Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
A sound of battle is in the land, and of great destruction.
New American Standard Bible
And great destruction.
King James Version
A sound of battle is in the land, and of great destruction.
Holman Bible
a great destruction.
International Standard Version
The noise of battle is in the land, and great destruction.
American Standard Version
A sound of battle is in the land, and of great destruction.
Amplified
“The noise of battle is in the land,
And [the noise of] great destruction.
Bible in Basic English
There is a sound of war in the land and of great destruction.
Darby Translation
A sound of battle is in the land, and great destruction.
Julia Smith Translation
The voice of war in the land, and a great breaking.
King James 2000
A sound of battle is in the land, and of great destruction.
Lexham Expanded Bible
[The] sound of battle [is] in the land, and great destruction.
Modern King James verseion
A sound of battle is in the land, and of great ruin.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
There is gone about the land a cry of a slaughter and great murder, namely on this manner:
NET Bible
The noise of battle can be heard in the land of Babylonia. There is the sound of great destruction.
New Heart English Bible
A sound of battle is in the land, and of great destruction.
The Emphasized Bible
The sound of battle is in the earth, - And a great destruction.
Webster
A sound of battle is in the land, and of great destruction.
World English Bible
A sound of battle is in the land, and of great destruction.
Youngs Literal Translation
A noise of battle is in the land, and of great destruction.
Interlinear
Word Count of 20 Translations in Jeremiah 50:22
Verse Info
Context Readings
A Message Concerning Babylon
21 Go up against the land of Merathaim, even against it, and against the inhabitants of Pekod. Kill and utterly destroy after them, says LORD, and do according to all that I have commanded thee. 22 A sound of battle is in the land, and of great destruction. 23 How the hammer of the whole earth is cut apart and broken! How Babylon has become a desolation among the nations!
Cross References
Jeremiah 51:54-56
The sound of a cry from Babylon, and of great destruction from the land of the Chaldeans!
Isaiah 21:2-4
A grievous vision is declared to me. The treacherous man deals treacherously, and the destroyer destroys. Go up, O Elam. Besiege, O Media, all the sighing of it I have made to cease.