Jeremiah 51:30 “The warriors of Babylon have stopped fighting; they sit in their stron…”

Jeremiah 51:30

The warriors of Babylon have stopped fighting; they sit in their strongholds. Their strength is exhausted; they have become like women. Babylon’s homes have been set ablaze, the bars of her gates are broken.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

The mighty men of Babylon have forborn to fight, they have remained in their holds: their might hath failed; they became as women: they have burned her dwellingplaces; her bars are broken.

World English Bible

The mighty men of Babylon have stopped fighting, they remain in their strongholds. Their might has failed. They have become as women. Her dwelling places are set on fire. Her bars are broken.

American Standard Version

The mighty men of Babylon have forborne to fight, they remain in their strongholds; their might hath failed; they are become as women: her dwelling-places are set on fire; her bars are broken.

Geneva Bible 1599

The strong men of Babel haue ceased to fight: they haue remayned in their holdes: their strength hath fayled, and they were like women: they haue burnt her dwelling places, and her barres are broken.

Darby Translation

The mighty men of Babylon have ceased to fight, they are sitting in the fortresses; their might hath failed, they are become as women: they have set her dwelling places on fire; her bars are broken.

Young's Literal Translation

Ceased have the mighty of Babylon to fight, They have remained in strongholds, Failed hath their might, they have become woman, They have burnt her tabernacles, Broken have been her bars.

Bible in Basic English

Babylon's men of war have kept back from the fight, waiting in their strong places; their strength has given way, they have become like women: her houses have been put on fire, her locks are broken.

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Cross references

“The mighty”

Nahum 3:13 Isaiah 19:16 Psalm 76:5 Jeremiah 48:41 Jeremiah 51:32 Jeremiah 51:57

Nahum 3:13 · BSB

Look at your troops— they are like your women! The gates of your land are wide open to your enemies; fire consumes their bars.

Isaiah 19:16 · BSB

In that day the Egyptians will be like women. They will tremble with fear beneath the uplifted hand of the LORD of Hosts, when He brandishes it against them.

Psalm 76:5 · BSB

The valiant lie plundered; they sleep their last sleep. No men of might could lift a hand.

Jeremiah 48:41 · BSB

Kirioth has been taken, and the strongholds seized. In that day the heart of Moab’s warriors will be like the heart of a woman in labor.

Jeremiah 51:32 · BSB

The fords have been seized, the marshes set on fire, and the soldiers are terrified.”

Jeremiah 51:57 · BSB

I will make her princes and wise men drunk, along with her governors, officials, and warriors. Then they will fall asleep forever and not wake up,” declares the King, whose name is the LORD of Hosts.

“her bars”

Lamentations 2:9 Amos 1:5 Psalm 107:16 Psalm 147:13 Isaiah 45:1 Isaiah 45:2

Lamentations 2:9 · BSB

Her gates have sunk into the ground; He has destroyed and shattered their bars. Her king and her princes are exiled among the nations, the law is no more, and even her prophets find no vision from the LORD.

Amos 1:5 · BSB

I will break down the gates of Damascus; I will cut off the ruler from the Valley of Aven and the one who wields the scepter in Beth-eden. The people of Aram will be exiled to Kir,” says the LORD.

Psalm 107:16 · BSB

For He has broken down the gates of bronze and cut through the bars of iron.

Psalm 147:13 · BSB

For He strengthens the bars of your gates and blesses the children within you.

Isaiah 45:1 · BSB

This is what the LORD says to Cyrus His anointed, whose right hand I have grasped to subdue nations before him, to disarm kings, to open the doors before him, so that the gates will not be shut:

Isaiah 45:2 · BSB

“I will go before you and level the mountains; I will break down the gates of bronze and cut through the bars of iron.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

29The earth quakes and writhes because the LORD’s intentions against Babylon stand: to make the land of Babylon a desolation, without inhabitant.

31One courier races to meet another, and messenger follows messenger, to announce to the king of Babylon that his city has been captured from end to end.

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