Jeremiah 51:4
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New International Version (©2011)
They will fall down slain in Babylon, fatally wounded in her streets.

New Living Translation (©2007)
They will fall dead in the land of the Babylonians, slashed to death in her streets.

English Standard Version (©2001)
They shall fall down slain in the land of the Chaldeans, and wounded in her streets.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
"They will fall down slain in the land of the Chaldeans, And pierced through in their streets."

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
Thus the slain shall fall in the land of the Chaldeans, and they that are thrust through in her streets.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
Those who were slain will fall in the land of the Chaldeans, those who were pierced through, in her streets.

International Standard Version (©2012)
The slain will fall in the land of Chaldea, pierced through in her streets.

NET Bible (©2006)
Let them fall slain in the land of Babylonia, mortally wounded in the streets of her cities.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
Babylon's soldiers will fall down badly wounded in their streets. They will lie dead in their own land.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
Thus the slain shall fall in the land of the Chaldeans, and they that are thrust through in her streets.

American King James Version
Thus the slain shall fall in the land of the Chaldeans, and they that are thrust through in her streets.

American Standard Version
And they shall fall down slain in the land of the Chaldeans, and thrust through in her streets.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the slain shall fall in the land of the Chaldeans, and the wounded in the regions thereof.

Darby Bible Translation
And the slain shall fall in the land of the Chaldeans, and they that are thrust through in her streets.

English Revised Version
And they shall fall down slain in the land of the Chaldeans, and thrust through in her streets.

Webster's Bible Translation
Thus the slain shall fall in the land of the Chaldeans, and they that are thrust through in her streets.

World English Bible
They shall fall down slain in the land of the Chaldeans, and thrust through in her streets.

Young's Literal Translation
And fallen have the wounded in the land of the Chaldeans, And the pierced-through in her streets.

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 4. - In her streets; i.e. in the streets of Babylon.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Thus the slain shall fall in the land of the Chaldeans,.... By the sword, or by the arrows and darts of the Medes and Persians:

and they that are thrust through in her streets; either by the one or by the other, especially the latter, since they only are mentioned; See Gill on Jeremiah 50:30.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

4. (See on [999]Jer 49:26; [1000]Jer 50:30; [1001]Jer 50:37).

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Severe Judgment against Babylon
…3Against him that bends let the archer bend his bow, and against him that lifts himself up in his brigandine: and spare you not her young men; destroy you utterly all her host. 4Thus the slain shall fall in the land of the Chaldeans, and they that are thrust through in her streets. 5For Israel has not been forsaken, nor Judah of his God, of the LORD of hosts; though their land was filled with sin against the Holy One of Israel. …

Isaiah 13:15 Whoever is captured will be thrust through; all who are caught will fall by the sword.
Isaiah 14:19 But you are cast out of your tomb like a rejected branch; you are covered with the slain, with those pierced by the sword, those who descend to the stones of the pit. Like a corpse trampled underfoot,
Jeremiah 49:26 Surely, her young men will fall in the streets; all her soldiers will be silenced in that day," declares the LORD Almighty.
Jeremiah 50:30 Therefore, her young men will fall in the streets; all her soldiers will be silenced in that day," declares the LORD.
Jeremiah 50:37 A sword against her horses and chariots and all the foreigners in her ranks! They will become weaklings. A sword against her treasures! They will be plundered.