Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
The sound of a cry from Babylon, and of great destruction from the land of the Chaldeans!
New American Standard Bible
And of great destruction from the land of the Chaldeans!
King James Version
A sound of a cry cometh from Babylon, and great destruction from the land of the Chaldeans:
Holman Bible
The sound of great destruction
from the land of the Chaldeans!
International Standard Version
"The sound of a cry is coming from Babylon, great destruction from the land of the Chaldeans.
American Standard Version
The sound of a cry from Babylon, and of great destruction from the land of the Chaldeans!
Amplified
The sound of an outcry [comes] from Babylon,
And [the sound] of great destruction from the land of the Chaldeans!
Bible in Basic English
There is the sound of a cry from Babylon, and of a great destruction from the land of the Chaldaeans:
Darby Translation
The sound of a cry cometh from Babylon, and great destruction from the land of the Chaldeans;
Julia Smith Translation
The voice of a cry from Babel, and a great breaking from the land of the Chaldeans:
King James 2000
A sound of a cry comes from Babylon, and great destruction from the land of the Chaldeans:
Lexham Expanded Bible
[The] sound of a cry for help from Babylon, and a great collapse from the land of [the] Chaldeans.
Modern King James verseion
A sound of a cry comes from Babylon, and great ruin from the land of the Chaldeans,
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
A piteous cry shall be heard from Babylon, and a great misery from the land of the Chaldeans:
NET Bible
Cries of anguish will come from Babylon, the sound of great destruction from the land of the Babylonians.
New Heart English Bible
"The sound of a cry from Babylon, and of great destruction from the land of the Chaldeans."
The Emphasized Bible
A voice of outcry from Babylon! And a great crash from the land of the Chaldeans!
Webster
A sound of a cry cometh from Babylon, and great destruction from the land of the Chaldeans:
World English Bible
The sound of a cry from Babylon, and of great destruction from the land of the Chaldeans!
Youngs Literal Translation
A voice of a cry is from Babylon, And of great destruction from the land of the Chaldean.
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Jeremiah 51:54
Verse Info
Context Readings
A Message Concerning Babylon
53 Though Babylon should mount up to heaven, and though she should fortify the height of her strength, yet from me destroyers shall come to her, says LORD. 54 The sound of a cry from Babylon, and of great destruction from the land of the Chaldeans! 55 For LORD lays Babylon waste, and destroys the great voice out of her, and their waves roar like many waters; the noise of their voice is uttered.
Phrases
Cross References
Jeremiah 50:22
A sound of battle is in the land, and of great destruction.
Jeremiah 48:3-5
The sound of a cry from Horonaim: Desolation and great destruction!
Jeremiah 50:46
At the noise of the taking of Babylon the earth trembles, and the cry is heard among the nations.
Isaiah 13:6-9
Wail ye, for the day of LORD is at hand. It shall come as destruction from the Almighty.
Isaiah 15:5
My heart cries out for Moab. Her nobles [flee] to Zoar, to Eglath-shelishi-yah. For they go up with weeping by the ascent of Luhith. For they raise up a cry of destruction in the way of Horonaim.
Jeremiah 50:27
Kill all her bullocks. Let them go down to the slaughter. Woe to them! For their day has come, the time of their visitation.
Jeremiah 50:43
The king of Babylon has heard the news of them, and his hands grow feeble. Anguish has taken hold of him, [and] pangs as of a woman in travail.
Zephaniah 1:10
And in that day, says LORD, there shall be the noise of a cry from the fish gate, and a wailing from the second quarter, and a great crashing from the hills.
Revelation 18:17-19
Because in one hour such great wealth was devastated. And every shipmaster, and every man who sails anywhere, and sailors, and as many as work by sea, stood from afar