◄ Jeremiah 51:42 ►
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Good News Translation
The sea has rolled over Babylon and covered it with roaring waves.

New Revised Standard Version
The sea has risen over Babylon; she has been covered by its tumultuous waves.

Contemporary English Version
Babylon's enemies will rise like ocean waves and flood the city.

New American Bible
against Babylon the sea rises, she is overwhelmed by roaring waves!

Douay-Rheims Bible
The sea is come up over Babylon : she is covered with the multitude of the waves thereof.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

The sea is come up over Babylon : she is covered with the multitude of the waves thereof.

Psalm 18:4,16 The sorrows of death surrounded me: and the torrents of iniquity troubled me. . . .

Psalm 42:7 Deep calleth on deep, at the noise of thy flood-gates. All thy heights and thy billows have passed over me.

Psalm 65:7 Who troublest the depth of the sea, the noise of its waves. The Gentiles shall be troubled,

Psalm 93:3 The floods have lifted up, O Lord: the floods have lifted up their voice. The floods have lifted up their waves,

Isaiah 8:7,8 Therefore behold the Lord will bring upon them the waters of the river strong and many, the king of the Assyrians, and all his glory: and he shall come up over all his channels, and shall overflow all his banks. . . .

Ezekiel 27:26-34 Thy rowers have brought thee into great waters: the south wind hath broken thee in the heart of the sea. . . .

Daniel 9:26 And after sixty-two weeks Christ shall be slain: and the people that shall deny him shall not be his. And a people, with their leader, that shall come, shall destroy the city, and the sanctuary: and the end thereof shall be waste, and after the end of the war the appointed desolation.

Luke 21:25 And there shall be signs in the sun and in the moon and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, by reason of the confusion of the roaring of the sea, and of the waves:

Revelation 17:15,16 And he said to me: The waters which thou sawest, where the harlot sitteth, are peoples and nations and tongues. . . .

Context
Babylon's Punishment
…41How is Sesach taken, and the renowned one of all the earth surprised? How is Babylon become an astonishment among the nations? 42The sea is come up over Babylon : she is covered with the multitude of the waves thereof.43Her cities are become an astonishment, a land uninhabited and desolate, a land wherein none can dwell, nor son of man pass through it.…
Cross References
Isaiah 8:7
Therefore behold the Lord will bring upon them the waters of the river strong and many, the king of the Assyrians, and all his glory: and he shall come up over all his channels, and shall overflow all his banks.

Isaiah 8:8
And shall pass through Juda, overflowing, and going over shall reach even to the neck. And the stretching out of his wings shall fill the breadth of thy, land, O Emmanuel.

Isaiah 21:1
The burden of the desert of the sea. As whirlwinds come from the south, it cometh from the desert from a terrible land.

Jeremiah 51:55
Because the Lord hath laid Babylon waste, and destroyed out of her the great voice: and their wave shall roar like many waters: their voice hath made a noise:

Ezekiel 26:3
Therefore thus saith the Lord God: Behold I come against thee, O Tyre, and I will cause many nations to come up to thee, as the waves of the sea rise up.

Daniel 9:26
And after sixty-two weeks Christ shall be slain: and the people that shall deny him shall not be his. And a people, with their leader, that shall come, shall destroy the city, and the sanctuary: and the end thereof shall be waste, and after the end of the war the appointed desolation.

Daniel 11:10
And his sons shall be provoked, and they shall assemble a multitude of great forces: and he shall come with haste like a flood: and he shall return, and be stirred up, and he shall join battle with his force.

Jeremiah 51:41
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