Jeremiah 50:38 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

³⁸ A drought upon her waters, that they may be dried up! For it is a land of images, and they are mad over idols.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³⁸ A drought is upon her waters; and they shall be dried up: for it is the land of graven images, and they are mad upon their idols.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³⁸ A sword and a drought upon her waters, that they may be dried up! For it is a land of images, and they are mad over idols (objects of terror in which they foolishly trust).

American Standard Version (1901)

³⁸ A drought is upon her waters, and they shall be dried up; for it is a land of graven images, and they are mad over idols.

Common English Bible

³⁸ A sword against the water supplies so that they dry up. It is truly the land of idols, idols about which they have gone utterly mad!

Catholic Public Domain Version

³⁸ A drought is over her waters, and they will be dried up. For it is a land of graven images, and they glory in portents.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³⁸ A drought upon her waters, and they shall be dried up: because it is a land of idols, and they glory in monstrous things.

Jeremiah 50:38 Cross References

Genesis 8:1

But God remembered Noah and all the beasts and all the cattle that were with him in the ark. And God made a wind blow over the earth, and the waters subsided;

Isaiah 44:25

who frustrates the omens of liars, and makes fools of diviners; who turns wise men back, and makes their knowledge foolish;

Isaiah 44:27

who says to the deep, ‘Be dry, I will dry up your rivers’;

Jeremiah 50:12

your mother shall be utterly shamed, and she who bore you shall be disgraced. Lo, she shall be the last of the nations, a wilderness dry and desert.

Jeremiah 50:2

“Declare among the nations and proclaim, set up a banner and proclaim, conceal it not, and say: ‘Babylon is taken, Bel is put to shame, Merodach is dismayed. Her images are put to shame, her idols are dismayed.’

Jeremiah 51:44

And I will punish Bel in Babylon, and take out of his mouth what he has swallowed. The nations shall no longer flow to him; the wall of Babylon has fallen.

Jeremiah 51:47

“Therefore, behold, the days are coming when I will punish the images of Babylon; her whole land shall be put to shame, and all her slain shall fall in the midst of her.

Jeremiah 51:52

“Therefore, behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will execute judgment upon her images, and through all her land the wounded shall groan.

Jeremiah 51:7

Babylon was a golden cup in the Lord's hand, making all the earth drunken; the nations drank of her wine, therefore the nations went mad.

Daniel 5:4

They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold and silver, bronze, iron, wood, and stone.

Acts 17:16

Now while Paul was waiting for them at Athens, his spirit was provoked within him as he saw that the city was full of idols.

Revelation 16:12

The sixth angel poured his bowl on the great river Euphrates, and its water was dried up, to prepare the way for the kings from the east.

Revelation 17:5

and on her forehead was written a name of mystery: “Babylon the great, mother of harlots and of earth's abominations.”

Judges 6:30

Then the men of the town said to Joash, “Bring out your son, that he may die, for he has pulled down the altar of Baal and cut down the Asherah beside it.”