Parallel Verses

Darby Translation

And Babylon shall become heaps, a dwelling-place of jackals, an astonishment, and a hissing, without inhabitant.

New American Standard Bible

Babylon will become a heap of ruins, a haunt of jackals,
An object of horror and hissing, without inhabitants.

King James Version

And Babylon shall become heaps, a dwellingplace for dragons, an astonishment, and an hissing, without an inhabitant.

Holman Bible

Babylon will become a heap of rubble,
a jackals’ den,
a desolation and an object of scorn,
without inhabitant.

International Standard Version

Babylon will become a heap of ruins, a refuge for jackals, a desolate place and an object of scorn.

A Conservative Version

And Babylon shall become heaps, a dwelling-place for jackals, an astonishment, and a hissing, without inhabitant.

American Standard Version

And Babylon shall become heaps, a dwelling-place for jackals, an astonishment, and a hissing, without inhabitant.

Amplified


“Babylon will become a heap [of ruins], a haunt and dwelling place of jackals,
An object of horror (an astonishing desolation) and a hissing [of scorn and amazement], without inhabitants.

Bible in Basic English

And Babylon will become a mass of broken walls, a hole for jackals, a cause of wonder and surprise, without a living man in it.

Julia Smith Translation

And Babel was for heaps, a habitation of jackals, an astonishment and a hissing, from none inhabiting.

King James 2000

And Babylon shall become a heap, a dwelling place for jackals, an astonishment, and a hissing, without an inhabitant.

Lexham Expanded Bible

And Babylon will become as a heap of stones, a lair of jackals, [an object of] horror, and [an object of] hissing, {without} inhabitants.

Modern King James verseion

And Babylon shall become heaps, a home for jackals, a horror and a hissing, without an inhabitant.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Babylon shall become a heap of stones, a dwelling place for dragons, a fearfulness and wondering, because no man dwelleth there.

NET Bible

Babylon will become a heap of ruins. Jackals will make their home there. It will become an object of horror and of hissing scorn, a place where no one lives.

New Heart English Bible

Babylon shall become heaps, a dwelling place for jackals, an astonishment, and a hissing, without inhabitant.

The Emphasized Bible

Thus shall Babylon become - Heaps A habitation of jackals An astonishment, and A hissing, Without inhabitant.

Webster

And Babylon shall become heaps, a dwelling-place for dragons, an astonishment, and a hissing, without an inhabitant.

World English Bible

Babylon shall become heaps, a dwelling place for jackals, an astonishment, and a hissing, without inhabitant.

Youngs Literal Translation

And Babylon hath been for heaps, A habitation of dragons, An astonishment, and a hissing, without inhabitant.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
And Babylon
בּבל 
babel 
Usage: 262

גּל 
Gal 
Usage: 34

מעין מעוןo 
Ma`own 
Usage: 19

תּנּים תּנּין 
Tanniyn 
Usage: 23

שׁמּה 
Shammah 
Usage: 39

and an hissing
שׁרקה 
Sh@reqah 
Usage: 7

References

Fausets

Hastings

Morish

Smith

Context Readings

A Message Concerning Babylon

36 Therefore thus saith Jehovah: Behold, I will plead thy cause, and take vengeance for thee; and I will dry up her sea, and make her spring dry. 37 And Babylon shall become heaps, a dwelling-place of jackals, an astonishment, and a hissing, without inhabitant. 38 They shall roar together like young lions, growl as lions' whelps.



Cross References

Revelation 18:2

And he cried with a strong voice, saying, Great Babylon has fallen, has fallen, and has become the habitation of demons, and a hold of every unclean spirit, and a hold of every unclean and hated bird;

Jeremiah 18:16

to make their land an astonishment, a perpetual hissing: every one that passeth by shall be astonished, and shake his head.

Jeremiah 25:9

behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, saith Jehovah, and I will send to Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will bring them against this land, and against the inhabitants thereof, and against all these nations round about; and I will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, and a hissing, and perpetual wastes.

2 Chronicles 29:8

Therefore the wrath of Jehovah has been upon Judah and Jerusalem, and he has delivered them to vexation, to desolation, and to hissing, as ye see with your eyes.

Isaiah 13:19-22

And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldeans' pride, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.

Isaiah 14:23

And I will make it a possession for the bittern, and pools of water; and I will sweep it with the besom of destruction, saith Jehovah of hosts.

Isaiah 34:8-17

For it is the day of Jehovah's vengeance, the year of recompenses for the controversy of Zion.

Jeremiah 19:8

And I will make this city an astonishment and a hissing; every one that passeth by shall be astonished and hiss because of all the plagues thereof.

Jeremiah 25:12

And it shall come to pass, when seventy years are accomplished, that I will visit on the king of Babylon and on that nation, saith Jehovah, their iniquity, and on the land of the Chaldeans, and I will make it perpetual desolations.

Jeremiah 25:18

Jerusalem, and the cities of Judah, and the kings thereof, and the princes thereof, to make them a waste, an astonishment, a hissing, and a curse, as it is this day;

Jeremiah 29:18

And I will pursue them with the sword, with the famine, and with the pestilence, and will give them over to be driven hither and thither into all the kingdoms of the earth, to be an execration, and an astonishment, and a hissing, and a reproach, among all the nations whither I will drive them:

Jeremiah 50:12-13

Your mother hath been sorely put to shame; she that bore you hath been covered with reproach: behold, she is become hindmost of the nations, a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert.

Jeremiah 50:23-26

How is the hammer of the whole earth cut asunder and broken! How is Babylon become an astonishment among the nations!

Jeremiah 50:38-40

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.

Jeremiah 51:25-26

Behold, I am against thee, mount of destruction, saith Jehovah, which destroyest all the earth; and I will stretch out my hand upon thee, and roll thee down from the rocks, and will make thee a burning mountain.

Jeremiah 51:29

And the land trembleth and is in pain; for the purposes of Jehovah against Babylon do stand, to make the land of Babylon a desolation, without inhabitant.

Lamentations 2:15-16

All that pass by clap their hands at thee; they hiss and shake their head at the daughter of Jerusalem: Is this the city which they called, The perfection of beauty, The joy of the whole earth?

Micah 6:16

For the statutes of Omri are kept, and all the works of the house of Ahab; and ye walk in their counsels: that I should make thee a desolation, and the inhabitants thereof a hissing; and ye shall bear the reproach of my people.

Zephaniah 2:15

This is the rejoicing city that dwelt in security, that said in her heart, I am, and there is none else beside me: how is she become a desolation, a couching-place for beasts! Every one that passeth by her shall hiss, shall wave his hand.

Revelation 18:21-23

And a strong angel took up a stone, as a great millstone, and cast it into the sea, saying, Thus with violence shall Babylon the great city be cast down, and shall be found no more at all;

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