Verse 37
Jeremiah 51:37
Young's Literal Translation
37
And Babylon hath been for heaps, A habitation of dragons, An astonishment, and a hissing, without inhabitant.
Original Language Text
hebrew
וְ/הָיְתָה֩ בָבֶ֨ל לְ/גַלִּ֧ים מְעוֹן תַּנִּ֛ים שַׁמָּ֥ה וּ/שְׁרֵקָ֖ה מֵ/אֵ֥ין יוֹשֵֽׁב
English Translation
And Babylon shall become a dwelling place for owls, a desolate place; there shall be no inhabitant.
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Chapter 51 Context
1
Thus said Jehovah: Lo, I am stirring up against Babylon, And the inhabitants of Leb -- My withstande...
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And I have sent to Babylon fanners, And they have fanned it, and they empty its land, For they have...
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3
Let not the treader tread his bow, Nor lift himself up in his coat of mail, Nor have ye pity on her...
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4
And fallen have the wounded in the land of the Chaldeans, And the pierced-through in her streets.
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5
For, not forsaken is Israel and Judah, By its God (Elohim) -- by Jehovah of Hosts, For their land ha...
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6
Flee ye from the midst of Babylon, And deliver ye each his soul, Be not cut off in its iniquity, For...
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7
A golden cup [is] Babylon in the hand of Jehovah, Making drunk all the earth, Of its wine drunk have...
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8
Suddenly hath Babylon fallen, Yea, it is broken, howl ye for it, Take balm for her pain, if so be it...
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9
We healed Babylon, and she was not healed, Forsake her, and we go, each to his land, For come unto t...
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10
Jehovah hath brought forth our righteousnesses, Come, and we recount in Zion the work of Jehovah our...
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11
Cleanse ye the arrows, fill the shields, Stirred up hath Jehovah the spirit of the kings of Madia, F...
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12
Unto the walls of Babylon lift up an ensign, Strengthen the watch, Establish the watchers, prepare t...
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13
O dweller on many waters, abundant in treasures, Come in hath thine end, the measure of thy dishones...
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14
Sworn hath Jehovah of Hosts by Himself, That, Surely I have filled thee [with] men as the cankerworm...
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15
The maker of earth by His power, The establisher of the world by His wisdom, Who by His understandin...
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16
At the voice He giveth forth, A multitude of waters [are] in the heavens, And He causeth vapours to...
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17
Brutish hath been every man by knowledge, Put to shame hath been every refiner by a graven image, Fo...
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18
Vanity [are] they -- work of errors, In the time of their inspection they perish.
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19
Not like these [is] the portion of Jacob, For He [is] former of all things, And [Israel is] the rod...
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20
An axe [art] thou to me -- weapons of war, And I have broken in pieces by thee nations, And I have d...
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21
And I have broken in pieces by thee horse and its rider, And I have broken in pieces by thee chariot...
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22
And I have broken in pieces by thee man and woman, And I have broken in pieces by thee old and young...
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23
And I have broken in pieces by thee shepherd and his drove, And I have broken in pieces by thee husb...
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24
And I have recompensed to Babylon, And to all inhabitants of Chaldea, All the evil that they have do...
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25
Lo, I [am] against thee, O destroying mount, An affirmation of Jehovah, That is destroying all the e...
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26
And they take not out of thee a stone for a corner, And a stone for foundations, For desolations age...
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27
Lift ye up an ensign in the land, Blow a trumpet among nations, Sanctify against it nations, Summon...
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28
Sanctify against it the nations with the kings of Media, Its governors and all its prefects, And all...
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29
And shake doth the land, and it is pained, For stood against Babylon have the purposes of Jehovah, T...
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30
Ceased have the mighty of Babylon to fight, They have remained in strongholds, Failed hath their mig...
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31
Runner to meet runner doth run, And announcer to meet announcer, To announce to the king of Babylon,...
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32
And the passages have been captured, And the reeds they have burnt with fire, And the men of war hav...
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33
For thus said Jehovah of Hosts, God (Elohim) of Israel, The daughter of Babylon [is] as a threshing-...
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34
Devoured us, crushed us, hath Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, He hath set us [as] an empty vessel, H...
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35
My wrong, and [that of] my flesh [is] on Babylon, Say doth the inhabitant of Zion, And my blood [is]...
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36
Therefore, thus said Jehovah: Lo, I am pleading thy cause, And I have avenged thy vengeance, And dri...
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37
And Babylon hath been for heaps, A habitation of dragons, An astonishment, and a hissing, without in...
38
Together as young lions they roar, They have shaken themselves as lions' whelps.
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39
In their heat I make their banquets, And I have caused them to drink, so that they exult, And have s...
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40
I cause them to go down as lambs to slaughter, As rams with he-goats.
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41
How hath Sheshach been captured, Yea, caught is the praise of the whole earth, How hath Babylon been...
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42
Come up against Babylon hath the sea, With a multitude of its billows it hath been covered.
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43
Its cities have been for a desolation, A dry land, and a wilderness, A land -- none doth dwell in th...
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44
And I have seen after Bel in Babylon, And I have brought forth that which he swallowed -- from his m...
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45
Go forth from its midst, O My people, And deliver ye, each his soul, Because of the fierceness of th...
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46
And lest your heart be tender, And ye be afraid of the report that is heard in the land, And come in...
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47
Therefore, lo, days are coming, And I have seen after the graven images of Babylon. And all its land...
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48
And cried aloud against Babylon Have heavens and earth, and all that [is] in them, For, from the nor...
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49
Even Babylon [is] to fall, ye pierced of Israel, Even they of Babylon have fallen, Ye pierced of all...
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50
Ye escaped of the sword, go on, stand not, Remember ye from afar Jehovah, And let Jerusalem come up...
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51
We have been ashamed, for we heard reproach, Covered hath shame our faces, For come in have stranger...
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52
Therefore, lo, days are coming, An affirmation of Jehovah, And I have seen after its graven images,...
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53
Because Babylon goeth up to the heavens, And because it fenceth the high place of its strength, From...
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54
A voice of a cry [is] from Babylon, And of great destruction from the land of the Chaldean.
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55
For Jehovah is spoiling Babylon, And hath destroyed out of it a great voice, And sounded have its bi...
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56
For come in against it -- against Babylon -- hath a spoiler, And captured have been its mighty ones,...
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57
And I have caused its princes to drink, And its wise men, its governors, And its prefects, and its m...
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58
Thus said Jehovah of Hosts, the wall of Babylon -- The broad one -- is utterly made bare, And her hi...
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59
The word that Jeremiah the prophet hath commanded Seraiah son of Neriah, son of Maaseiah, in his goi...
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and Jeremiah writeth all the evil that cometh unto Babylon on one book -- all these words that are w...
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61
And Jeremiah saith unto Seraiah, 'When thou dost enter Babylon, then thou hast seen, and hast read a...
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62
and hast said: Jehovah, Thou, Thou hast spoken concerning this place, to cut it off, that there is n...
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63
And it hath come to pass, when thou dost finish reading this book, thou dost bind to it a stone, and...
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64
and said, Thus sink doth Babylon, and it doth not arise, because of the evil that I am bringing in a...
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Verse Information
- Book
- Jeremiah
- Chapter
- Chapter 51 (64 verses)
- Version
- Young's Literal Translation