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Jeremiah 51:42 KJV
Jeremiah · chapter 51 · verse 42
The sea is come up upon Babylon: she is covered with the multitude of the waves thereof.Jeremiah 51:42 · King James Version
Jeremiah 51:42 in context
40I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with he goats.
41How is Sheshach taken! and how is the praise of the whole earth surprised! how is Babylon become an astonishment among the nations!
42The sea is come up upon Babylon: she is covered with the multitude of the waves thereof.
43Her cities are a desolation, a dry land, and a wilderness, a land wherein no man dwelleth, neither doth any son of man pass thereby.
44And I will punish Bel in Babylon, and I will bring forth out of his mouth that which he hath swallowed up: and the nations shall not flow together any more unto him: yea, the wall of Babylon shall fall.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- multitudehâmôwna noise, tumult, crowdH1995 →
- BabylonBâbelBabel , including Babylonia and the Babylonian empireH894 →
- coveredkâçâhproperly, to plumpH3680 →
- seayâma sea or large body of waterH3220 →
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The particulars of this copious prophecy are dispersed and interwoven, and the same things left and returned to so often that it could not well be divided into parts, but we must endeavor to collect them under their proper heads. Let us then observe here, I.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 1-58