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Jeremiah 51:43
“Her cities are become a desolation, a dry land, and a desert, a land in which no man dwells, neither does any son of man pass thereby.”
Jeremiah 51:43 in the King James Version
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.Read Jeremiah 51:43 in the King James Version →
Verse in context — Jeremiah 51
How is Sheshach taken! and the praise of the whole earth seized! how is Babylon become a desolation among the nations!
The sea is come up on Babylon; she is covered with the multitude of its waves.
Her cities are become a desolation, a dry land, and a desert, a land in which no man dwells, neither does any son of man pass thereby.
I will execute judgment on Bel in Babylon, and I will bring forth out of his mouth that which he has swallowed up; and the nations shall not flow any more to him: yes, the wall of Babylon shall fall.
My people, go away from the midst of her, and save yourselves every man from the fierce anger of Yahweh.
Cross references for Jeremiah 51:43
- Isaiah 13:20
It will never be inhabited, neither will it be lived in from generation to generation. The Arabian will not pitch a tent there, neither will shepherds make their flocks lie down there.
- Jeremiah 2:6
Neither did they say, 'Where is Yahweh who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, who led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and of pits, through a land of drought and of the shadow of death, through a land that none pass...
- Jeremiah 51:29
The land trembles and is in pain; for the purposes of Yahweh against Babylon do stand, to make the land of Babylon a desolation, without inhabitant.
- Jeremiah 50:12
your mother shall be utterly disappointed; she who bore you shall be confounded: behold, she shall be the least of the nations, a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert.
- Ezekiel 29:10-11
therefore, behold, I am against you, and against your rivers, and I will make the land of Egypt an utter waste and desolation, from the tower of Seveneh even to the border of Ethiopia. No foot of man shall pass through it, nor foot of anima...
- Jeremiah 50:39-40
Therefore the wild animals of the desert with the wolves shall dwell there, and the ostriches shall dwell therein: and it shall be no more inhabited forever; neither shall it be lived in from generation to generation. As when God overthrew ...
- Jeremiah 51:37
Babylon shall become heaps, a dwelling place for jackals, an astonishment, and a hissing, without inhabitant.
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