Babylon’s Punishment

Jeremiah 51:34

In 11 translations

BSB: “Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has devoured me; he has crushed me. He has set me aside like an empty vessel; he has swallowed me like a monster; he filled his belly with my delicacies and vomited me out.Or expelled me
KJV: Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon hath devoured me, he hath crushed me, he hath made me an empty vessel, he hath swallowed me up like a dragon, he hath filled his belly with my delicates, he hath cast me out.
WEB: “Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon has devoured me. He has crushed me. He has made me an empty vessel. He has, like a monster, swallowed me up. He has filled his mouth with my delicacies. He has cast me out.
ASV: Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon hath devoured me, he hath crushed me, he hath made me an empty vessel, he hath, like a monster, swallowed me up, he hath filled his maw with my delicacies; he hath cast me out.
LSV: Devoured us, crushed us, has Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, || He has set us [as] an empty vessel, || He has swallowed us as a dragon, || He has filled his belly with my delicacies, || He has driven us away.
YLT: Devoured us, crushed us, hath Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, He hath set us [as] an empty vessel, He hath swallowed us as a dragon, He hath filled his belly with my dainties, He hath driven us away.
DBY: Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon hath devoured me, he hath crushed me, he hath made me an empty vessel; he hath swallowed me up like a dragon, he hath filled his belly with my delicates, he hath cast me out.
DRC: Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon hath eaten me up, he hath devoured me: he hath made me as an empty vessel: he hath swallowed me up like a dragon, he hath filled his belly with my delicate meats, and he hath cast me out.
GNV: Nebuchad-nezzar the King of Babel hath deuoured me, and destroyed me: he hath made me an emptie vessel: he swallowed mee vp like a dragon, and filled his belly with my delicates, and hath cast me out.
JPS: Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon hath devoured me, he hath crushed me, he hath set me down as an empty vessel, he hath swallowed me up like a dragon, he hath filled his maw with my delicacies; he hath washed me clean.
LXXE28:34: He has devoured me, he has torn me asunder, airy darkness has come upon me; Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon has swallowed me up, as a dragon has he filled his belly with my delicacies.

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Written (Ketiv): אֲכָלָנוּ (“he devoured us”). Read aloud (Qere): אֲכָלַ֣נִי (“he devoured me”) — the form shown in the word-by-word reader.
Written (Ketiv): הֲמָמָנוּ (“he confused us”). Read aloud (Qere): הֲמָמַ֗נִי (“he confused me”) — the form shown in the word-by-word reader.
Written (Ketiv): הִצִּיגָנוּ (“he set down us”). Read aloud (Qere): הִצִּיגַ֙נִי֙ (“he set down me”) — the form shown in the word-by-word reader.
Written (Ketiv): בְּלָעָנוּ (“he swallowed us”). Read aloud (Qere): בְּלָעַ֙נִי֙ (“he swallowed me”) — the form shown in the word-by-word reader.
Written (Ketiv): הֱדִיחָנוּ׃ (“he rinsed out us”). Read aloud (Qere): הֱדִיחָֽנִי׃ (“he rinsed out me”) — the form shown in the word-by-word reader.

Spelling, punctuation and minor wording (5)

Leningrad Codex reads אֲכָלַ֣נִו; read aloud (Qere) reads אֲכָלַ֣נִי (“he devoured me”).
Leningrad Codex reads הֲמָמַ֗נִו; read aloud (Qere) reads הֲמָמַ֗נִי (“he confused me”).
Leningrad Codex reads הִצִּיגַ֙נִו֙; read aloud (Qere) reads הִצִּיגַ֙נִי֙ (“he set down me”).
Leningrad Codex reads בְּלָעַ֙נִו֙; read aloud (Qere) reads בְּלָעַ֙נִי֙ (“he swallowed me”).
Leningrad Codex reads הֱדִיחָֽנִו׃; read aloud (Qere) reads הֱדִיחָֽנִי׃ (“he rinsed out me”).

