Jeremiah 51:44 “I will punish Bel in Babylon. I will make him spew out what he swallow…”

Jeremiah 51:44

I will punish Bel in Babylon. I will make him spew out what he swallowed. The nations will no longer stream to him; even the wall of Babylon will fall.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

And I will punish Bel in Babylon, and I will bring forth out of his mouth that which he hath swallowed up: and the nations shall not flow together any more unto him: yea, the wall of Babylon shall fall.

World English Bible

I will execute judgment on Bel in Babylon, and I will bring out of his mouth that which he has swallowed up. The nations will not flow any more to him. Yes, the wall of Babylon will fall.

American Standard Version

And I will execute judgment upon Bel in Babylon, and I will bring forth out of his mouth that which he hath swallowed up; and the nations shall not flow any more unto him: yea, the wall of Babylon shall fall.

Geneva Bible 1599

I wil also visite Bel in Babel, and I wil bring out of his mouth, that which he hath swallowed vp, and the nations shall runne no more vnto him, and the wall of Babel shall fall.

Darby Translation

And I will punish Bel in Babylon, and I will bring forth out of his mouth what he hath swallowed up; and the nations shall not flow together any more unto him: yea, the wall of Babylon is fallen.

Young's Literal Translation

And I have seen after Bel in Babylon, And I have brought forth that which he swallowed — from his mouth, And flow no more unto him do nations, Also the wall of Babylon hath fallen.

Bible in Basic English

And I will send punishment on Bel in Babylon, and take out of his mouth what went into it; no longer will the nations be flowing together to him: truly, the wall of Babylon will come down.

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Cross references

“I will punish”

Jeremiah 50:2 Jeremiah 51:18 Jeremiah 51:47 Isaiah 46:1 Isaiah 46:2

Jeremiah 50:2 · BSB

“Announce and declare to the nations; lift up a banner and proclaim it; hold nothing back when you say, ‘Babylon is captured; Bel is put to shame; Marduk is shattered, her images are disgraced, her idols are broken in pi…

Jeremiah 51:18 · BSB

They are worthless, a work to be mocked. In the time of their punishment they will perish.

Jeremiah 51:47 · BSB

Therefore, behold, the days are coming when I will punish the idols of Babylon. Her entire land will suffer shame, and all her slain will lie fallen within her.

Isaiah 46:1 · BSB

Bel crouches; Nebo cowers. Their idols weigh down beasts and cattle. The images you carry are burdensome, a load to the weary animal.

Isaiah 46:2 · BSB

The gods cower; they crouch together, unable to relieve the burden; but they themselves go into captivity.

“I will bring”

Jeremiah 51:34 2 Chronicles 36:7 Daniel 1:2 Daniel 5:2–4 Daniel 5:26 Ezra 1:7

Jeremiah 51:34 · BSB

“Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has devoured me; he has crushed me. He has set me aside like an empty vessel; he has swallowed me like a monster; he filled his belly with my delicacies and vomited me out.

2 Chronicles 36:7 · BSB

Nebuchadnezzar also took to Babylon some of the articles from the house of the LORD, and he put them in his temple in Babylon.

Daniel 1:2 · BSB

And the Lord delivered into his hand Jehoiakim king of Judah, along with some of the articles from the house of God. He carried these off to the land of Shinar, to the house of his god, where he put them in the treasury…

Daniel 5:2–4 · BSB

Under the influence of the wine, Belshazzar gave orders to bring in the gold and silver vessels that Nebuchadnezzar his father had taken from the temple in Jerusalem, so that the king could drink from them, along with hi…

Daniel 5:26 · BSB

And this is the interpretation of the message: MENE means that God has numbered the days of your reign and brought it to an end.

Ezra 1:7 · BSB

King Cyrus also brought out the articles belonging to the house of the LORD that Nebuchadnezzar had carried away from Jerusalem and placed in the temple of his gods.

“the nations”

Isaiah 2:2 Isaiah 60:5 Daniel 3:29 Daniel 4:1 Daniel 4:22 Daniel 5:19

Isaiah 2:2 · BSB

In the last days the mountain of the house of the LORD will be established as the chief of the mountains; it will be raised above the hills, and all nations will stream to it.

Isaiah 60:5 · BSB

Then you will look and be radiant, and your heart will tremble and swell with joy, because the riches of the sea will be brought to you, and the wealth of the nations will come to you.

Daniel 3:29 · BSB

Therefore I decree that the people of any nation or language who say anything offensive against the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego will be cut into pieces and their houses reduced to rubble. For there is no other…

Daniel 4:1 · BSB

King Nebuchadnezzar, To the people of every nation and language who dwell in all the earth: May your prosperity be multiplied.

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.

Daniel 5:19 · BSB

Because of the greatness that He bestowed on him, the people of every nation and language trembled in fear before him. He killed whom he wished and kept alive whom he wished; he exalted whom he wished and humbled whom he…

“the wall”

Jeremiah 51:58 Jeremiah 51:53

Jeremiah 51:58 · BSB

This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Babylon’s thick walls will be leveled, and her high gates consumed by fire. So the labor of the people will be for nothing; the nations will exhaust themselves to fuel the flames.”

Jeremiah 51:53 · BSB

Even if Babylon ascends to the heavens and fortifies her lofty stronghold, the destroyers I send will come against her,” declares the LORD.

Also

Jeremiah 50:15

Jeremiah 50:15 · BSB

Raise a war cry against her on every side! She has thrown up her hands in surrender; her towers have fallen; her walls are torn down. Since this is the vengeance of the LORD, take out your vengeance upon her; as she has…

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

In context

43Her cities have become a desolation, a dry and arid land, a land where no one lives, where no son of man passes through.

45Come out of her, My people! Save your lives, each of you, from the fierce anger of the LORD.

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