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Jeremiah 51:42

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

KJV

Ascendit super Babylonem mare : multitudine fluctuum ejus operta est.

Vulgate

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

ASV

עָלָ֥ה עַל בָּבֶ֖ל הַ/יָּ֑ם בַּ/הֲמ֥וֹן גַּלָּ֖י/ו נִכְסָֽתָה

Hebrew

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

Douay-Rheims

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In the original Hebrew

7 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

בָּבֶ֖ל
bbl
proper_noun · 262×
ה
h
noun · 393×
הֲמ֥וֹן
hmvn
noun · 83×
ו
v
noun · 34×
יַּ֥עַל
y'l
verb · 885×
מְכַסֶּ֣ה
mksh
verb · 152×
עַל
'l
noun · 5732×

Historic Christian voices

3 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Cross-references

  • Dan 9:26 — And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be wi
  • Dan 11:10 — But his sons shall be stirred up, and shall assemble a multitude of great forces: and one shall certainly come, and overflow, and pass through: then shall he return, and be stirred up, even to his for
  • Ezek 26:3 — Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Tyrus, and will cause many nations to come up against thee, as the sea causeth his waves to come up.
  • Isa 8:7 — Now therefore, behold, the Lord bringeth up upon them the waters of the river, strong and many, even the king of Assyria, and all his glory: and he shall come up over all his channels, and go over all
  • Isa 14:23 — I will also make it a possession for the bittern, and pools of water: and I will sweep it with the besom of destruction, saith the LORD of hosts.
  • Isa 21:1 — The burden of the desert of the sea. As whirlwinds in the south pass through; so it cometh from the desert, from a terrible land.
  • Rev 17:15 — And he saith unto me, The waters which thou sawest, where the whore sitteth, are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues.