It will never be inhabited or lived in from generation to generation; a nomad will not pitch his tent there, and shepherds will not let their flocks rest there.
Jeremiah 51:43 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised Her cities have become a desolation, an arid desert, a land where no one lives, where no human being even passes through. Dugang nga mga bersyonKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Her cities have become a desolation and a horror, a land of drought and a wilderness, a land in which no one lives, nor does any son of man pass through it. American Standard Version (1901) 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. Common English Bible Her towns are devastated; her land is scorched and barren, a place where no one lives or dares to pass through. Catholic Public Domain Version Her cities have become an astonishment, an uninhabited and desolate land, a land in which no one may live, nor may a son of man pass through it. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Her cities are become an astonishment, a land uninhabited and desolate, a land wherein none can dwell, nor son of man pass through it. |
It will never be inhabited or lived in from generation to generation; a nomad will not pitch his tent there, and shepherds will not let their flocks rest there.
Her palaces will be overgrown with thorns; her fortified cities, with thistles and briars. She will become a dwelling for jackals, an abode for ostriches.
But disaster will happen to you; you will not know how to avert it. And it will fall on you, but you will be unable to ward it off. Devastation will happen to you suddenly and unexpectedly.
They have made their land a horror, a perpetual object of scorn; , all who pass by it will be appalled and shake their heads.
They stopped asking, ‘Where is the Lord who brought us from the land of Egypt, who led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and ravines, through a land of drought and darkness, a land no one travelled through and where no one lived? ’
your mother will be utterly humiliated; she who bore you will be put to shame. Look! She will lag behind all the nations – an arid wilderness, a desert.
The earth quakes and trembles because the Lord’s intentions against Babylon stand: to make the land of Babylon a desolation, without inhabitant.
Babylon will become a heap of rubble, a jackals’ den, a desolation and an object of scorn, without inhabitant.
Say, “Lord, you have threatened to cut off this place so that no one will live in it #– #people or animals. Indeed, it will remain desolate for ever.”