Jeremiah 51 · Verse 42

Jeremiah 51:42

The sea is come up upon Babylon: she is covered with the multitude of the waves thereof.
Jeremiah 51:42, King James Version

Jeremiah 51:42 in other translations

BSBThe sea has come up over Babylon; she is covered in turbulent waves.
WEBThe sea has come up on Babylon. She is covered with the multitude of its waves.
ASVThe sea is come up upon Babylon; she is covered with the multitude of the waves thereof.
YLTCome up against Babylon hath the sea, With a multitude of its billows it hath been covered.
DARBYThe sea is come up upon Babylon: she is covered with the multitude of its waves.
BBEThe sea has come up over Babylon; she is covered with the mass of its waves.
WebsterThe sea is come up upon Babylon: she is covered with the multitude of its waves.

What does Jeremiah 51:42 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
42. The sea--the host of Median invaders. The image (compare Jr 47:2; Is 8:7, 8) is appropriately taken from the Euphrates, which, overflowing in spring, is like a "sea" near Babylon (Jr 51:13, 32, 36).

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 42 The sea is come up - A multitude of foes have inundated the city.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Jeremiah 51:1-58

Babylon's doom; God's controversy with her; encouragements from thence to the Israel of God. (Jr 51:1-58) The confirming of this. (Jr 51:59-64) Verses 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…

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Jeremiah 51:42 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

עָלָ֥ה'a.Lahit will go upH5927
עַל\־'al-overH5921
בָּבֶ֖לba.VelBabylonH894
הַיָּ֑םhai.Yamthe seaH3220
בַּהֲמ֥וֹןba.ha.Monwith [the] tumult ofH1995
גַּלָּ֖יוga.Lavwaves itsH1530
נִכְסָֽתָה\׃nikh.Sa.tahit will be coveredH3680

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Cross references for Jeremiah 51:42

  • Isaiah 8:7-8

    Now therefore, behold, the Lord bringeth up upon 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: 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 thy land, O Immanuel.

  • Daniel 9:26

    And after threescore 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 unto the end of the war desolations are determined.

  • Psalms 65:7

    Which stilleth the noise of the seas, the noise of their waves, and the tumult of the people.

  • Revelation 17:15-16

    And he saith unto me, The waters which thou sawest, where the whore sitteth, are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues. And the ten horns which thou sawest upon the beast, these shall hate the whore, and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and burn her with fire.

  • Ezekiel 27:26-34

    Thy rowers have brought thee into great waters: the east wind hath broken thee in the midst of the seas. Thy riches, and thy fairs, thy merchandise, thy mariners, and thy pilots, thy calkers, and the occupiers of thy merchandise, and all thy men of war, that are in thee, and in all thy company which is in the midst of thee, shall fall into the midst of the seas in the day of thy ruin. The suburbs shall shake at the sound of the cry of thy pilots. And all that handle the oar, the mariners, and all the pilots of the sea, shall come down from their ships, they shall stand upon the land; …

  • Jeremiah 51:55

    Because the Lord hath 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:

  • Psalms 18:16

    He sent from above, he took me, he drew me out of many waters.

  • Luke 21:25

    And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring;

  • Psalms 18:4

    The sorrows of death compassed me, and the floods of ungodly men made me afraid.

  • Psalms 93:3

    The floods have lifted up, O Lord, the floods have lifted up their voice; the floods lift up their waves.

  • Psalms 42:7

    Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy waterspouts: all thy waves and thy billows are gone over me.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Ps 18:4,16; 42:7; 65:7; 93:3; Isa 8:7,8; Eze 27:26-34; Da 9:26
Lu 21:25; Re 17:15,16

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Context

  • Jeremiah 51:41

    How is Sheshach taken! and how is the praise of the whole earth surprised! how is Babylon become an astonishment among the nations!

  • Jeremiah 51:42

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

  • Jeremiah 51:43

    Her cities are a desolation, a dry land, and a wilderness, a land wherein no man dwelleth, neither doth any son of man pass thereby.

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Jeremiah 51:42 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Subió la mar sobre Babilonia; de la multitud de sus ondas fué cubierta.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
La mer est montée sur Babylone; elle a été couverte du tumulte de ses flots.
German
Elberfelder 1871
Das Meer ist heraufgestiegen über Babel; mit seiner Wellen Brausen ist es bedeckt.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
Ascendit super Babylonem mare: multitudine fluctuum ejus operta est.