Parallel Verses
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
The sea is risen over Babylon, and hath covered her with his great 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.
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.
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 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? 42 The sea is risen over Babylon, and hath covered her with his great waves. 43 Her cities are laid waste, the land lieth unbuilded and void: it is a land where no man dwelleth, and where no man traveleth through.
Cross References
Isaiah 8:7-8
Behold, the Lord shall bring mighty and great floods of water upon them: namely, the king of the Assyrians with all his power. Which shall pour out his furiousness upon every man, and run over all their banks.
Daniel 9:26
After these sixty two weeks, shall Christ be slain, and they shall have no pleasure in him. Then shall there come a people with the prince, and destroy the city and the Sanctuary: and his end shall come as the water flood. But the desolation shall continue till the end of the battle.
Psalm 18:4
The sorrows of death compassed me, and the overflowings of ungodliness made me afraid. {TYNDALE: For the waves of death have closed me about, and the floods of Belial have feared me.}
Psalm 18:16
He shall send down from on high to fetch me, and shall take me out of many waters. {TYNDALE: He sent from on high and fetched me, and plucked me out of mighty waters.}
Psalm 42:7
One deep calleth another with the voice of thy water-pipes, all thy waves and water floods are gone over me.
Psalm 65:7
who stilleth the raging of the sea, the roaring of his waves, and the madness of the people.
Psalm 93:3
The floods are risen, O LORD. The floods have lift up their voice; the floods lift up their waves.
Jeremiah 51:55
when the LORD destroyeth them, and when he driveth out the high stomach and proud boasting, wherewith they have been as furious as the waves of great water floods, and made great crakes with their words.
Ezekiel 27:26-34
"'Thy mariners were ever bringing unto thee out of many waters. But the east wind shall overbear thee into the midst of the sea:
Luke 21:25
And there shall be signs, in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars: and in the earth the people shall be in such perplexity, that they shall not tell which way to turn themselves. The sea and the waters shall roar,
Revelation 17:15-16
And he said unto me, "The waters which thou sawest, where the whore sitteth, are people, and folk, and nations, and tongues.