Jeremiah 51:31 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

³¹ One post shall run to meet another, and one messenger to meet another, to shew the king of Babylon that his city is taken on every quarter:

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³¹ One post shall run to meet another, and one messenger to meet another, to shew the king of Babylon that his city is taken at one end,

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³¹ One post shall run to meet another and one messenger to meet another to show the king of Babylon that his city is taken on every side and to its farthest end,

American Standard Version (1901)

³¹ One post shall run to meet another, and one messenger to meet another, to show the king of Babylon that his city is taken on every quarter:

Common English Bible

³¹ Courier joins courier, messenger joins messenger to relate the news to the king of Babylon that his entire city has fallen.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³¹ Runner will go forth to meet runner, and messenger will meet messenger, so as to tell the king of Babylon that his city has been captured, from one end to the other,

Jeremiah 51:31 Cross References

2 Chronicles 30:6

So the posts went with the letters from the king and his princes throughout all Israel and Judah, and according to the commandment of the king, saying, Ye children of Israel, turn again unto the LORD, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, that he may return to the remnant that are escaped of you out of the hand of the kings of Assyria.

Daniel 5:30

In that night Belshazzar the Chaldean king was slain.

Jeremiah 50:43

The king of Babylon hath heard the fame of them, and his hands wax feeble: anguish hath taken hold of him, and pangs as of a woman in travail.

Jeremiah 50:24

I have laid a snare for thee, and thou art also taken, O Babylon, and thou wast not aware: thou art found, and also caught, because thou hast striven against the LORD.

Jeremiah 4:20

Destruction upon destruction is cried; for the whole land is spoiled: suddenly are my tents spoiled, and my curtains in a moment.

Job 9:25

Now my days are swifter than a post: They flee away, they see no good.

Esther 8:14

So the posts that rode upon swift steeds that were used in the king's service went out, being hastened and pressed on by the king's commandment; and the decree was given out in Shushan the palace.

Esther 8:10

And he wrote in the name of king Ahasuerus, and sealed it with the king's ring, and sent letters by posts on horseback, riding on swift steeds that were used in the king's service, bred of the stud:

Jeremiah 50:2

Declare ye among the nations and publish, and set up a standard; publish, and conceal not: say, Babylon is taken, Bel is put to shame, Merodach is dismayed; her images are put to shame, her idols are dismayed.

Jeremiah 51:32

and the passages are surprised, and the reeds they have burned with fire, and the men of war are affrighted.