Jeremiah 51:36 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

³⁶ Therefore thus saith the LORD: Behold, I will plead thy cause, and take vengeance for thee; and I will dry up her sea, and make her fountain dry.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³⁶ Therefore thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will plead thy cause, and take vengeance for thee; and I will dry up her sea, and make her springs dry.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³⁶ Therefore thus says the Lord: Behold, I will plead your cause and take vengeance for you. I will dry up her lake or great reservoir and make her fountain dry.

American Standard Version (1901)

³⁶ Therefore thus saith Jehovah: Behold, I will plead thy cause, and take vengeance for thee; and I will dry up her sea, and make her fountain dry.

Common English Bible

³⁶ Therefore, the LORD proclaims: I’m going to defend your cause; I’ll turn the tables on your attacker. I’ll dry up her sea; I’ll shut up her springs.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³⁶ Because of this, thus says the Lord: "Behold, I will judge your case, and I will avenge your vengeance, and I will make her sea into a desert, and I will dry up her spring.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³⁶ Therefore thus saith the Lord: Behold, I will judge thy cause and will take vengeance for thee, and I will make her sea desolate and will dry up her spring.

Jeremiah 51:36 Cross References

Psalm 107:33

He turneth rivers into a wilderness, And watersprings into a thirsty ground;

Psalm 140:12

I know that the LORD will maintain the cause of the afflicted, And the right of the needy.

Proverbs 22:23

For the LORD will plead their cause, And despoil of life those that despoil them.

Proverbs 23:11

For their redeemer is strong; He shall plead their cause against thee.

Isaiah 19:5

And the waters shall fail from the sea, and the river shall be wasted and become dry.

Isaiah 43:14

Thus saith the LORD, your redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: For your sake I have sent to Babylon, and I will bring down all of them as fugitives, even the Chaldeans, in the ships of their rejoicing.

Isaiah 44:27

that saith to the deep, Be dry, and I will dry up thy rivers:

Jeremiah 50:38

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

Jeremiah 51:11

Make sharp the arrows; hold firm the shields: the LORD hath stirred up the spirit of the kings of the Medes; because his device is against Babylon, to destroy it: for it is the vengeance of the LORD, the vengeance of his temple.

Jeremiah 51:6

Flee out of the midst of Babylon, and save every man his life; be not cut off in her iniquity: for it is the time of the LORD'S vengeance; he will render unto her a recompence.

Ezekiel 25:14

And I will lay my vengeance upon Edom by the hand of my people Israel; and they shall do in Edom according to mine anger and according to my fury: and they shall know my vengeance, saith the Lord GOD

Hosea 13:15

Though he be fruitful among his brethren, an east wind shall come, the breath of the LORD coming up from the wilderness, and his spring shall become dry, and his fountain shall be dried up: he shall spoil the treasure of all pleasant vessels.

Romans 12:19

Avenge not yourselves, beloved, but give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance belongeth unto me; I will recompense, saith the Lord.

Deuteronomy 32:35

Vengeance is mine, and recompence, At the time when their foot shall slide: For the day of their calamity is at hand, And the things that are to come upon them shall make haste.

Deuteronomy 32:43

Rejoice, O ye nations, with his people: For he will avenge the blood of his servants, And will render vengeance to his adversaries, And will make expiation for his land, for his people.

Revelation 16:12

And the sixth poured out his bowl upon the great river, the river Euphrates; and the water thereof was dried up, that the way might be made ready for the kings that come from the sunrising.