Jeremiah 51:41 KJV — MannaFest

Jeremiah 51:41

How is Sheshach taken! and how is the praise of the whole earth surprised! how is Babylon become an astonishment among the nations!

KJV

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ASV

How is Sheshach taken! and the praise of the whole earth seized! how is Babylon become a desolation among the nations!

WEB

How Sheshach has been captured! The praise of all the earth has been seized. What a horror Babylon has become among the nations!

YLT

How hath Sheshach been captured, Yea, caught is the praise of the whole earth, How hath Babylon been for an astonishment among nations.

DBT

How is Sheshach taken! and how is the praise of the whole earth seized! How is Babylon become an astonishment among the nations!

About this book

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Jeremiah — The weeping prophet of Judah's final generation — 627 BC call under Josiah to the 586 BC fall of Jerusalem and into Egyptian exile. Fifty-two chapters of lament, confrontation, and covenant promise, with the New Covenant glimpsed at the book's theological apex.

Author: Jeremiah, son of Hilkiah, of the priestly family of Anathoth (1:1); Baruch the scribe assisted with dictation (36:4, 45:1)
Date: Ministry c. 627–580 BC; book compiled during and after the 586 BC exile

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17 verses on the floor

Jeremiah 25:26
And all the kings of the north, far and near, one with another, and all the kingdoms of the world, which are upon the face of the earth: and the king of Sheshach shall drink after them.
Isaiah 13:19
And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldees’ excellency, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.
Jeremiah 49:25
How is the city of praise not left, the city of my joy!
Deuteronomy 28:37
And thou shalt become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword, among all nations whither the Lord shall lead thee.
Jeremiah 51:37
And Babylon shall become heaps, a dwellingplace for dragons, an astonishment, and an hissing, without an inhabitant.

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Cross-references: OpenBible.info (CC-BY), based on the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

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Yet some shall rejoice in Babylon's fall, not as it is the misery of their fellow-creatures, but as it is the manifestation of the righteous judgment of God and as it opens the way for the release of God's captives; upon these accounts the heaven and the earth, and all that is in both, shall sing for Babylon (

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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Two steps out along the cross-reference floor, votes-ranked — destinations reached by more than one path rise (the text's own hubs). Every stop is a page.

JER 51:41DEU 28:37 JER 25:9
Reached by 3 independent paths from here.
JER 51:41DEU 28:37 JER 24:9
JER 51:41DEU 28:37 1KI 9:7-8
JER 51:41ISA 13:19 DAN 4:30
JER 51:41ISA 13:19 JER 49:18
JER 51:41ISA 13:19 DEU 29:23
JER 51:41ISA 13:19 GEN 19:24
JER 51:41ISA 13:19 ZEP 2:9

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