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the Week of Proper 16 / Ordinary 21
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Contemporary English Version

Jeremiah 51:4

Their troops will fall wounded in the streets of Babylon.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- The Topic Concordance - Judges;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Babylon;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Greek Versions of Ot;   Persia, Persians;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Babylon;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Zedekiah (2);  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Those who were slain will fall in the land of the Chaldeans,those who were pierced through, in her streets.
Hebrew Names Version
They shall fall down slain in the land of the Kasdim, and thrust through in her streets.
King James Version
Thus the slain shall fall in the land of the Chaldeans, and they that are thrust through in her streets.
English Standard Version
They shall fall down slain in the land of the Chaldeans, and wounded in her streets.
New American Standard Bible
"They will fall down dead in the land of the Chaldeans, And pierced through in their streets."
New Century Version
They will be killed in the land of the Babylonians and will die in her streets.
Amplified Bible
"They shall fall down dead in the land of the Chaldeans, And wounded in her streets."
World English Bible
They shall fall down slain in the land of the Chaldeans, and thrust through in her streets.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Thus the slaine shal fall in the lande of the Caldeans, and they that are thrust through in her streetes.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"They will fall down slain in the land of the Chaldeans, And pierced through in their streets."
Legacy Standard Bible
They will fall down slain in the land of the Chaldeans,And pierced through in their streets."
Berean Standard Bible
And they will fall slain in the land of the Chaldeans, and pierced through in her streets.
Complete Jewish Bible
In the land of the Kasdim the slain will fall, those thrust through [by the sword] in her streets.
Darby Translation
And the slain shall fall in the land of the Chaldeans, and they that are thrust through in her streets.
Easy-to-Read Version
Babylon's soldiers will be killed in the land of the Chaldeans. They will be badly wounded in the streets of Babylon."
George Lamsa Translation
Thus the slain shall fall in the land of the Chaldeans and the wounded lie in her streets.
Good News Translation
They will be wounded and die in the streets of their cities.
Lexham English Bible
And they will fall slain in the land of the Chaldeans, and pierced through in her streets.
Literal Translation
So the slain shall fall in the land of the Chaldeans, yea, pierced through in her streets.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Thus the slayne shal fall downe in the londe of the Caldees, and the wounded in the stretes.
American Standard Version
And they shall fall down slain in the land of the Chaldeans, and thrust through in her streets.
Bible in Basic English
And the dead will be stretched out in the land of the Chaldaeans, and the wounded in her streets.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And they shall fall down slain in the land of the Chaldeans, and thrust through in her streets.
King James Version (1611)
Thus the slaine shall fall in the land of the Caldeans, and they that are thrust through in her streetes.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Thus the slayne shall fall downe in the lande of the Chaldees, and the wounded in the streetes.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
yet I sent to you my servants the prophets early in the morning, and I sent, saying, Do not ye this abominable thing which I hate.
English Revised Version
And they shall fall down slain in the land of the Chaldeans, and thrust through in her streets.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And slayn men schulen falle in the lond of Caldeis, and woundid men in the cuntreis therof.
Update Bible Version
And they shall fall down slain in the land of the Chaldeans, and thrust through in her streets.
Webster's Bible Translation
Thus the slain shall fall in the land of the Chaldeans, and [they that are] thrust through in her streets.
New English Translation
Let them fall slain in the land of Babylonia, mortally wounded in the streets of her cities.
New King James Version
Thus the slain shall fall in the land of the Chaldeans, And those thrust through in her streets.
New Living Translation
They will fall dead in the land of the Babylonians, slashed to death in her streets.
New Life Bible
They will fall down dead in the land of Babylon and be killed in their streets."
New Revised Standard
They shall fall down slain in the land of the Chaldeans, and wounded in her streets.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
So shall they fall wounded in the land of Chaldea, - Yea thrust through, in her streets,
Douay-Rheims Bible
And the slain shall fall in the land of the Chaldeans, and the wounded in the regions thereof.
Revised Standard Version
They shall fall down slain in the land of the Chalde'ans, and wounded in her streets.
Young's Literal Translation
And fallen have the wounded in the land of the Chaldeans, And the pierced-through in her streets.

Contextual Overview

1 I, the Lord , am sending a wind to destroy the people of Babylonia and Babylon, its capital. 2 Foreign soldiers will come from every direction, and when the disaster is over, Babylonia will be empty and worthless. 3 I will tell these soldiers, "Attack quickly, before the Babylonians can string their bows or put on their armor. Kill their best soldiers and destroy their army!" 4 Their troops will fall wounded in the streets of Babylon. 5 Everyone in Israel and Judah is guilty. But I, the Lord All-Powerful, their holy God, have not abandoned them. 6 Get out of Babylon! Run for your lives! If you stay, you will be killed when I take revenge on the city and punish it for its sins. 7 Babylon was my golden cup, filled with the wine of my anger. The nations of the world got drunk on this wine and went insane. 8 But suddenly, Babylon will fall and be destroyed. I, the Lord , told the foreigners who lived there, "Weep for the city! Get medicine for its wounds; maybe they will heal." 9 The foreigners answered, "We have already tried to treat Babylon's wounds, but they would not heal. Come on, let's all go home to our own countries. Nothing is left in Babylonia; everything is destroyed." 10 The people of Israel said, "Tell everyone in Zion! The Lord has taken revenge for what Babylon did to us."

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

thrust: Jeremiah 49:26, Jeremiah 50:30, Jeremiah 50:37, Isaiah 13:15, Isaiah 14:19

Reciprocal: Isaiah 14:22 - I will Isaiah 21:2 - all the Isaiah 47:3 - I will take Jeremiah 12:3 - pull Jeremiah 37:10 - wounded men

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Thus the slain shall fall in the land of the Chaldeans,.... By the sword, or by the arrows and darts of the Medes and Persians:

and [they that are] thrust through in her streets; either by the one or by the other, especially the latter, since they only are mentioned;

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Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Translate it: “And they,” i. e., the young men who form her host Jeremiah 51:3, “shall fall slain in the land of the Chaldaeans, and pierced through in her streets,” i. e., the streets of Babylon.


 
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