Jeremiah 51:28
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New International Version (©2011)
Prepare the nations for battle against her-- the kings of the Medes, their governors and all their officials, and all the countries they rule.

New Living Translation (©2007)
Bring against her the armies of the nations--led by the kings of the Medes and all their captains and officers.

English Standard Version (©2001)
Prepare the nations for war against her, the kings of the Medes, with their governors and deputies, and every land under their dominion.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
Consecrate the nations against her, The kings of the Medes, Their governors and all their prefects, And every land of their dominion.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
Prepare against her the nations with the kings of the Medes, the captains thereof, and all the rulers thereof, and all the land of his dominion.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
Set apart the nations for battle against her-- the kings of Media, her governors and all her officials, and all the lands they rule.

International Standard Version (©2012)
Consecrate the nations against her, the kings of the Medes, their governors, their prefects, and every land under their domination.

NET Bible (©2006)
Prepare the nations to do battle against her. Prepare the kings of the Medes. Prepare their governors and all their leaders. Prepare all the countries they rule to do battle against her.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
Prepare nations to attack Babylon. Prepare the king of the Medes, their governors, all their deputies, and all the countries that they rule.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
Prepare against her the nations with the kings of the Medes, their captains, and all their rulers, and all the land of their dominion.

American King James Version
Prepare against her the nations with the kings of the Medes, the captains thereof, and all the rulers thereof, and all the land of his dominion.

American Standard Version
Prepare against her the nations, the kings of the Medes, the governors thereof, and all the deputies thereof, and all the land of their dominion.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Prepare the nations against her, the kings of Media, their captains, and all their rulers, and all the land of their dominion.

Darby Bible Translation
Prepare nations against her, the kings of the Medes, their governors and all their rulers, yea, all the land of their dominion.

English Revised Version
Prepare against her the nations, the kings of the Medes, the governors thereof, and all the deputies thereof, and all the land of his dominion.

Webster's Bible Translation
Prepare against her the nations with the kings of Media, her captains, and all her rulers, and all the land of his dominion.

World English Bible
Prepare against her the nations, the kings of the Medes, its governors, and all its deputies, and all the land of their dominion.

Young's Literal Translation
Sanctify against it the nations with the kings of Media, Its governors and all its prefects, And all the land of its dominion.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

51:1-58 The particulars of this prophecy are dispersed and interwoven, and the same things left and returned to again. Babylon is abundant in treasures, yet neither her waters nor her wealth shall secure her. Destruction comes when they did not think of it. Wherever we are, in the greatest depths, at the greatest distances, we are to remember the Lord our God; and in the times of the greatest fears and hopes, it is most needful to remember the Lord. The feeling excited by Babylon's fall is the same with the New Testament Babylon, Re 18:9,19. The ruin of all who support idolatry, infidelity, and superstition, is needful for the revival of true godliness; and the threatening prophecies of Scripture yield comfort in this view. The great seat of antichristian tyranny, idolatry, and superstition, the persecutor of true Christians, is as certainly doomed to destruction as ancient Babylon. Then will vast multitudes mourn for sin, and seek the Lord. Then will the lost sheep of the house of Israel be brought back to the fold of the good Shepherd, and stray no more. And the exact fulfilment of these ancient prophecies encourages us to faith in all the promises and prophecies of the sacred Scriptures.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 28. - The captains... the rulers; rather, the governors... the viceroys (as ver. 23). Thereof refers to the land of Medea; his dominion to the King of Medea, as the suzerain of the inferior chiefs.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Prepare against her the nations, with the kings of the Medes,.... At the head of them, Darius and Cyrus. The Syriac version has it in the singular number, the king of the Modes:

the captains thereof, and all the rulers thereof, and all the land of his dominions; that is, the inhabitants of it, the common people, with their princes, nobles, governors, as captains of them, under Cyrus, their generalissimo.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

28. kings of … Medes—(Jer 51:11). The satraps and tributary kings under Darius, or Cyaxares.

his dominion—the king of Media's dominion.

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Babylon's Punishment
…27Set you up a standard in the land, blow the trumpet among the nations, prepare the nations against her, call together against her the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ashchenaz; appoint a captain against her; cause the horses to come up as the rough caterpillars. 28Prepare against her the nations with the kings of the Medes, the captains thereof, and all the rulers thereof, and all the land of his dominion. 29And the land shall tremble and sorrow: for every purpose of the LORD shall be performed against Babylon, to make the land of Babylon a desolation without an inhabitant. …

Jeremiah 25:14 They themselves will be enslaved by many nations and great kings; I will repay them according to their deeds and the work of their hands."
Jeremiah 25:25 all the kings of Zimri, Elam and Media;
Jeremiah 50:41 "Look! An army is coming from the north; a great nation and many kings are being stirred up from the ends of the earth.
Jeremiah 51:27 "Lift up a banner in the land! Blow the trumpet among the nations! Prepare the nations for battle against her; summon against her these kingdoms: Ararat, Minni and Ashkenaz. Appoint a commander against her; send up horses like a swarm of locusts.
Jeremiah 51:29 The land trembles and writhes, for the LORD's purposes against Babylon stand-- to lay waste the land of Babylon so that no one will live there.