Parallel Verses
Amplified
“A drought on her waters, and they will dry up!
For it is a land of [worthless] idols,
And they are mad over fearsome idols [those objects of terror in which they foolishly trust].
New American Standard Bible
For it is a land of
And they are mad over fearsome idols.
King James Version
A drought is upon her waters; and they shall be dried up: for it is the land of graven images, and they are mad upon their idols.
Holman Bible
and they will be dried up.
For it is a land of carved images,
and they go mad because of terrifying things.
International Standard Version
A drought against her waters. They'll dry up. For it's a land of idols, and they go mad over their terrifying images.
A Conservative Version
A drought is upon her waters, and they shall be dried up. For it is a land of graven images, and they are mad over idols.
American Standard Version
A drought is upon her waters, and they shall be dried up; for it is a land of graven images, and they are mad over idols.
Bible in Basic English
A sword is on her waters, drying them up; for it is a land of images, and their minds are fixed on false gods.
Darby Translation
a drought is upon her waters, and they shall be dried up; for it is a land of graven images, and they are mad after frightful idols.
Julia Smith Translation
A sword upon her waters, and they shall be dried up: for it is a land of carved images, and in their terrors they will be foolish.
King James 2000
A drought is upon her waters; and they shall be dried up: for it is the land of graven images, and they are mad over their idols.
Lexham Expanded Bible
A drought [will come] against her waters, and they will dry up, for it [is] a land of images, and because of the frightful [objects], they act like madmen.
Modern King James verseion
A drought is on her waters; and they shall be dried up. For it is the land of idols, and they act madly with idols.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
The sword upon their waters: so that they shall be dried up. For the land worshippeth images, and delighteth in strange wonderful things.
NET Bible
A drought will come upon her land; her rivers and canals will be dried up. All of this will happen because her land is filled with idols. Her people act like madmen because of those idols they fear.
New Heart English Bible
A drought is on her waters, and they shall be dried up; for it is a land of engraved images, and they glory over idols.
The Emphasized Bible
A drought, is against her waters, And they shall be dried up, - For a land of images, it is, And with their shocking things, they act as men who are mad:
Webster
A drouth is upon her waters; and they shall be dried up: for it is the land of graven images, and they are mad upon their idols.
World English Bible
A drought is on her waters, and they shall be dried up; for it is a land of engraved images, and they are mad over idols.
Youngs Literal Translation
A sword is on her waters, and they have been dried up, For it is a land of graven images, And in idols they do boast themselves.
Themes
Babylon » Inhabitants of » Idolatrous
Idolatry » They who practice » Are mad upon it
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Jeremiah 50:38
Verse Info
Context Readings
A Message Concerning Babylon
37
“A sword against their horses and against their chariots
And against all the foreign troops that are in her midst,
And they will become [as weak and defenseless as] women!
A sword against her treasures, and they will be plundered!
“A drought on her waters, and they will dry up!
For it is a land of [worthless] idols,
And they are mad over fearsome idols [those objects of terror in which they foolishly trust].
“Therefore
The ostriches also will live there,
And it will never again be inhabited [with people]
Or lived in from generation to generation.
Cross References
Isaiah 44:27
“It is I who says to the deep, ‘Be dried up!’
And I will make your rivers dry.
Jeremiah 50:2
“Declare among the nations.
Lift up a signal [to spread the news]—publish and proclaim it,
Do not conceal it; say,
‘Babylon has been taken,
Bel [the patron god] has been shamed,
Babylon’s images have been shamed, her [worthless] idols have been thrown down.’
Jeremiah 51:47
“Therefore behold (listen carefully), the days are coming
When I will judge and punish the idols of Babylon;
Her whole land will be perplexed and shamed,
And all her slain will fall in her midst.
Jeremiah 51:52
“Therefore behold, the days are coming,” says the Lord,
“When I will judge and punish the idols [of Babylon],
And throughout her land the mortally wounded will groan.”
Revelation 16:12
Then the sixth angel poured out his bowl on the great river, the Euphrates; and its water was dried up, so that the way would be prepared for [the coming of] the kings from
Isaiah 44:25
Frustrating the signs and confounding the omens of boasters (false prophets),
Making fools out of
Counteracting the wise
And making their knowledge ridiculous,
Isaiah 46:1-7
Their idols are on the beasts [of burden] and on the cattle.
Your burdens [of idols] are loaded [on them],
Burdens on the weary animals.
Jeremiah 50:12
Your mother [Babylon] shall be greatly shamed;
She who gave you birth will be ashamed.
Behold, she will be the least of the nations,
A wilderness, a parched land and a desert.
Jeremiah 51:7
Babylon has been a golden cup in the Lord’s hand,
Intoxicating all the earth.
The nations drank her wine;
Therefore the nations have gone mad.
Jeremiah 51:32-36
And that the fords [across the Euphrates] have been blocked and [the ferries] seized,
And they have set the [great] marshes on fire,
And the men of war are terrified.
Jeremiah 51:44
“I will punish and judge Bel [the handmade god] in Babylon
And take out of his mouth what he has swallowed up [the stolen sacred articles and the captives of Judah and elsewhere].
The nations will no longer flow to him.
Yes, the wall of Babylon has fallen down!
Daniel 3:1-30
Nebuchadnezzar the king made a
Daniel 5:4
They drank the wine and praised the gods of gold and silver, of bronze, iron, wood and stone.
Habakkuk 2:18-19
“What profit is the carved image when its maker has formed it?
It is only a cast image, and a teacher of lies.
For its maker trusts in his own creation [as his god]
When he makes speechless idols.
Acts 17:16
Now while Paul was waiting for them at Athens, his spirit was greatly angered when he saw that the city was full of idols.
Revelation 17:5
And on her forehead a name was written, a mystery: “BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF PROSTITUTES (false religions, heresies) AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.”
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.