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International Standard Version
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.
New American Standard Bible
A parched land and a desert,
A land in which
And through which no son of man passes.
King James Version
Her cities are a desolation, a dry land, and a wilderness, a land wherein no man dwelleth, neither doth any son of man pass thereby.
Holman Bible
a dry and arid land,
a land where no one lives,
where no human being passes through.
A Conservative Version
Her cities have become a desolation, a dry land, and a desert, a land in which no man dwells, nor does any son of man pass thereby.
American Standard Version
Her cities are become a desolation, a dry land, and a desert, a land wherein no man dwelleth, neither doth any son of man pass thereby.
Amplified
“Her cities have become an astonishing desolation and an object of horror,
A parched land and a desert,
A land in which no one lives,
And through which no son of man passes.
Bible in Basic English
Her towns have become a waste, a dry and unwatered land, where no man has his living-place and no son of man goes by.
Darby Translation
Her cities are become a desolation, a dry land, and a desert, a land wherein no one dwelleth, neither doth a son of man pass thereby.
Julia Smith Translation
Her cities were for a desolation, a land of dryness and a sterile region, a land not a man dwells in them, and not the son of man shall pass through them.
King James 2000
Her cities are a desolation, a dry land, and a wilderness, a land in which no man dwells, neither does any son of man pass by there.
Lexham Expanded Bible
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.
Modern King James verseion
Her cities are a desert, a dry land and a wilderness, a land in which no man dwells, nor does any son of man pass by it.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
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.
NET Bible
The towns of Babylonia have become heaps of ruins. She has become a dry and barren desert. No one lives in those towns any more. No one even passes through them.
New Heart English Bible
Her cities are become a desolation, a dry land, and a desert, a land in which no man dwells, neither does any son of man pass thereby.
The Emphasized Bible
Her cities have become, an astonishment, A land parched up, and a waste plain, - A land wherein shall no man dwell, Nor pass through them a son of the earth-born!
Webster
Her cities are a desolation, a dry land, and a wilderness, a land in which no man dwelleth, neither doth any son of man pass by it.
World English Bible
Her cities are become a desolation, a dry land, and a desert, a land in which no man dwells, neither does any son of man pass thereby.
Youngs Literal Translation
Its cities have been for a desolation, A dry land, and a wilderness, A land -- none doth dwell in them, Nor pass over into them doth a son of man.
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Jeremiah 51:43
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A Message Concerning Babylon
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. 44 I'll punish Bel in Babylon, and I'll make what he has swallowed come out of his mouth. The nations will no longer stream to him. Even the wall of Babylon will fall.
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Isaiah 13:20
It will never be inhabited or lived in through all generations; no Bedouin will pitch his tent there; no shepherds will make their flocks lie down there.
Jeremiah 2:6
"They didn't ask, "Where is the LORD who brought us up from the land of Egypt, who led us through the wilderness, through the land of desert and pits, through the land of dryness and deep darkness, a land that people don't pass through, and where no one lives?'
Jeremiah 51:29
The land quakes and writhes because the LORD's purposes against Babylon stand firm, to make the land of Babylon a waste without inhabitants.
Jeremiah 50:12
your mother will be greatly devastated, she who gave birth to you will be ashamed. She will become the least of the nations, a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert.
Jeremiah 50:39-40
Therefore the desert creatures along with hyenas will live there. They'll live in it with ostriches, but people won't live in it again. They won't inhabit it from generation to generation.
Jeremiah 51:37
Babylon will become a heap of ruins, a refuge for jackals, a desolate place and an object of scorn.
Ezekiel 29:10-11
therefore watch out! I'm coming to get you! I'm going to attack your waterways, and then I'm going to make the land of Egypt a total wasteland from the Aswan fortress to the border of Ethiopia!