Parallel Verses
Lexham Expanded Bible
The sea has risen over Babylon, she has been covered by the roar of its waves.
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.
International Standard Version
The sea will come up against Babylon, and she will be covered by wave upon wave.
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.
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 Sheshach is captured, and the glory of all the earth is seized! How Babylon has become as an [object of] horror among the nations! 42 The sea has risen over Babylon, she has been covered by the roar of its waves. 43 Her cities have become as an [object of] horror, a dry land and a wilderness, a land in which no person lives, nor does a son of humankind pass through it.
Cross References
Isaiah 8:7-8
therefore look! The Lord [is] bringing up the waters of the great and mighty river against them, the king of Assyria and all his glory. And he will rise above all his channels, and he will flow over all his banks.
Daniel 9:26
"And after the sixty and two weeks an anointed one shall be cut off, and {he shall have nothing}, and [the] people of the coming leader will destroy the city and the sanctuary, and its end [will be] with the flood and [on] to [the] end [there shall be] war; [these] desolations are determined.
Psalm 18:4
The ropes of death encircled me, and streams of ruin overwhelmed me.
Psalm 18:16
He reached from on high; he seized me. He drew me from many waters.
Psalm 42:7
Deep [is] calling to deep at the thunder of your waterfalls. All your breakers and your waves have passed over me.
Psalm 65:7
[who] stills [the] roar of [the] seas, the roar of their waves, and [the] commotion of [the] peoples,
Psalm 93:3
[The] rivers have lifted up, O Yahweh; [the] rivers have lifted up their {rumbling}; [the] rivers have lifted up their pounding.
Jeremiah 51:55
For Yahweh [is] devastating Babylon, and he obliterates [her] loud noise from her. Their waves roar like mighty waters, the roar of their voices resounds.
Ezekiel 27:26-34
" 'Into many waters the rowers brought you; [but] {the east wind} wrecked you in [the] heart of [the] seas.
Luke 21:25
"And there will be signs in the sun and moon and stars, and on the earth distress of nations in perplexity from the noise of the sea and [its] surging,
Revelation 17:15-16
And he said to me, "The waters that you saw, where the prostitute is seated, are peoples and crowds and nations and languages.