King James Version
Jeremiah 51:42 in the King James Version says “The sea is come up upon Babylon: she is covered with the multitude of the waves thereof.” — study this verse from Jeremiah chapter 51 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“The sea is come up upon Babylon: she is covered with the multitude of the waves thereof.”
Jeremiah 51:42 · King James Version
I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with he goats.
How is Sheshach taken! and how is the praise of the whole earth surprised! how is Babylon become an astonishment among the nations!
The sea is come up upon Babylon: she is covered with the multitude of the waves thereof.
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.
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.
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“is come up”
H5927to ascend, intransitively (be high) or actively (mount); used in a great variety of senses, primary and secondary, literal and figurative
above, over, upon, or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applications
“The sea”
H3220a sea (as breaking in noisy surf) or large body of water; specifically (with the article), the mediterranean sea; sometimes a large river, or an artif
“of the waves”
H1530something rolled, i.e., a heap of stone or dung (plural ruins), by analogy, a spring of water (plural waves)
“she is covered”
H3680properly, to plump, i.e., fill up hollows; by implication, to cover (for clothing or secrecy)
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