Come, see the LORD's works, what desolations he has made in the earth.
Jeremiah 51:43 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) Her cities are become a desolation, a dry land, and a desert, a land in which no man dwells, neither does any son of man pass thereby. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Her cities are a desolation, a dry land, and a wilderness, a land wherein no man dwelleth, neither doth any son of man pass thereby. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Her cities have become a desolation and a horror, a land of drought and a wilderness, a land in which no one lives, nor does any son of man pass through it. American Standard Version (1901) Her cities are become a desolation, a dry land, and a desert, a land wherein no man dwelleth, neither doth any son of man pass thereby. Common English Bible Her towns are devastated; her land is scorched and barren, a place where no one lives or dares to pass through. Catholic Public Domain Version Her cities have become an astonishment, an uninhabited and desolate land, a land in which no one may live, nor may a son of man pass through it. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Her cities are become an astonishment, a land uninhabited and desolate, a land wherein none can dwell, nor son of man pass through it. |
Come, see the LORD's works, what desolations he has made in the earth.
It will never be inhabited, neither will it be lived in from generation to generation. The Arabian will not pitch a tent there, neither will shepherds make their flocks lie down there.
Thorns will come up in its palaces, nettles and thistles in its fortresses; and it will be a habitation of jackals, a court for ostriches.
Therefore shall evil come on you; you shall not know the dawning of it: and mischief shall fall on you; you shall not be able to put it away: and desolation shall come on you suddenly, which you don't know.
to make their land an astonishment, and a perpetual hissing; everyone who passes thereby shall be astonished, and shake his head.
Neither said they, Where is the LORD who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, who led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and of pits, through a land of drought and of the shadow of death, through a land that none passed through, and where no man lived?
your mother shall be utterly disappointed; she who bore you shall be confounded: behold, she shall be the least of the nations, a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert.
The land trembles and is in pain; for the purposes of the LORD against Bavel do stand, to make the land of Bavel a desolation, without inhabitant.
Bavel shall become heaps, a dwelling place for jackals, an astonishment, and a hissing, without inhabitant.
and say, LORD, you have spoken concerning this place, to cut it off, that none shall dwell therein, neither man nor animal, but that it shall be desolate forever.