Jeremiah 51:41 “How Sheshach has been captured! The praise of all the earth has been s…”

Jeremiah 51:41

How Sheshach has been captured! The praise of all the earth has been seized. What a horror Babylon has become among the nations!

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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

World English Bible

“How Sheshach is taken! How the praise of the whole earth is seized! How Babylon has become a desolation among the nations!

American Standard Version

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

Geneva Bible 1599

How is Sheshach taken! and howe is the glory of the whole earth taken! how is Babel become an astonishment among the nations!

Darby Translation

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

Young's Literal Translation

How hath Sheshach been captured, Yea, caught is the praise of the whole earth, How hath Babylon been for an astonishment among nations.

Bible in Basic English

How is Babylon taken! and the praise of all the earth surprised! how has Babylon become a cause of wonder among the nations!

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Cross references

“Sheshach”

Jeremiah 25:26 Daniel 5:1–3

Jeremiah 25:26 · BSB

all the kings of the north, both near and far, one after another—all the kingdoms on the face of the earth. And after all of them, the king of Sheshach will drink it too.

Daniel 5:1–3 · BSB

Later, King Belshazzar held a great feast for a thousand of his nobles, and he drank wine with them.

“the praise”

Isaiah 13:19 Jeremiah 49:25 Jeremiah 50:23 Isaiah 14:4 Daniel 2:38 Daniel 4:22

Isaiah 13:19 · BSB

And Babylon, the jewel of the kingdoms, the glory of the pride of the Chaldeans, will be overthrown by God like Sodom and Gomorrah.

Jeremiah 49:25 · BSB

How is the city of praise not forsaken, the town that brings Me joy?

Jeremiah 50:23 · BSB

How the hammer of the whole earth lies broken and shattered! What a horror Babylon has become among the nations!

Isaiah 14:4 · BSB

you will sing this song of contempt against the king of Babylon: How the oppressor has ceased, and how his fury has ended!

Daniel 2:38 · BSB

Wherever the sons of men or beasts of the field or birds of the air dwell, He has given them into your hand and has made you ruler over them all. You are that head of gold.

Daniel 4:22 · BSB

you, O king, are that tree! For you have become great and strong; your greatness has grown to reach the sky, and your dominion extends to the ends of the earth.

“an astonishment”

Jeremiah 51:37 Jeremiah 50:46 Deuteronomy 28:37 2 Chronicles 7:21 Ezekiel 27:35

Jeremiah 51:37 · BSB

Babylon will become a heap of rubble, a haunt for jackals, an object of horror and scorn, without inhabitant.

Jeremiah 50:46 · BSB

At the sound of Babylon’s capture the earth will quake; a cry will be heard among the nations.

Deuteronomy 28:37 · BSB

You will become an object of horror, scorn, and ridicule among all the nations to which the LORD will drive you.

2 Chronicles 7:21 · BSB

And when this temple has become a heap of rubble, all who pass by it will be appalled and say, ‘Why has the LORD done such a thing to this land and to this temple?’

Ezekiel 27:35 · BSB

All the people of the coastlands are appalled over you. Their kings shudder with fear; their faces are contorted.

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

In context

40I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with male goats.

42The sea has come up over Babylon; she is covered in turbulent waves.

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