And I will make it a possession of the screech owl and pools of water, and I will sweep it with the broom of destruction, says the Lord of hosts.
Jeremiah 51:26 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 No stone shall be taken from you for a corner and no stone for a foundation, but you shall be a perpetual waste, says the Lord. Plus de versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And they shall not take of thee a stone for a corner, nor a stone for foundations; but thou shalt be desolate for ever, saith the LORD. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition And [O Babylon] they shall not take your cracked stones for a cornerstone, or any stone for foundations, but you shall be waste and desolate forever, says the Lord. American Standard Version (1901) And they shall not take of thee a stone for a corner, nor a stone for foundations; but thou shalt be desolate for ever, saith Jehovah. Common English Bible They will never remove a cornerstone or a foundation stone from you. You will be a wasteland forever, declares the LORD. Catholic Public Domain Version And they will not take from you a stone for the corner, nor a stone for the foundations. Instead, you will be destroyed unto eternity," says the Lord. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And they shall not take of thee a stone for the corner, nor a stone for foundations, but thou shalt be destroyed for ever, saith the Lord. |
And I will make it a possession of the screech owl and pools of water, and I will sweep it with the broom of destruction, says the Lord of hosts.
Then after seventy years are completed, I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation, the land of the Chaldeans, for their iniquity, says the Lord, making the land an everlasting waste.
The land trembles and writhes, for the Lord’s purposes against Babylon stand, to make the land of Babylon a desolation, without inhabitant.
and Babylon shall become a heap of ruins, a den of jackals, an object of horror and of hissing, without inhabitant.
Her cities have become an object of horror, a land of drought and a desert, a land in which no one lives and through which no mortal passes.