Parallel Verses
International Standard Version
The sea will come up against Babylon, and she will be covered by wave upon wave.
New American Standard Bible
She has been engulfed with its tumultuous waves.
King James Version
The sea is come up upon Babylon: she is covered with the multitude of the waves thereof.
Holman Bible
she is covered with its turbulent waves.
A Conservative Version
The sea has come up upon Babylon. She is covered with the multitude of the waves thereof.
American Standard Version
The sea is come up upon Babylon; she is covered with the multitude of the waves thereof.
Amplified
“The sea has come up over Babylon;
She has been engulfed with its tumultuous waves.
Bible in Basic English
The sea has come up over Babylon; she is covered with the mass of its waves.
Darby Translation
The sea is come up upon Babylon: she is covered with the multitude of its waves.
Julia Smith Translation
The sea came up against Babel: with the multitude of rolling waves was she covered.
King James 2000
The sea has come up upon Babylon: she is covered with the multitude of its waves.
Lexham Expanded Bible
The sea has risen over Babylon, she has been covered by the roar of its waves.
Modern King James verseion
The sea has come up over Babylon; she is covered with the multitude of its waves.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
The sea is risen over Babylon, and hath covered her with his great waves.
NET Bible
The sea has swept over Babylon. She has been covered by a multitude of its waves.
New Heart English Bible
The sea has come up on Babylon; she is covered with the multitude of its waves.
The Emphasized Bible
The sea, hath gone up over Babylon, - With the multitude of its rolling waves, is she covered.
Webster
The sea is come up upon Babylon: she is covered with the multitude of its waves.
World English Bible
The sea is come up on Babylon; she is covered with the multitude of its waves.
Youngs Literal Translation
Come up against Babylon hath the sea, With a multitude of its billows it hath been covered.
Interlinear
`alah
Kacah
Word Count of 20 Translations in Jeremiah 51:42
Verse Info
Context Readings
A Message Concerning Babylon
41 "How Sheshak will be captured, and the prince of all the earth seized! How Babylon will become an object of horror among the nations! 42 The sea will come up against Babylon, and she will be covered by wave upon wave. 43 Her cities will become an object of horror, a dry land and a desert, a land in which no one lives, and through which no human being passes.
Cross References
Isaiah 8:7-8
watch out! The LORD God is about to bring the flood waters of the Euphrates River against them, mighty and strong.
Daniel 9:26
Then after the 62 weeks, the anointed one will be cut down (but not for himself). Then the people of the Coming Commander will destroy both the city and the Sanctuary. Its ending will come like a flood, and until the end there will be war, with desolations having been decreed.
Psalm 18:4
The cords of death entangled me; the rivers of Belial made me afraid.
Psalm 18:16
He reached down and took me; he drew me from many waters.
Psalm 42:7
Deep waters call out to what is deeper still; at the roar of your waterfalls all your breakers and your waves swirled over me.
Psalm 65:7
He calmed the roar of seas, the roaring of the waves, and the turmoil of the nations.
Psalm 93:3
The rivers have flooded, LORD; the rivers have spoken aloud, the rivers have lifted up their crushing waves.
Jeremiah 51:55
For the LORD is destroying Babylon, and he will make the loud sounds from her disappear. Their waves will roar like many waters, the noise of their voices will sound forth.
Ezekiel 27:26-34
But your rowers have brought you into dangerous waters. The east wind has broken you in the heart of the ocean!
Luke 21:25
"There will be signs in the sun, the moon, and the stars, and there will be distress on earth among the nations that are confused by the roaring of the sea and its waves.
Revelation 17:15-16
The angel also told me, "The bodies of water you saw, on which the prostitute is sitting, are nations, multitudes, nations, and languages.