Jeremiah 51:41 - The Scriptures 2009

⁴¹ “Oh, how Shĕshaḵ has been captured, the praise of all the earth been seized! How Baḇel has become a ruin among the nations!

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁴¹ How is Sheshach taken! and how is the praise of the whole earth surprised! how is Babylon become an astonishment among the nations!

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁴¹ How Sheshach [Babylon] is taken! And the praise of the whole earth is surprised and seized! How Babylon has become an astonishing desolation and a horror among the nations!

American Standard Version (1901)

⁴¹ How is Sheshach taken! and the praise of the whole earth seized! how is Babylon become a desolation among the nations!

Common English Bible

⁴¹ How Sheshach has been defeated, the pride of the whole earth taken captive! How Babylon has become a wasteland among the nations!

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴¹ How was Sesac captured, and how was the renowned one of all the earth seized? How has Babylon become an astonishment among the nations?

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁴¹ How is Sesach taken, and the renowned one of all the earth surprised? How is Babylon become an astonishment among the nations?

Jeremiah 51:41 Cross References

2 Chronicles 7:21

“And this house, which has been exalted, everyone who passes by it is shall be astonished and say, ‘Why has יהוה done thus to this land and this house?’

Isaiah 13:19

“And Baḇel, the splendour of reigns, the comeliness of the pride of the Kasdim, shall be as when Elohim overthrew Seḏom and Amorah.

Isaiah 14:4

that you shall take up this proverb against the sovereign of Baḇel, and say, “How the oppressor has ceased, the gold-gatherer ceased!

Jeremiah 25:26

and all the sovereigns of the north, far and near, one with another, and all the reigns of the earth which are on the face of the ground. Also the sovereign of Shĕshaḵ shall drink after them.

Jeremiah 49:25

“How is the city of praise deserted, the city of My joy!

Jeremiah 50:23

“How the hammer of all the earth has been cut off and broken! How Baḇel has become a ruin among the nations!

Jeremiah 50:46

At the sound of Baḇel’s capture the earth shall be shaken, and the outcry shall be heard among the nations.

Jeremiah 51:37

“And Baḇel shall become a heap, a habitation of jackals, an astonishment and a hissing, without inhabitant.

Ezekiel 27:35

All the inhabitants of the isles shall be astonished at you, and their sovereigns shall be greatly afraid, their faces shall be troubled.

Daniel 2:38

and wherever the children of men dwell, or the beasts of the field and the birds of the heavens, He has given them into your hand, and has made you ruler over them all. You are the head of gold.

Daniel 4:22

it is you, O sovereign, for you have become great and strong. And your greatness has grown, and has reached to the heavens and your rulership to the end of the earth.

Daniel 4:30

The sovereign spoke and said, “Is not this great Baḇel, which I myself have built, for the house of the reign, by the might of my power and for the esteem of my splendour?”

Deuteronomy 28:37

“Thus you shall become an astonishment, a proverb, and a mockery among all the peoples to which יהוה drives you.