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Jeremiah 51:42–43

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42The sea will rise over Babylon;

its roaring wavesa will cover her.

43Her towns will be desolate,

a dry and desertb land,

a land where no one lives,

through which no one travels.c

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Cross references

  1. aSee Ps 18:4; Isa 8:7
  2. bSee Isa 21:1
  3. cSee ver 29, 62; See Isa 13:20; Jer 2:6

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

The sea has come up on Babylon;

she is covered with its tumultuous waves.

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.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

The sea has risen over Babylon;

she is covered with its tumultuous waves.

Her cities have become a desolation,

an arid desert,

a land where no one lives,

where no human being even passes through.

NLTNew Living Translation

The sea has risen over Babylon;

she is covered by its crashing waves.

Her cities now lie in ruins;

she is a dry wasteland

where no one lives or even passes by.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

The sea has risen over Babylon,

she has been covered by the roar of its waves.

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.

KJV 1900King James Version

The sea is come up upon Babylon:

She is covered with the multitude of the waves thereof.

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.