Parallel Verses
New American Standard Bible
And
How Babylon has become an object of horror among the nations!
King James Version
How is Sheshach taken! and how is the praise of the whole earth surprised! how is Babylon become an astonishment among the nations!
Holman Bible
the praise
What a horror Babylon has become
among the nations!
International Standard Version
"How Sheshak will be captured, and the prince of all the earth seized! How Babylon will become an object of horror among the nations!
A Conservative Version
How Sheshach is taken, and the praise of the whole earth seized! How Babylon has become a desolation among the nations!
American Standard Version
How is Sheshach taken! and the praise of the whole earth seized! how is Babylon become a desolation among the nations!
Amplified
“How Sheshak (Babylon) has been captured,
And the praise of the whole earth been seized!
How Babylon has become an astonishing desolation and an object of horror among the nations!
Bible in Basic English
How is Babylon taken! and the praise of all the earth surprised! how has Babylon become a cause of wonder among the nations!
Darby Translation
How is Sheshach taken! and how is the praise of the whole earth seized! How is Babylon become an astonishment among the nations!
Julia Smith Translation
How was Sheshach taken and the praise of all the earth will be seized; how was Babel for a desolation among the nations!
King James 2000
How is Sheshach taken! and how is the praise of the whole earth surprised! how has Babylon become an astonishment among the nations!
Lexham Expanded Bible
How Sheshach is captured, and the glory of all the earth is seized! How Babylon has become as an [object of] horror among the nations!
Modern King James verseion
How Sheshach is captured! And how the praise of the whole earth is seized! How Babylon has become a horror among the nations!
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
O how was Sheshach won? O, how was the glory of the whole land taken? How happeneth it that Babylon is so wondered at among the Heathen?
NET Bible
"See how Babylon has been captured! See how the pride of the whole earth has been taken! See what an object of horror Babylon has become among the nations!
New Heart English Bible
How is Sheshach taken. and the praise of the whole earth seized. How is Babylon become a desolation among the nations.
The Emphasized Bible
How hath Sheshach, been captured! How hath the praise of all the earth linen seized! How hath Babylon become an astonishment among the nations!
Webster
How is Sheshach taken! and how is the praise of the whole earth surprised! how is Babylon become an astonishment among the nations!
World English Bible
How is Sheshach taken! and the praise of the whole earth seized! how is Babylon become a desolation among the nations!
Youngs Literal Translation
How hath Sheshach been captured, Yea, caught is the praise of the whole earth, How hath Babylon been for an astonishment among nations.
Themes
Babylon » Remarkable for » National greatness
Babylon » Empire of » Sheshach
Persia » Prophecies concerning
Sheshach » A symbolical name, apparently applied to the city of babylon
Interlinear
'erets
Shammah
References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Jeremiah 51:41
Verse Info
Context Readings
A Message Concerning Babylon
40
I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with he goats.
41
And
How Babylon has become an object of horror among the nations!
Cross References
Jeremiah 25:26
and to all the kings of the north wind, those of far and those of near, one with another and to all the kingdoms of the earth, which are upon the face of the earth and the king of Sheshach shall drink after them.
Isaiah 13:19
And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldees' excellency, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.
Jeremiah 49:25
How did they not forgive the city of praise, the city of my joy!
Deuteronomy 28:37
And thou shalt become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword among all nations where the LORD shall carry thee away.
2 Chronicles 7:21
And this house, which is high, shall be an astonishment to every one that passes by it, so that they shall say, Why has the LORD done thus unto this land and unto this house?
Isaiah 14:4
that thou shalt take up this proverb against the king of Babylon and say, How has the oppressor ceased! The city that covets gold has ceased!
Jeremiah 50:23
How is the hammer of the whole earth cut asunder and broken! How is Babylon become a desolation among the Gentiles!
Jeremiah 50:46
At the noise of the taking of Babylon, the earth was moved, and the cry was heard among the Gentiles.
Jeremiah 51:37
And Babylon shall become heaps, a dwellingplace for dragons, an astonishment, and a hissing, without an inhabitant.
Ezekiel 27:35
All the inhabitants of the isles shall be astonished at thee, and their kings shall be sore afraid; they shall be troubled in their countenance.
Daniel 2:38
And everything that is inhabited by children of men, beasts of the field, and fowls of the heaven, he has given into thine hand, and has made thee ruler over them all. Thou art this head of gold.
Daniel 4:22
it is thou, O king, that grew and made thyself strong; for thy greatness has grown and has reached unto heaven, and thy dominion to the end of the earth.
Daniel 4:30
the king spoke and said, Is this not the great Babylon that I have built for the house of the kingdom by the might of my power and for the glory of my greatness?
Daniel 5:1-5
Belshazzar the king made a great banquet to a thousand of his lords, and against the thousand he drank wine.
Revelation 18:10-19
Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas, that great city Babylon, that mighty city; for in one hour is thy judgment come!