42The sea is come up on Babylon: she is covered with the multitude of the waves thereof.


In Context

39 In their heat I will make their feasts, and I will make them drunken, that they may rejoice, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, said the LORD.

40 I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with he goats.

41 How is Sheshach taken! and how is the praise of the whole earth surprised! how is Babylon become an astonishment among the nations!

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

43 Her cities are a desolation, a dry land, and a wilderness, a land wherein no man dwells, neither does any son of man pass thereby.

44 And I will punish Bel in Babylon, and I will bring forth out of his mouth that which he has swallowed up: and the nations shall not flow together any more to him: yes, the wall of Babylon shall fall.

Jeremiah 51:42 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

51:42The sea is come up upon Babylon: she is covered with the multitude of the waves thereof.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

51:42The sea will rise over Babylon; its roaring waves will cover her.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

51:42The sea is come up over Babylon: she is covered with the multitude of the waves thereof.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

51:42The sea is come up upon Babylon; she is covered with the multitude of the waves thereof.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

51:42The sea is come up upon Babylon: she is covered with the multitude of its waves.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

51:42The sea is come up upon Babylon: she is covered with the multitude of the waves thereof.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

51:42The sea is come up upon Babylon: she is covered with the multitude of its waves.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

51:42The sea is come up on Babylon; she is covered with the multitude of its waves.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

51:42Come up against Babylon hath the sea, With a multitude of its billows it hath been covered.