Jeremiah 51:41
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“How Sheshach has been captured! The praise of all the earth has been seized. What a horror Babylon has become among the nations!”
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“How Sheshach has been captured! The praise of all the earth has been seized. What a horror Babylon has become among the nations!”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“How is Sheshach taken! and how is the praise of the whole earth surprised! how is Babylon become an astonishment among the nations!”
King James Version · Public Domain“How is Sheshach taken! and the praise of the whole earth seized! how is Babylon become a desolation among the nations!”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“How hath Sheshach been captured, Yea, caught is the praise of the whole earth, How hath Babylon been for an astonishment among nations.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Jeremiah 51:41 — 15 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Deuteronomy 28:37You will become an object of horror, scorn, and ridicule among all the nations to which the LORD will drive you.
- 2 Chronicles 7:21And when this temple has become a heap of rubble, all who pass by it will be appalled and say, ‘Why has the LORD done such a thing to this land and to this temple?’
- Isaiah 13:19And Babylon, the jewel of the kingdoms, the glory of the pride of the Chaldeans, will be overthrown by God like Sodom and Gomorrah.
- Isaiah 14:4you will sing this song of contempt against the king of Babylon: How the oppressor has ceased, and how his fury has ended!
- Jeremiah 25:26all the kings of the north, both near and far, one after another—all the kingdoms on the face of the earth. And after all of them, the king of Sheshach will drink it too.
- Jeremiah 49:25How is the city of praise not forsaken, the town that brings Me joy?
- Jeremiah 50:23How the hammer of the whole earth lies broken and shattered! What a horror Babylon has become among the nations!
- Jeremiah 50:46At the sound of Babylon’s capture the earth will quake; a cry will be heard among the nations.
- Jeremiah 51:37Babylon will become a heap of rubble, a haunt for jackals, an object of horror and scorn, without inhabitant.
- Ezekiel 27:35All the people of the coastlands are appalled over you. Their kings shudder with fear; their faces are contorted.
- Daniel 2:38Wherever the sons of men or beasts of the field or birds of the air dwell, He has given them into your hand and has made you ruler over them all. You are that head of gold.
- Daniel 4:22you, O king, are that tree! For you have become great and strong; your greatness has grown to reach the sky, and your dominion extends to the ends of the earth.
- Daniel 4:30the king exclaimed, “Is this not Babylon the Great, which I myself have built by the might of my power as a royal residence and for the glory of my majesty?”
- Daniel 5:1Later, King Belshazzar held a great feast for a thousand of his nobles, and he drank wine with them.
- Revelation 18:10In fear of her torment, they will stand at a distance and cry out: “Woe, woe to the great city, the mighty city of Babylon! For in a single hour your judgment has come.”
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