Parallel Verses
Amplified
“The sea has come up over Babylon;
She has been engulfed with its tumultuous waves.
New American Standard Bible
She has been engulfed with its tumultuous waves.
King James Version
The sea is come up upon Babylon: she is covered with the multitude of the waves thereof.
Holman Bible
she is covered with its turbulent waves.
International Standard Version
The sea will come up against Babylon, and she will be covered by wave upon wave.
A Conservative Version
The sea has come up upon Babylon. She is covered with the multitude of the waves thereof.
American Standard Version
The sea is come up upon Babylon; she is covered with the multitude of the waves thereof.
Bible in Basic English
The sea has come up over Babylon; she is covered with the mass of its waves.
Darby Translation
The sea is come up upon Babylon: she is covered with the multitude of its waves.
Julia Smith Translation
The sea came up against Babel: with the multitude of rolling waves was she covered.
King James 2000
The sea has come up upon Babylon: she is covered with the multitude of its waves.
Lexham Expanded Bible
The sea has risen over Babylon, she has been covered by the roar of its waves.
Modern King James verseion
The sea has come up over Babylon; she is covered with the multitude of its waves.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
The sea is risen over Babylon, and hath covered her with his great waves.
NET Bible
The sea has swept over Babylon. She has been covered by a multitude of its waves.
New Heart English Bible
The sea has come up on Babylon; she is covered with the multitude of its waves.
The Emphasized Bible
The sea, hath gone up over Babylon, - With the multitude of its rolling waves, is she covered.
Webster
The sea is come up upon Babylon: she is covered with the multitude of its waves.
World English Bible
The sea is come up on Babylon; she is covered with the multitude of its waves.
Youngs Literal Translation
Come up against Babylon hath the sea, With a multitude of its billows it hath been covered.
Interlinear
`alah
Kacah
Word Count of 20 Translations in Jeremiah 51:42
Verse Info
Context Readings
A Message Concerning Babylon
41
“How Sheshak (Babylon) has been captured,
And the praise of the whole earth been seized!
How Babylon has become an astonishing desolation and an object of horror among the nations!
“The sea has come up over Babylon;
She has been engulfed with its tumultuous waves.
“Her cities have become an astonishing desolation and an object of horror,
A parched land and a desert,
A land in which no one lives,
And through which no son of man passes.
Cross References
Isaiah 8:7-8
Now therefore, listen carefully, the Lord is about to bring on them the waters of the [Euphrates] River, strong and abundant—
The king of Assyria and all his glory;
And it will rise over all its channels and canals and go far beyond its banks.
Daniel 9:26
Then after the sixty-two weeks [of years] the Anointed One will be cut off [and denied His Messianic kingdom] and have nothing [and no one to defend Him], and the people of the [other] prince who is to come will destroy the city and the sanctuary. Its end will come with a flood; even to the end there will be war; desolations are determined.
Psalm 18:4
The cords of death surrounded me,
And the streams of ungodliness and torrents of destruction terrified me.
Psalm 18:16
He reached from on high, He took me;
He drew me out of many waters.
Psalm 42:7
Deep calls to deep at the [thundering] sound of Your waterfalls;
All Your breakers and Your waves have rolled over me.
Psalm 65:7
Who stills the roaring of the seas,
The roaring of their waves,
And the tumult of the peoples,
Psalm 93:3
The floods have lifted up, O Lord,
The floods have lifted up their voice;
The floods lift up their pounding waves.
Jeremiah 51:55
For the Lord is going to destroy Babylon and make her a ruin,
And He will still her great voice [that hums with city life].
And the waves [of her conquerors] roar like great waters,
The noise of their voices is raised up [like the marching of an army].
Ezekiel 27:26-34
“Your rowers have brought you
Into great and deep waters;
The east wind has broken and shipwrecked you
In the heart of the seas.
Luke 21:25
Revelation 17:15-16
Then the angel said to me, “The waters which you saw, where the prostitute is seated, are peoples and multitudes and nations and languages.