Parallel Verses
Julia Smith Translation
A runner shall run to meet a runner, and he announcing, to meet him announcing, to announce to the king of Babel that his city was taken from the extremity.
New American Standard Bible
And one
To tell the king of Babylon
That his city has been captured from end to end;
King James Version
One post shall run to meet another, and one messenger to meet another, to shew the king of Babylon that his city is taken at one end,
Holman Bible
and herald to meet herald,
to announce to the king of Babylon
that his city has been captured
from end to end.
International Standard Version
One runner runs to meet another runner, and one messenger to meet another messenger, to tell the king of Babylon that his city has been seized from one end to the other.
A Conservative Version
One post shall run to meet another, and one messenger to met another, to show the king of Babylon that his city is taken on every quarter.
American Standard Version
One post shall run to meet another, and one messenger to met another, to show the king of Babylon that his city is taken on every quarter:
Amplified
One courier runs to meet another,
And one messenger to meet another,
To tell the
That his city has been captured from end to end;
Bible in Basic English
One man, running, will give word to another, and one who goes with news will be handing it on to another, to give word to the king of Babylon that his town has been taken from every quarter:
Darby Translation
Courier runneth to meet courier, and messenger to meet messenger, to announce to the king of Babylon that his city is taken from end to end;
King James 2000
One post shall run to meet another, and one messenger to meet another, to show the king of Babylon that his city is taken on every side,
Lexham Expanded Bible
[one] runner runs to meet [another] runner, and [one] messenger to meet [another] messenger, to tell the king of Babylon that his city has been captured, {from end to end}.
Modern King James verseion
A runner shall run to meet a runner, and a herald to a herald, to announce to the king of Babylon that his city is captured from end to end;
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
One pursuant shall meet another; yea, one post shall come by another; to bring the king of Babylon tidings that his city is taken in on every side:
NET Bible
One runner after another will come to the king of Babylon. One messenger after another will come bringing news. They will bring news to the king of Babylon that his whole city has been captured.
New Heart English Bible
One runner will run to meet another, and one messenger to meet another, to show the king of Babylon that his city is taken on every quarter:
The Emphasized Bible
Runner to meet runner, shall they run, And teller to meet teller,-To tell the king of Babylon, That captured is his city at the end!
Webster
One post shall run to meet another, and one messenger to meet another, to show the king of Babylon that his city is taken at one end,
World English Bible
One runner will run to meet another, and one messenger to meet another, to show the king of Babylon that his city is taken on every quarter:
Youngs Literal Translation
Runner to meet runner doth run, And announcer to meet announcer, To announce to the king of Babylon, For, captured hath been his city -- at the extremity.
Interlinear
Ruwts
נגד
Nagad
tell, declare, shew, utter, shew forth, expound, messenger, report,
Usage: 370
Nagad
References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Jeremiah 51:31
Verse Info
Context Readings
A Message Concerning Babylon
30 The strong ones of Babel ceased to fight; they dwelt in fastnesses; their strength failed; they were for women: they burned her dwellings; her bars were broken. 31 A runner shall run to meet a runner, and he announcing, to meet him announcing, to announce to the king of Babel that his city was taken from the extremity. 32 And the passages were taken, and they burnt the ropes in fire, and the men of war trembled.
Phrases
Cross References
2 Samuel 18:19-31
And Ahimaaz, Zadok's son, said, I will run now and bring good news to the king that Jehovah judged him out of the hand of his enemies.
2 Chronicles 30:6
And the runners will go with the letters from the hand of the king and his chiefs in all Israel and Judah, and according to the command of the king, saying, Ye sons of Israel, turn back to Jehovah the God of Abraham, Isaak and Israel, and he will turn back to the escaping being left to you from the hand of the king of Assur.
1 Samuel 4:12-18
And a man of Benjamin will run from the array, and he will come to Shiloh in that day; and his garments rent and earth upon his head.
Esther 3:13-15
{ And the letters were sent by the hand of the runners to all the king's provinces, to cut off, to kill and to destroy, all the Jews, from the youth and even to the old man, the little ones and women, in one day, in the thirteenth to the twelfth month, (this the month Adar) and their spoil for plunder.}
Esther 8:10
And he will write in the name of the king Ahasuerus, and seal with the king's signet ring; and he will send letters by the hand of runners on horses riding the courser, the mules, sons of mares:
Esther 8:14
The runners riding the courser, the mules, went forth, being hastened and impelled by the word of the king. And the edict was given in Shushan the fortress.
Job 9:25
My days were swift above a runner: they fled, they saw not good.
Isaiah 21:3-9
For this, my loins were filled with pain: distress took hold of me as the pains of her bringing forth: I was shaken from hearing; I trembled from seeing
Isaiah 47:11-13
And evil came upon thee; thou shalt not know its dawn, and ruin shall fall upon thee; thou shalt not be able to expiate it, and desolation shall suddenly come upon thee; thou shalt not know.
Jeremiah 4:20
Breaking upon breaking was called; for all the land was laid waste: suddenly were my tents laid waste, my curtains in a moment
Jeremiah 50:24
I laid snares for thee and also thou wert taken, O Babel, and thou knewest not: thou wert found and thou wert also taken, for thou didst contend against Jehovah.
Jeremiah 50:43
The king of Babel heard their report, and his hands were relaxed: anguish seized him as the pain of her bringing forth.
Daniel 5:2-5
Belshazzar said, in tasting the wine, to bring in for the vessels of gold and silver that Nebuchadnezzar his father brought forth from the temple that was in Jerusalem; and in them the king and his nobles, his wives and his concubines, will drink.
Daniel 5:30
In that night Belshazzar king of the Chaldeans was killed.