Parallel Verses
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
The sword upon their waters: so that they shall be dried up. For the land worshippeth images, and delighteth in strange wonderful things.
New American Standard Bible
For it is a land of
And they are mad over fearsome idols.
King James Version
A drought is upon her waters; and they shall be dried up: for it is the land of graven images, and they are mad upon their idols.
Holman Bible
and they will be dried up.
For it is a land of carved images,
and they go mad because of terrifying things.
International Standard Version
A drought against her waters. They'll dry up. For it's a land of idols, and they go mad over their terrifying images.
A Conservative Version
A drought is upon her waters, and they shall be dried up. For it is a land of graven images, and they are mad over idols.
American Standard Version
A drought is upon her waters, and they shall be dried up; for it is a land of graven images, and they are mad over idols.
Amplified
“A drought on her waters, and they will dry up!
For it is a land of [worthless] idols,
And they are mad over fearsome idols [those objects of terror in which they foolishly trust].
Bible in Basic English
A sword is on her waters, drying them up; for it is a land of images, and their minds are fixed on false gods.
Darby Translation
a drought is upon her waters, and they shall be dried up; for it is a land of graven images, and they are mad after frightful idols.
Julia Smith Translation
A sword upon her waters, and they shall be dried up: for it is a land of carved images, and in their terrors they will be foolish.
King James 2000
A drought is upon her waters; and they shall be dried up: for it is the land of graven images, and they are mad over their idols.
Lexham Expanded Bible
A drought [will come] against her waters, and they will dry up, for it [is] a land of images, and because of the frightful [objects], they act like madmen.
Modern King James verseion
A drought is on her waters; and they shall be dried up. For it is the land of idols, and they act madly with idols.
NET Bible
A drought will come upon her land; her rivers and canals will be dried up. All of this will happen because her land is filled with idols. Her people act like madmen because of those idols they fear.
New Heart English Bible
A drought is on her waters, and they shall be dried up; for it is a land of engraved images, and they glory over idols.
The Emphasized Bible
A drought, is against her waters, And they shall be dried up, - For a land of images, it is, And with their shocking things, they act as men who are mad:
Webster
A drouth is upon her waters; and they shall be dried up: for it is the land of graven images, and they are mad upon their idols.
World English Bible
A drought is on her waters, and they shall be dried up; for it is a land of engraved images, and they are mad over idols.
Youngs Literal Translation
A sword is on her waters, and they have been dried up, For it is a land of graven images, And in idols they do boast themselves.
Themes
Babylon » Inhabitants of » Idolatrous
Idolatry » They who practice » Are mad upon it
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Jeremiah 50:38
Verse Info
Context Readings
A Message Concerning Babylon
37 The sword upon their horsemen and chariots, and upon all the common people that dwell under them: so that they all shall become like women. The sword upon their treasure: so that it shall be stolen away. 38 The sword upon their waters: so that they shall be dried up. For the land worshippeth images, and delighteth in strange wonderful things. 39 Therefore shall wild beasts, Apes, and Ostriches dwell therein: for there shall never man dwell there, neither shall any man have his habitation there for evermore.
Cross References
Isaiah 44:27
I say to the ground, "Be dry," and I dry up thy water floods.
Jeremiah 50:2
"Preach among the Gentiles, let your voice be heard, make a token: cry out, keep no silence, but say, 'Babylon shall be won, Bel shall be confounded, and Merodach shall be overcome. Yea their gods shall be brought to shame and their images shall stand in fear.'
Jeremiah 51:47
And lo, the time cometh that I will visit the images of Babylon, and the whole land shall be confounded; yea, and her slain shall lie in the midst of her.
Jeremiah 51:52
"Wherefore, behold, sayeth the LORD, the time cometh that I will visit the images of Babylon, and through the whole land they shall mourn and fall.
Revelation 16:12
And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates, and the water dried up, that the ways of the kings of the east should be prepared.
Isaiah 44:25
I destroy the tokens of witches, and make the Soothsayers go wrong. As for the wise, I turn them backward, and make their cunning foolishness.
Isaiah 46:1-7
Bel is fallen, and Nebo is broken down: whose images were a burden for the beasts and cattle, to overladen them, and to make them weary.
Jeremiah 50:12
Your mothers shall be sore confounded; and they that bare you, shall come to shame. She shall be the least set by among the nations, void, waste, and dried up.
Jeremiah 51:7
"Babylon hath been in the LORD's hand a golden cup, that maketh all lands drunken. Of her wine have all people drunken, therefore are they out of their wits.
Jeremiah 51:32-36
the fords occupied; the fens burnt up; and the soldiers sore afraid.
Jeremiah 51:44
Moreover, I will visit Bel at Babylon: and the thing that he hath swallowed up, that same shall I pluck out of his mouth. The Gentiles also shall run no more unto him; yea, and the walls of Babylon shall fall.
Daniel 3:1-30
Nebuchadnezzar the king caused a golden Image to be made, which was sixty cubits high, and six cubits thick. This he made to be set up in the field of Dura, in the land of Babylon
Daniel 5:4
They drunk wine, and praised their Idols of gold, silver, copper, iron, wood and stone.
Habakkuk 2:18-19
What help then will the Image do, whom the workman hath fashioned? Or the vain cast Image, wherein because the craftsmen putteth his trust, therefore maketh he dumb Idols?
Acts 17:16
While Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit was moved in him to see the city given to worshipping of images.
Revelation 17:5
And in her forehead was a name written, a mystery: "Great Babylon, the mother of whoredom and abominations of the earth."
Revelation 17:15-16
And he said unto me, "The waters which thou sawest, where the whore sitteth, are people, and folk, and nations, and tongues.