37And Babylon hath been for heaps, A habitation of dragons, An astonishment, and a hissing, without inhabitant.


In Context

34 Devoured us, crushed us, hath Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, He hath set us as an empty vessel, He hath swallowed us as a dragon, He hath filled his belly with my dainties, He hath driven us away.

35 My wrong, and that of my flesh is on Babylon, Say doth the inhabitant of Zion, And my blood is on the inhabitants of Chaldea, Say doth Jerusalem.

36 Therefore, thus said Jehovah: Lo, I am pleading thy cause, And I have avenged thy vengeance, And dried up its sea, and made its fountains dry.

37 And Babylon hath been for heaps, A habitation of dragons, An astonishment, and a hissing, without inhabitant.

38 Together as young lions they roar, They have shaken themselves as lions' whelps.

39 In their heat I make their banquets, And I have caused them to drink, so that they exult, And have slept a sleep age-during, And awake not — an affirmation of Jehovah.

Jeremiah 51:37 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

51:37And Babylon shall become heaps, a dwelling place for dragons, an astonishment, and an hissing, without an inhabitant.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

51:37Babylon will be a heap of ruins, a haunt of jackals, an object of horror and scorn, a place where no one lives.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

51:37And Babylon shall be reduced to heaps, a dwelling place for dragons, an astonishment and a hissing, because there is no inhabitant.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

51:37And Babylon shall become heaps, a dwelling-place for jackals, an astonishment, and a hissing, without inhabitant.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

51:37And Babylon shall become heaps, a dwelling-place of jackals, an astonishment, and a hissing, without inhabitant.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

51:37And Babylon shall become heaps, a dwelling place for jackals, an astonishment, and an hissing, without inhabitant.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

51:37And Babylon shall become heaps, a dwelling-place for dragons, an astonishment, and a hissing, without an inhabitant.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

51:37Babylon shall become heaps, a dwelling place for jackals, an astonishment, and a hissing, without inhabitant.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

51:37And Babylon shall become heaps, a dwelling place for dragons, an astonishment, and an hissing, without an inhabitant.