Therefore, the wrath of the Lord was on Judah and Jerusalem, and he made them an object of terror, horror, and mockery, , as you see with your own eyes.
Jeremiah 51:37 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised Babylon will become a heap of rubble, a jackals’ den, a desolation and an object of scorn, without inhabitant. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And Babylon shall become heaps, a dwellingplace for dragons, an astonishment, and an hissing, without an inhabitant. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition And Babylon shall become heaps [of ruins], a dwelling place of jackals, a horror (an astonishing desolation) and a hissing [of amazement], without inhabitant. American Standard Version (1901) And Babylon shall become heaps, a dwelling-place for jackals, an astonishment, and a hissing, without inhabitant. Common English Bible Babylon will become a heap of ruins, a den of wild dogs, a wasteland with no one left in it. Catholic Public Domain Version And Babylon will become a tumult, the habitation of dragons, an astonishment, and a hissing, because there is no inhabitant. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And Babylon shall be reduced to heaps, a dwelling-place for dragons, an astonishment and a hissing, because there is no inhabitant. |
Therefore, the wrath of the Lord was on Judah and Jerusalem, and he made them an object of terror, horror, and mockery, , as you see with your own eyes.
‘I will make her a swampland and a region for herons, and I will sweep her away with the broom of destruction.’ This is the declaration of the Lord of Armies.
They have made their land a horror, a perpetual object of scorn; , all who pass by it will be appalled and shake their heads.
I will make this city desolate, an object of scorn. Everyone who passes by it will be appalled and scoff because of all its wounds.
When the seventy years are completed, I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation” #– #this is the Lord’s declaration #– #“the land of the Chaldeans, for their iniquity, and I will make it a ruin for ever.
Jerusalem and the other cities of Judah, its kings and its officials, to make them a desolate ruin, an example for scorn and cursing #– #as it is today;
I am going to send for all the families of the north” #– #this is the Lord’s declaration #– #”and send for my servant Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and I will bring them against this land, against its residents, and against all these surrounding nations, and I will completely destroy them and make them an example of horror and scorn, and ruins for ever.
I will pursue them with sword, famine, and plague. I will make them a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth #– #a curse and a desolation, an object of scorn and a disgrace among all the nations where I have banished them.
‘Edom will become a desolation. Everyone who passes by her will be appalled and scoff because of all her wounds.
Hazor will become a jackals’ den, a desolation for ever. No one will live there; no human being will stay in it even temporarily.
The earth quakes and trembles because the Lord’s intentions against Babylon stand: to make the land of Babylon a desolation, without inhabitant.
I will make Jerusalem a heap of rubble, a jackals’ den. I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, an uninhabited place.
The statutes of Omri and all the practices of Ahab’s house have been observed; you have followed their policies. Therefore, I will make you a desolate place and the city’s residents an object of contempt; , you will bear the scorn of my people.’ ,
I will throw filth on you and treat you with contempt; I will make a spectacle of you.
This is the jubilant city that lives in security, that says to herself: I exist, and there is no one else. What a desolation she has become, a place for wild animals to lie down! Everyone who passes by her scoffs and shakes his fist.
He called out in a mighty voice: It has fallen, Babylon the Great has fallen! She has become a home for demons, a haunt for every unclean spirit, a haunt for every unclean bird, and a haunt for every unclean and despicable beast. ,