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Julia Smith Translation
And Babel was for heaps, a habitation of jackals, an astonishment and a hissing, from none inhabiting.
New American Standard Bible
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King James Version
And Babylon shall become heaps, a dwellingplace for dragons, an astonishment, and an hissing, without an inhabitant.
Holman Bible
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.
Darby Translation
And Babylon shall become heaps, a dwelling-place of jackals, an astonishment, and a hissing, without inhabitant.
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.
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Jeremiah 51:37
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A Message Concerning Babylon
36 For this, thus said Jehovah: Behold me pleading thy cause, and I took vengeance with thy vengeance; and I dried up her sea, and made her fountains dry. 37 And Babel was for heaps, a habitation of jackals, an astonishment and a hissing, from none inhabiting. 38 Together as lions shall they roar: they shook themselves as the lion's whelps.
Cross References
Revelation 18:2
And he cried with a great, strong voice, saying, She fell, Babylon the great fell, and became the dwelling of devils, and the prison of every unclean spirit, and the prison of every unclean and detested bird.
Jeremiah 18:16
To set their land for a desolation, eternal hissings; every one passing over it shall be astonished and shall shake with his head.
Jeremiah 25:9
Behold me sending, and I took all the families of the north, says Jehovah, to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babel, my servant, and I brought them against this land and against its inhabitants, and against all these nations round about, and I devoted them to destruction, and I set them for a desolation and for a hissing, and for perpetual wastes.
2 Chronicles 29:8
And the wrath of Jehovah will be upon Judah and Jerusalem, and he will give them to disquiet, to astonishment, and to hissing, according to what ye see with your eyes.
Isaiah 13:19-22
And Babel the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldees' grandeur was as God overthrowing Sodom and Gomorrah.
Isaiah 14:23
And I set it for the possession of the hedge-hog, and pools of water: and I swept her with the broom of desolation, says Jehovah of armies.
Isaiah 34:8-17
For a day of vengeance to Jehovah, a year of retributions for the contention of Zion.
Jeremiah 19:8
And I set this city for a desolation, and for hissing: every one passing over it shall be astonished and shall hiss over all her blows.
Jeremiah 25:12
And it was when seventy years were filled up, I will review over the king of Babel and upon this nation, says Jehovah, their iniquity, and upon the land of the Chaldeans, and I set it for eternal desolations
Jeremiah 25:18
Jerusalem and the cities of Judah and her kings, her chiefs, to give them for a waste and for a desolation, and for a hissing and for a cursing; as this day.
Jeremiah 29:18
And I pursued after them with the sword, with famine and with death, and I gave them for agitation to all the kingdoms of the earth, for a curse and for astonishment, and for hissing and for a reproach among all the nations which I thrust them away there:
Jeremiah 50:12-13
Your mother was greatly ashamed; she bearing you was put to shame: behold the last of the nations a desert, dryness and a sterile region.
Jeremiah 50:23-26
How was the hammer of all the earth cut off, and it will be broken! How was Babel for a desolation among the nations!
Jeremiah 50:38-40
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.
Jeremiah 51:25-26
Behold me against thee, thou destroying mountain, says Jehovah, destroying all the earth: and I stretched out my hand upon thee, and I rolled thee from the rocks, and I gave thee for a burnt mountain.
Jeremiah 51:29
And the earth shall shake and be wearied; for the purpose of Jehovah was set up against Babel, to set the land of Babel for a desolation from not being inhabited.
Lamentations 2:15-16
All passing by the way clapped their hands at thee; they hissed, and they will nod their head at the daughter of Jerusalem: This the city, they will say; the complete splendor of joy to all the earth.
Micah 6:16
The laws of Omri will be observed, and all the work of the house of Ahab, and ye will go in their counsels; so that I shall give thee for a desolation, and her inhabitants for hissing, and ye shall bear the reproach of my People.
Zephaniah 2:15
This the exulting city dwelling confidently, saying in her heart, I, and none besides me. How was she for a desolation, a piece of lying down for the beast! all passing by her shall hiss and wave his hand.
Revelation 18:21-23
And one strong angel lifted up a stone as a great millstone, and cast into the sea, saying, Thus with excitement shall Babylon, the great city, be cast down, and be found no more.