Jeremiah 50:38

In 11 translations

BSB

A drought is upon her waters, and they will be dried up. For it is a land of graven images, and the people go mad over idols.Or go mad with fear

KJV

A drought is upon her waters; and they shall be dried up: for it is the land of graven images, and they are mad upon their idols.

WEB

A drought is on her waters, and they will be dried up; for it is a land of engraved images, and they are mad over idols.

ASV

A drought is upon her waters, and they shall be dried up; for it is a land of graven images, and they are mad over idols.

LSV

A sword [is] on her waters, and they have been dried up, || For it [is] a land of carved images, || And they boast themselves in idols.

YLT

A sword [is] on her waters, and they have been dried up, For it [is] a land of graven images, And in idols they do boast themselves.

DBY

a drought is upon her waters, and they shall be dried up; for it is a land of graven images, and they are mad after frightful idols.

DRC

A drought upon her waters, and they shall be dried up: because it is a land of idols, and they glory in monstrous things.

GNV

A drought is vpon her waters, and they shall be dried vp: for it is the lande of grauen images, and they dote vpon their idoles.

JPS

A drought is upon her waters, and they shall be dried up; for it is a land of graven images, and they are mad upon things of horror.

LXXE27:38

and they shall be ashamed: for it is a land of graven images; and in the islands, where they boasted.

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WLC

חֹ֥רֶב אֶל־מֵימֶ֖יהָ וְיָבֵ֑שׁוּ כִּ֣י אֶ֤רֶץ פְּסִלִים֙ הִ֔יא וּבָאֵימִ֖ים יִתְהֹלָֽלוּ׃

LXX-Br27:38

ἐπὶ τῷ ὕδατι αὐτῆς, καὶ καταισχυνθήσονται, ὅτι γῆ τῶν γλυπτῶν ἐστι, καὶ ἐν ταῖς νήσοις, οὗ κατεκαυχῶντο.

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• Revelation 16:12And the sixth angel poured out his bowl on the great river Euphrates, and its water was dried up to prepare the way for the kings of the East.
• Isaiah 44:27who says to the depths of the sea, ‘Be dry, and I will dry up your currents,’
• Jeremiah 50:2“Announce and declare to the nations; lift up a banner and proclaim it; hold nothing back when you say, ‘Babylon is captured; Bel is put to shame; Marduk is shattered, her images are disgraced, her idols are broken in…
• Jeremiah 51:47Therefore, behold, the days are coming when I will punish the idols of Babylon. Her entire land will suffer shame, and all her slain will lie fallen within her.
• Jeremiah 51:52“Therefore, behold, the days are coming,” declares the LORD, “when I will punish her idols, and throughout her land the wounded will groan.
• Habakkuk 2:18–19What use is an idol, that a craftsman should carve it— or an image, a teacher of lies? For its maker trusts in his own creation; he makes idols that cannot speak. Woe to him who says to wood, ‘Awake!’ or to silent…
• Jeremiah 50:12your mother will be greatly ashamed; she who bore you will be disgraced. Behold, she will be the least of the nations, a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert.
• Isaiah 44:25who foils the signs of false prophets and makes fools of diviners, who confounds the wise and turns their knowledge into nonsense,
• Jeremiah 51:32–36The fords have been seized, the marshes set on fire, and the soldiers are terrified.” For this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: “The Daughter of Babylon is like a threshing floor at the time it is…
• Daniel 5:4As they drank the wine, they praised their gods of gold and silver, bronze and iron, wood and stone.
• Daniel 3:1–30King Nebuchadnezzar made a golden statue sixty cubits high and six cubits wide, and he set it up on the plain of Dura in the province of Babylon. Then King Nebuchadnezzar sent word to assemble the satraps, prefects,…
• Acts 17:16While Paul was waiting for them in Athens, he was deeply disturbed in his spirit to see that the city was full of idols.
• Jeremiah 51:7Babylon was a gold cup in the hand of the LORD, making the whole earth drunk. The nations drank her wine; therefore the nations have gone mad.
• Revelation 17:5And on her forehead a mysterious name was written: BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF PROSTITUTES AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.
• Revelation 17:15–16Then the angel said to me, “The waters you saw, where the prostitute was seated, are peoples and multitudes and nations and tongues. And the ten horns and the beast that you saw will hate the prostitute. They will…
• Isaiah 46:1–7Bel crouches; Nebo cowers. Their idols weigh down beasts and cattle. The images you carry are burdensome, a load to the weary animal. The gods cower; they crouch together, unable to relieve the burden; but they…

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