Jeremiah 51:42
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New International Version (©2011)
The sea will rise over Babylon; its roaring waves will cover her.

New Living Translation (©2007)
The sea has risen over Babylon; she is covered by its crashing waves.

English Standard Version (©2001)
The sea has come up on Babylon; she is covered with its tumultuous waves.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
"The sea has come up over Babylon; She has been engulfed with its tumultuous waves.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
The sea is come up upon Babylon: she is covered with the multitude of the waves thereof.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
The sea has risen over Babylon; she is covered with its turbulent waves.

International Standard Version (©2012)
The sea will come up against Babylon, and she will be covered by wave upon wave.

NET Bible (©2006)
The sea has swept over Babylon. She has been covered by a multitude of its waves.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
What a horrifying sight Babylon will be to the nations! The sea will rise over Babylon, and its roaring waves will cover it.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
The sea has come up upon Babylon: she is covered with the multitude of its waves.

American King James Version
The sea is come up on 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.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The sea is come up over Babylon: she is covered with the multitude of the waves thereof.

Darby Bible Translation
The sea is come up upon Babylon: she is covered with the multitude of its waves.

English Revised Version
The sea is come up upon Babylon: she is covered with the multitude of the waves thereof.

Webster's Bible Translation
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.

Young's Literal Translation
Come up against Babylon hath the sea, With a multitude of its billows it hath been covered.

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 42. - 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.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

The sea is come up upon Babylon,.... A vast army, comparable to the great sea for the multitude thereof, even the army of the Medes and Persians under Cyrus; so the Targum,

"a king with his armies, which are numerous like the waters of the sea, is come up against Babylon:''

she is covered with the multitude of the waves thereof; being surrounded, besieged, surprised, and seized upon by the multitude of soldiers in that army, which poured in upon it unawares. Some think here is a beautiful antithesis, between the inundation of Cyrus's army and the draining of the river Euphrates, by which means he poured in his forces into Babylon.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

42. 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, 32, 36).

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Babylon's Punishment
…41How is Sheshach taken! and how is the praise of the whole earth surprised! how is Babylon become an astonishment among the nations! 42The sea is come up on Babylon: she is covered with the multitude of the waves thereof. 43Her cities are a desolation, a dry land, and a wilderness, a land wherein no man dwells, neither does any son of man pass thereby.

Isaiah 8:7 therefore the Lord is about to bring against them the mighty floodwaters of the Euphrates-- the king of Assyria with all his pomp. It will overflow all its channels, run over all its banks
Isaiah 8:8 and sweep on into Judah, swirling over it, passing through it and reaching up to the neck. Its outspread wings will cover the breadth of your land, Immanuel!"
Isaiah 21:1 A prophecy against the Desert by the Sea: Like whirlwinds sweeping through the southland, an invader comes from the desert, from a land of terror.
Jeremiah 51:55 The LORD will destroy Babylon; he will silence her noisy din. Waves of enemies will rage like great waters; the roar of their voices will resound.
Ezekiel 26:3 therefore this is what the Sovereign LORD says: I am against you, Tyre, and I will bring many nations against you, like the sea casting up its waves.
Daniel 9:26 After the sixty-two 'sevens,' the Anointed One will be put to death and will have nothing. The people of the ruler who will come will destroy the city and the sanctuary. The end will come like a flood: War will continue until the end, and desolations have been decreed.
Daniel 11:10 His sons will prepare for war and assemble a great army, which will sweep on like an irresistible flood and carry the battle as far as his fortress.