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


In Context

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.

40 I cause them to go down as lambs to slaughter, As rams with he-goats.

41 How hath Sheshach been captured, Yea, caught is the praise of the whole earth, How hath Babylon been for an astonishment among nations.

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

43 Its cities have been for a desolation, A dry land, and a wilderness, A land — none doth dwell in them, Nor pass over into them doth a son of man.

44 And I have seen after Bel in Babylon, And I have brought forth that which he swallowed — from his mouth, And flow no more unto him do nations, Also the wall of Babylon hath fallen.

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 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.