Jeremiah 51:13
Good News Translation
That country has many rivers and rich treasures, but its time is up, and its thread of life is cut.

New Revised Standard Version
You who live by mighty waters, rich in treasures, your end has come, the thread of your life is cut.

Contemporary English Version
People of Babylon, you live along the Euphrates River and are surrounded by canals. You are rich, but now the time has come for you to die.

New American Bible
You who dwell by mighty waters, rich in treasure, Your end has come, the time at which you shall be cut off!

Douay-Rheims Bible
O thou that dwellest upon many waters, rich in treasures, thy end is come for thy entire destruction.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

O thou that dwellest upon many waters, rich in treasures, thy end is come for thy entire destruction.

dwellest

Jeremiah 51:36 Therefore thus saith the Lord: Behold I will judge thy cause, and will take vengeance for thee, and I will make her sea desolate, I and will dry up her spring.

Revelation 17:1,15 And there came one of the seven angels who had the seven vials and spoke with me, saying: Come, I will shew thee the condemnation of the great harlot, who sitteth upon many waters: . . .

abundant

Jeremiah 50:37 A sword upon their horses, and upon their chariots, and upon all the people that are in the midst of her: and they shall become as women: a sword upon her treasures, and they shall be made a spoil.

Isaiah 45:3 And I will give thee hidden treasures, and the concealed riches of secret places: that thou mayest know that I am the Lord who call thee by thy name, the God of Israel.

Habakkuk 2:5-10 And as wine deceiveth him that drinketh it: so shall the proud man be, and he shall not be honoured: who hath enlarged his desire like hell: and is himself like death, and he is never satisfied: but will gather together unto him all nations, and heap together unto him all people. . . .

Revelation 18:11-17 And the merchants of the earth shall weep and mourn over her: for no man shall buy their merchandise any more. . . .

thine

Jeremiah 17:11 As the partridge hath hatched eggs which she did not lay: so is he that hath gathered riches, and not by right: in the midst of his days he shall leave them, and in his latter end he shall be a fool.

Jeremiah 50:27,31 Destroy all her valiant men, let them go down to the slaughter: woe to them, for their day is come, the time of their visitation. . . .

Genesis 6:18 And I will establish my covenant with thee, and thou shalt enter into the ark, thou and thy sons, and thy wife, and the wives of thy sons with thee.

Lamentations 4:18 Sade. Our steps have slipped in the way of our streets, our end draweth near: our days are fulfilled, for our end is come.

Ezekiel 7:2-12 And thou son of man, thus saith the Lord God to the land of Israel: The end is come, the end is come upon the four quarters of the land. . . .

Daniel 5:26 And this is the interpretation of the word. MANE: God hath numbered thy kingdom, and hath finished it.

Amos 8:2 These things the Lord shewed to me: and behold a hook to draw down the fruit.

1 Peter 4:7 But the end of all is at hand. Be prudent therefore and watch in prayers.

and the

Habakkuk 2:9-11 Woe to him that gathereth together an evil covetousness to his house, that his nest may be on high, and thinketh he may be delivered out of the hand of evil. . . .

Luke 12:19-21 And I will say to my soul: Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years. Take thy rest: eat, drink, make good cheer. . . .

2 Peter 2:3,14,15 And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you. Whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not: and their perdition slumbereth not. . . .

Jude 1:11-13 Woe unto them! For they have gone in the way of Cain: and after the error of Balaam they have for reward poured out themselves and have perished in the contradiction of Core. . . .

Revelation 18:19 And they cast dust upon their heads and cried, weeping and mourning, saying: Alas! alas! that great city, wherein all were made rich, that had ships at sea, by reason of her prices. For, in one hour she is made desolate.

Context
The Judgment on Babylon
12Upon the walls of Babylon set up the standard, strengthen the watch: set up the watchmen, prepare the ambushes: for the Lord hath both purposed, and done all that he spoke against the inhabitants of Babylon. 13O thou that dwellest upon many waters, rich in treasures, thy end is come for thy entire destruction.14The Lord of hosts hath sworn by himself, saying: I will fill thee with men as with locusts, and they shall lift up a joyful shout against thee.…
Cross References
Revelation 17:1
And there came one of the seven angels who had the seven vials and spoke with me, saying: Come, I will shew thee the condemnation of the great harlot, who sitteth upon many waters:

Isaiah 43:14
Thus saith the Lord your redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: For your sake I sent to Babylon, and have brought down all their bars, and the Chaldeans glorying in their ships.

Isaiah 45:3
And I will give thee hidden treasures, and the concealed riches of secret places: that thou mayest know that I am the Lord who call thee by thy name, the God of Israel.

Isaiah 57:17
For the iniquity of his covetousness I was angry, and I struck him: I hid my face from thee, and was angry: and he went away wandering in his own heart.

Habakkuk 2:9
Woe to him that gathereth together an evil covetousness to his house, that his nest may be on high, and thinketh he may be delivered out of the hand of evil.

Jeremiah 51:12
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