and great destruction from the land of the Caldeans.
New Life Bible
The sound of a cry comes from Babylon! A noise comes from the land of the Babylonians because much is being destroyed!
New Revised Standard
Listen!—a cry from Babylon! A great crashing from the land of the Chaldeans!
Geneva Bible (1587)
A sound of a cry commeth from Babel, and great destruction from the land of the Caldeans,
George Lamsa Translation
A sound of wailing comes from Babylon, and great destruction from the land of the Chaldeans
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
A voice of outcry from Babylon! And a great crash from the land of the Chaldeans!
Douay-Rheims Bible
The noise of a cry from Babylon, and great destruction from the land of the Chaldeans:
Revised Standard Version
"Hark! a cry from Babylon! The noise of great destruction from the land of the Chalde'ans!
Bishop's Bible (1568)
A piteous crye [shalbe hearde] from Babylon, and a great miserie from the lande of the Chaldees:
Good News Translation
The Lord says, "Listen to the sound of crying in Babylon, of mourning for the destruction in the land.
Christian Standard Bible®
The sound of a cry from Babylon!The sound of terrible destructionfrom the land of the Chaldeans!
Hebrew Names Version
The sound of a cry from Bavel, and of great destruction from the land of the Kasdim!
King James Version
A sound of a cry cometh from Babylon, and great destruction from the land of the Chaldeans:
Lexham English Bible
The sound of a cry for help from Babylon, and a great collapse from the land of the Chaldeans.
Literal Translation
A sound of a cry from Babylon, and great ruin from the land of Chaldeans!
Young's Literal Translation
A voice of a cry [is] from Babylon, And of great destruction from the land of the Chaldean.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
A piteous crie shall be herde from Babilon, and a greate mysery from the londe of the Caldees:
THE MESSAGE
"But now listen! Do you hear it? A cry out of Babylon! An unearthly wail out of Chaldea! God is taking his wrecking bar to Babylon. We'll be hearing the last of her noise— Death throes like the crashing of waves, death rattles like the roar of cataracts. The avenging destroyer is about to enter Babylon: Her soldiers are taken, her weapons are trashed. Indeed, God is a God who evens things out. All end up with their just deserts.
New King James Version
The sound of a cry comes from Babylon, And great destruction from the land of the Chaldeans,
New American Standard Bible (1995)
The sound of an outcry from Babylon, And of great destruction from the land of the Chaldeans!
Legacy Standard Bible
The sound of an outcry from Babylon,And of great destruction from the land of the Chaldeans!

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

Jeremiah 48:3-5, Jeremiah 50:22, Jeremiah 50:27, Jeremiah 50:43, Jeremiah 50:46, Isaiah 13:6-9, Isaiah 15:5, Zephaniah 1:10, Revelation 18:17-19

Reciprocal: Jeremiah 4:6 - and a great Jeremiah 46:12 - thy cry

Gill's Notes on the Bible

A sound of a cry [cometh] from Babylon,.... Of the inhabitants of it upon its being taken; which is said to denote the certainty of it, which was as sure as if the cry of the distressed was then heard:

and great destruction from the land of the Chaldeans; that is, the report of a great destruction there, was, or would be, carried from thence, and spread all over the world.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

A cry - i. e., the war-cry.


 
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