Jeremiah 51:42 The sea will rise over Babylon; its roaring waves will cover her.

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
The sea will rise over Babylon; its roaring waves will cover her.

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

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

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

Holman Christian Standard Bible
The sea has risen over Babylon; 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.

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.

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

Cross References

Isaiah 8:7
Now therefore, behold, the Lord brings up on them the waters of the river, strong and many, even the king of Assyria, and all his glory: and he shall come up over all his channels, and go over all his banks:

Isaiah 8:8
And he shall pass through Judah; he shall overflow and go over, he shall reach even to the neck; and the stretching out of his wings shall fill the breadth of your land, O Immanuel.

Isaiah 21:1
The burden of the desert of the sea. As whirlwinds in the south pass through; so it comes from the desert, from a terrible land.

Jeremiah 51:55
Because the LORD has spoiled Babylon, and destroyed out of her the great voice; when her waves do roar like great waters, a noise of their voice is uttered:

Ezekiel 26:3
Therefore thus said the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against you, O Tyrus, and will cause many nations to come up against you, as the sea causes his waves to come up.

Daniel 9:26
And after three score and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and to the end of the war desolations are determined.

Daniel 11:10
But his sons shall be stirred up, and shall assemble a multitude of great forces: and one shall certainly come, and overflow, and pass through: then shall he return, and be stirred up, even to his fortress.

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's 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.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

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).