The sea has come up on Babylon. She is covered with the multitude of its waves.
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The sea has come up on Babylon. She is covered with the multitude of its waves.
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The sea is come up upon Babylon: she is covered with the multitude of the waves thereof.
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The sea is come up upon Babylon; she is covered with the multitude of the waves thereof.
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Passages linked to Jeremiah 51:42 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Isaiah 8:7-8 now therefore, behold, the Lord brings upon them the mighty flood waters of the River: the king of Assyria and all his glory. It will come up over all its channels, and go over all its banks. It will sweep onward into Judah. It will overflow and pass through. It will reach even to the neck. The stretching out of its wings will fill the width of your land, Immanuel.
- Daniel 9:26 After the sixty-two weeks the Anointed One will be cut off, and will have nothing. The people of the prince who come will destroy the city and the sanctuary. Its end will be with a flood, and war will be even to the end. Desolations are determined.
- Psalms 18:4 The cords of death surrounded me. The floods of ungodliness made me afraid.
- Psalms 18:16 He sent from on high. He took me. He drew me out of many waters.
- Psalms 42:7 Deep calls to deep at the noise of your waterfalls. All your waves and your billows have swept over me.
- Psalms 65:7 You still the roaring of the seas, the roaring of their waves, and the turmoil of the nations.
- Psalms 93:3 The floods have lifted up, Yahweh, the floods have lifted up their voice. The floods lift up their waves.
- Jeremiah 51:55 For Yahweh lays Babylon waste, and destroys out of her the great voice! Their waves roar like many waters. The noise of their voice is uttered.
- Ezekiel 27:26-34 Your rowers have brought you into great waters. The east wind has broken you in the heart of the seas. Your riches, your wares, your merchandise, your mariners, your pilots, your repairers of ship seams, the dealers in your merchandise, and all your men of war, who are in you, with all your company which is among you, will fall into the heart of the seas in the day of your ruin. At the sound of the cry of your pilots, the pasture lands will shake. All who handle the oars, the mariners and all the pilots of the sea, will come down from their ships. They will stand on the land, and will cause their voice to be heard over you, and will cry bitterly. They will cast up dust on their heads. They will wallow in the ashes. They will make themselves bald for you, and clothe themselves with sackcloth. They will weep for you in bitterness of soul, with bitter mourning. In their wailing they will take up a lamentation for you, and lament over you, saying, ‘Who is there like Tyre, like her who is brought to silence in the middle of the sea?’ When your wares went out of the seas, you filled many peoples. You enriched the kings of the earth with the multitude of your riches and of your merchandise. In the time that you were broken by the seas, in the depths of the waters, your merchandise and all your company fell within you.
- Luke 21:25 There will be signs in the sun, moon, and stars; and on the earth anxiety of nations, in perplexity for the roaring of the sea and the waves;
- Revelation 17:15-16 He said to me, “The waters which you saw, where the prostitute sits, are peoples, multitudes, nations, and languages. The ten horns which you saw, and the beast, these will hate the prostitute, will make her desolate, will strip her naked, will eat her flesh, and will burn her utterly with fire.
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John Calvin 1540 · Public Domain THE Prophet here employs a comparison, in order more…
THE Prophet here employs a comparison, in order more fully to confirm his prophecy respecting the destruction of Babylon; for, as it was incredible that it could be subdued by the power or forces of men, he compares the calamity by which God would overwhelm it to a deluge. He then says that the army of the Persians and of the Medes would be like the sea, for it would irresistibly overflow; as when a storm rises, the sea swells, so he says the Medes and the Persians would come with such force, that Babylon would be overwhelmed with a deluge rather than with the forces of men. We now then understand the Prophet’s meaning, when he says that Babylon would be covered with waves when the Medes and the Persians came It then follows, —
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain The great army of the Medes and Persians.
The great army of the Medes and Persians.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Jer 51:42 The sea is come up upon Babylon:…
Jer 51:42 The sea is come up upon Babylon: she is covered with the multitude of the waves thereof.
Ver. 42. The sea is come up upon Babylon.] A sea of hostile forces; what wonder, therefore, though she be taken?
