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


In Context

39 But while they are aroused, I will set out a feast for them and make them drunk, so that they shout with laughter- then sleep forever and not awake," declares the Lord .

40 "I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams and goats.

41 "How Sheshach will be captured, the boast of the whole earth seized! What a horror Babylon will be among the nations!

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

43 Her towns will be desolate, a dry and desert land, a land where no one lives, through which no man travels.

44 I will punish Bel in Babylon and make him spew out what he has swallowed. The nations will no longer stream to him. And the wall of Babylon will 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 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.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

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