Jeremiah 51:42

In 11 translations

BSB

The sea has come up over Babylon; she is covered in turbulent waves.

KJV

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

WEB

The sea has come up on Babylon. She is covered with the multitude of its waves.

ASV

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

LSV

The sea has come up over Babylon, || She has been covered with a multitude of its billows.

YLT

Come up against Babylon hath the sea, With a multitude of its billows it hath been covered.

DBY

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

DRC

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

GNV

The sea is come vp vpon Babel: he is couered with the multitude of the waues thereof.

JPS

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

LXXE28:42

The sea has come up upon Babylon with the sound of its waves, and she is covered.

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WLC

עָלָ֥ה עַל־בָּבֶ֖ל הַיָּ֑ם בַּהֲמ֥וֹן גַּלָּ֖יו נִכְסָֽתָה׃

LXX-Br28:42

Ἀνέβη ἐπὶ Βαβυλῶνα ἡ θάλασσα ἐν ἤχῳ κυμάτων αὐτῆς, καὶ κατεκαλύφθη,

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• Isaiah 8:7–8the Lord will surely bring against them the mighty floodwaters of the Euphrates — the king of Assyria and all his pomp. It will overflow its channels and overrun its banks. It will pour into Judah, swirling and…
• Daniel 9:26Then after the sixty-two weeks the Messiah will be cut off and will have nothing. Then the people of the prince who is to come will destroy the city and the sanctuary. The end will come like a flood, and until the end…
• Psalms 93:3The floodwaters have risen, O LORD; the rivers have raised their voice; the seas lift up their pounding waves.
• Psalms 18:4The cords of death encompassed me; the torrents of chaos overwhelmed me.
• Psalms 65:7You stilled the roaring of the seas, the pounding of their waves, and the tumult of the nations.
• Psalms 42:7Deep calls to deep in the roar of Your waterfalls; all Your breakers and waves have rolled over me.
• Jeremiah 51:55For the LORD will destroy Babylon; He will silence her mighty voice. The waves will roar like great waters; the tumult of their voices will resound.
• 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…
• Psalms 18:16He reached down from on high and took hold of me; He drew me out of deep waters.
• Ezekiel 27:26–34Your oarsmen have brought you onto the high seas, but the east wind will shatter you in the heart of the sea. Your wealth, wares, and merchandise, your sailors, captains, and shipwrights, your merchants and all the…
• Luke 21:25There will be signs in the sun and moon and stars, and on the earth dismay among the nations, bewildered by the roaring of the sea and the surging of the waves.

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