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Original-language editions

WLC: אכלנו הממנו נְבוּכַדְרֶאצַּר֮ מֶ֣לֶךְ בָּבֶל֒ הציגנו כְּלִ֣י רִ֔יק בלענו כַּתַּנִּ֔ין מִלָּ֥א כְרֵשׂ֖וֹ מֵֽעֲדָנָ֑י הדיחנו׃Read aloud as (qere): אֲכָלַ֣נִיRead aloud as (qere): הֲמָמַ֗נִיRead aloud as (qere): הִצִּיגַ֨נִי֙Read aloud as (qere): בְּלָעַ֨נִי֙Read aloud as (qere): הֱדִיחָֽנִי
LXX-Br28:34: Κατέφαγέ με, ἐμερίσατό με, κατέλαβέ με σκότος λεπτὸν, Ναβουχοδονόσορ βασιλεὺς Βαβυλῶνος κατέπιέ με, ὡς δράκων ἔπλησε τὴν κοιλίαν αὐτοῦ ἀπὸ τῆς τρυφῆς μου·

Who and where

👤 Nebuchadnezzar 📍 Babylon◆ Prophecies of Jeremiah

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In the reference works topics that cite this verse

Dragon Babylon Maw Delicate; Delicately Whale Dragon, The Persia Jackal Governor Make, Maker

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Cross-references most cited first

Jeremiah 50:17Israel is a scattered flock, chased away by lions. The first to devour him was the king of Assyria; the last to crush his bones was Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon.”
Jeremiah 51:44I will punish Bel in Babylon. I will make him spew out what he swallowed. The nations will no longer stream to him; even the wall of Babylon will fall.
Matthew 23:13Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You shut the kingdom of heaven in men’s faces. You yourselves do not enter, nor will you let in those who wish to enter.
Job 20:15He swallows wealth but vomits it out; God will force it from his stomach.
Isaiah 24:1–3Behold, the LORD lays waste the earth and leaves it in ruins. He will twist its surface and scatter its inhabitants— people and priest alike, servant and master, maid and mistress, buyer and seller, lender and…
Lamentations 1:1How lonely lies the city, once so full of people! She who was great among the nations has become a widow. The princess of the provinces has become a slave.
Ezekiel 36:3therefore prophesy and declare that this is what the Lord GOD says: Because they have made you desolate and have trampled you on every side, so that you became a possession of the rest of the nations and were taken up…
Lamentations 2:16All your enemies open their mouths against you. They hiss and gnash their teeth, saying, “We have swallowed her up. This is the day for which we have waited. We have lived to see it!”
Amos 8:4Hear this, you who trample the needy, who do away with the poor of the land,
Nahum 2:2For the LORD will restore the splendor of Jacob like the splendor of Israel, though destroyers have laid them waste and ruined the branches of their vine.
Jeremiah 51:49“Babylon must fall on account of the slain of Israel, just as the slain of all the earth have fallen because of Babylon.
Jeremiah 50:7All who found them devoured them, and their enemies said, ‘We are not guilty, for they have sinned against the LORD, their true pasture, the LORD, the hope of their fathers.’
Nahum 2:9–10“Plunder the silver! Plunder the gold!” There is no end to the treasure, an abundance of every precious thing. She is emptied! Yes, she is desolate and laid waste! Hearts melt, knees knock, bodies tremble, and every…
Jeremiah 48:11–12Moab has been at ease from youth, settled like wine on its dregs; he has not been poured from vessel to vessel or gone into exile. So his flavor has remained the same, and his aroma is unchanged. Therefore behold, the…
Proverbs 1:12let us swallow them alive like Sheol, and whole like those descending into the Pit.
Jeremiah 39:1–8In the ninth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the tenth month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon marched against Jerusalem with his entire army and laid siege to the city. And on the ninth day of the fourth month of…

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Verse numbering differs between Bibles

28:34 in some Bibles
51:34 in most Bibles