Jeremiah 51:30 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

³⁰ The warriors of Babylon have given up fighting; they remain in their strongholds; their strength has failed; they have become women; her buildings are set on fire; her bars are broken.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³⁰ The mighty men of Babylon have forborn to fight, they have remained in their holds: their might hath failed; they became as women: they have burned her dwellingplaces; her bars are broken.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³⁰ The mighty warriors of Babylon have ceased to fight; they have remained in their holds. Their might has failed; they have become [weak and helpless] like women. Her dwelling places are burned up; her bars [and defenses generally] are broken.

American Standard Version (1901)

³⁰ The mighty men of Babylon have forborne to fight, they remain in their strongholds; their might hath failed; they are become as women: her dwelling-places are set on fire; her bars are broken.

Common English Bible

³⁰ Babylon’s warriors quit fighting; they hide in their fortifications. Their strength is worn out; their courage is gone! Babylon’s houses are burned down, and its gates are smashed.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³⁰ The strong ones of Babylon have ceased to do battle. They have lived in fortresses. Their health has been devoured, and they have become like women. Her tabernacles have been set ablaze; her bars have been broken.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³⁰ The valiant men of Babylon have forborne to fight, they have dwelt in holds: their strength hath failed and they are become as women: her dwelling-places are burnt, her bars are broken.

Jeremiah 51:30 Cross References

Psalm 107:16

For he shatters the doors of bronze and cuts in two the bars of iron.

Psalm 147:13

For he strengthens the bars of your gates; he blesses your children within you.

Psalm 76:5

The courageous were stripped of their spoil; they sank into sleep; none of the troops was able to lift a hand.

Isaiah 19:16

On that day the Egyptians will be like women and tremble with fear before the hand that the Lord of hosts raises against them.

Isaiah 47:14

See, they are like stubble; the fire consumes them; they cannot deliver themselves from the power of the flame. No coal for warming oneself is this, no fire to sit before!

Jeremiah 48:41

the towns shall be taken and the strongholds seized. The hearts of the warriors of Moab, on that day, shall be like the heart of a woman in labor.

Jeremiah 50:15

Raise a shout against her from all sides, “She has surrendered; her bulwarks have fallen; her walls are thrown down.” For this is the vengeance of the Lord: take vengeance on her; do to her as she has done.

Jeremiah 51:32

the fords have been seized, the marshes have been burned with fire, and the soldiers are in panic.

Jeremiah 51:57

I will make her officials and her sages drunk, also her governors, her deputies, and her warriors; they shall sleep a perpetual sleep and never wake, says the King, whose name is the Lord of hosts.

Lamentations 2:9

Her gates have sunk into the ground; he has ruined and broken her bars; her king and princes are among the nations; guidance is no more, and her prophets obtain no vision from the Lord.

Amos 1:5

I will break the gate bars of Damascus and cut off the inhabitants from the Valley of Aven and the one who holds the scepter from Beth-eden, and the people of Aram shall go into exile to Kir, says the Lord.

Nahum 3:13

Look at your troops: they are women in your midst. The gates of your land are wide open to your foes; fire has devoured the bars of your gates.

Revelation 18:10

they will stand far off, in fear of her torment, and say, “Alas, alas, the great city, Babylon, the mighty city! For in one hour your judgment has come.”