Jeremiah 51:42
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“The sea has come up over Babylon; she is covered in turbulent waves.”
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“The sea has come up over Babylon; she is covered in turbulent waves.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“The sea is come up upon Babylon: she is covered with the multitude of the waves thereof.”
King James Version · Public Domain“The sea is come up upon Babylon; she is covered with the multitude of the waves thereof.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“Come up against Babylon hath the sea, With a multitude of its billows it hath been covered.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Jeremiah 51:42 — 14 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Psalms 18:4The cords of death encompassed me; the torrents of chaos overwhelmed me.
- Psalms 18:16He reached down from on high and took hold of me; He drew me out of deep waters.
- Psalms 42:7Deep calls to deep in the roar of Your waterfalls; all Your breakers and waves have rolled over me.
- Psalms 65:7You stilled the roaring of the seas, the pounding of their waves, and the tumult of the nations.
- Psalms 93:3The floodwaters have risen, O LORD; the rivers have raised their voice; the seas lift up their pounding waves.
- Isaiah 8:7the 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.
- Isaiah 8:8It will pour into Judah, swirling and sweeping over it, reaching up to the neck; its spreading streams will cover your entire land, O Immanuel!
- 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.
- Ezekiel 26:3therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Behold, O Tyre, I am against you, and I will raise up many nations against you, as the sea brings up its waves.
- Ezekiel 27:26Your oarsmen have brought you onto the high seas, but the east wind will shatter you in the heart of the sea.
- Daniel 7:2Daniel declared: “In my vision in the night I looked, and suddenly the four winds of heaven were churning up the great sea.
- 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 there will be war; desolations have been decreed.
- 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.
- Revelation 17:15Then the angel said to me, “The waters you saw, where the prostitute was seated, are peoples and multitudes and nations and tongues.
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