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain A multitude of enemies, that are like the sea…
A multitude of enemies, that are like the sea in which there is a multitude of waters, or that will overrun them as the sea overfloweth the shore, or any land into which it once breaketh.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And I will punish Bel in Babylon,.... The idol…
And I will punish Bel in Babylon,.... The idol of the Babylonians, who had a temple in Babylon, where he was worshipped: the same is called Belus by Aelianus (g), Curtius (h), and Pausanias (i); perhaps the same Herodian (k) calls Belis, and says some take him to be Apollo; for more of him; see Gill on Isa 46:1; and See Gill on Jer 50:2; who was punished when his temple was demolished, and plundered of its wealth; this golden image of Belus was broke to pieces, and the gold of it carried away. The Targum is,
"I will visit or punish them that worship Bel in Babylon:''
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and I will bring forth out of his mouth that which he hath swallowed up; the rich offerings made to him when victories were obtained; all success being ascribed to him; and the spoils of conquered enemies, which were brought and laid up in his temple, particularly the vessels of the sanctuary at Jerusalem, which were deposited there; see Ch2 36:7; and which were restored by Cyrus, Ezr 1:7; which restoration of them greatly fulfilled this prophecy; and was a refunding of what was lodged with him, or a vomiting what he had swallowed up; compare with this the story of "Bel and the dragon":
and the nations shall not flow together any more unto him; either to worship him, or bring their presents to him, to ingratiate themselves with the king of Babylon:
yea, the wall of Babylon shall fall; which Bel was not able to defend; and therefore should be deserted by his worshippers. The Targum renders it in the plural, the walls of Babylon; of which; see Gill on Jer 51:58. Some think that not the wall of the city is here meant: but the temple of Bel, which was as a wall or fortress to the city; but now should fall, and be so no more; since it is not easy to give a reason why mention here should be made of the fall of the walls of the city; and seeing express mention is made of this afterwards.
(g) Var. Hist. l. 13. c. 3. (h) Hist. l. 5. c. 1. (i) L. 1. sive Attica, p. 29. (k) Hist. l. 8. c. 7.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain The sea - A multitude of enemies.
The sea - A multitude of enemies.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 42. The sea is come up] A multitude…
Verse 42. The sea is come up] A multitude of foes have inundated the city.
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain By a grand metaphor the invading army is compared…
By a grand metaphor the invading army is compared to the sea.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Sea: numerous armies of Cyrus, or the waters of…
Sea: numerous armies of Cyrus, or the waters of the Euphrates let loose. (Calmet) --- In the days of Alexander [the Great], many tombs of the kings were inundated. (Strabo xv.)
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain The sea--the host of Median invaders. The image (compare…
The sea--the host of Median invaders. The image (compare Jer 47:2; Isa 8:7-8) is appropriately taken from the Euphrates, which, overflowing in spring, is like a "sea" near Babylon (Jer 51:13, Jer 51:32, Jer 51:36).
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 42. The sea is come up] the hostile army…
42. The sea is come up] the hostile army arriving in overwhelming force. Cp. Jer_46:7-8, Jer_47:2; Isa_17:12.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (42) The sea is come up upon Babylon .…
(42) The sea is come up upon Babylon . . .—The literal explanation of the words as referring to the foundation of the Euphrates adopted by some commentators is clearly inadmissible, and is at variance with the next verse. The prophet falls back on an image which he had used before (Jer_46:7), and which had become familiar through Isaiah (Isa_8:7-8; Isa_17:12), and speaks of Babylon as covered with the great sea of nations that were sweeping over her.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain The sea is come up, etc. It is not…
The sea is come up, etc. It is not clear whether this is to be taken literally or metaphorically (of the sea of nations, comp. ver. 55). Probably it is meant literally. It is said that the annual inundations of the Euphrates at present render many parts of the ruins of Babylon inaccessible.
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Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 51:42 The sea represents the armies that overwhelmed Babylon.…
51:42 The sea represents the armies that overwhelmed Babylon. The crashing waves symbolize the assault against the city.
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