the Week of Proper 12 / Ordinary 17
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Jeremiah 51:13
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You who reside by abundant water,rich in treasures,your end has come,your life thread is cut.
You who dwell on many waters, abundant in treasures, your end is come, the measure of your covetousness.
O thou that dwellest upon many waters, abundant in treasures, thine end is come, and the measure of thy covetousness.
O you who dwell by many waters, rich in treasures, your end has come; the thread of your life is cut.
You who live by many waters, Abundant in treasures, Your end has come, The measure of your end.
People of Babylon, you live near much water and are rich with many treasures, but your end as a nation has come. It is time to stop you from robbing other nations.
[O Babylon] you who live by many waters, Rich in treasures, Your end has come, And the line measuring your life is cut.
You who dwell on many waters, abundant in treasures, your end is come, the measure of your covetousness.
O thou that dwellest vpon many waters, abundant in treasures, thine ende is come, euen the ende of thy couetousnes.
O you who dwell by many waters, Abundant in treasures, Your end has come, The measure of your end.
O you who dwell by abundant waters,Abundant in treasures,Your end has come,The measure of your end.
You who dwell by many waters, rich in treasures, your end has come, the thread of your life is cut.
People of Babylon, you live along the Euphrates River and are surrounded by canals. You are rich, but now the time has come for you to die.
You who live near plenty of water, so rich in treasure — your end has come, your time for being cut off!
Thou that dwellest upon many waters, abundant in treasures, thine end is come, the measure of thy rapacity.
O you that dwell by many waters, abundant in treasures, your end has come and your wound is grievous.
That country has many rivers and rich treasures, but its time is up, and its thread of life is cut.
O you who live by mighty waters, rich in treasures, your end has come, the measure of your life.
O you who live by many waters, rich in treasures, your end has come, the measure of your unjust gain.
O thou that dwellest by the greate waters, o thou that hast so greate treasure and riches, thyne ende is come: & the rekenynge of thy wynnynges.
O thou that dwellest upon many waters, abundant in treasures, thine end is come, the measure of thy covetousness.
O you whose living-place is by the wide waters, whose stores are great, your end is come, your evil profit is ended.
O thou that dwellest upon many waters, abundant in treasures, thine end is come, the measure of thy covetousness.
O thou that dwellest vpon many waters, abundant in treasures; thine end is come, and the measure of thy couetousnesse.
O thou that dwellest by the great waters, O thou that hast so great treasure and riches, thine ende is come, and the reckenyng of thy wynnynges.
And I will visit them that dwell in the land of Egypt, as I have visited Jerusalem, with sword and with famine:
O thou that dwellest upon many waters, abundant in treasures, thine end is come, the measure of thy covetousness.
A! thou Babiloyne, that dwellist on many watris, riche in thi tresours, thin ende cometh, the foote mesure of thi kittyng doun.
O you that dwell on many waters, abundant in treasures, your end has come, the measure of your covetousness.
O thou that dwellest upon many waters, abundant in treasures, thy end is come, [and] the measure of thy covetousness.
"You who live along the rivers of Babylon, the time of your end has come. You who are rich in plundered treasure, it is time for your lives to be cut off.
O you who dwell by many waters, Abundant in treasures, Your end has come, The measure of your covetousness.
You are a city by a great river, a great center of commerce, but your end has come. The thread of your life is cut.
O you who live by many waters and have many riches, your end has come. Your life is being cut off.
You who live by mighty waters, rich in treasures, your end has come, the thread of your life is cut.
O thou who dwellest upon many waters, Who aboundest in treasures, - Come hath thine end! The measure of thine unrighteous gain!
O thou that dwellest upon many waters, rich in treasures, thy end is come for thy entire destruction.
O you who dwell by many waters, rich in treasures, your end has come, the thread of your life is cut.
O dweller on many waters, abundant in treasures, Come in hath thine end, the measure of thy dishonest gain.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
dwellest: Jeremiah 51:36, Revelation 17:1, Revelation 17:15
abundant: Jeremiah 50:37, Isaiah 45:3, Habakkuk 2:5-10, Revelation 18:11-17
thine: Jeremiah 17:11, Jeremiah 50:27, Jeremiah 50:31, Genesis 6:13, Lamentations 4:18, Ezekiel 7:2-12, Daniel 5:26, Amos 8:2, 1 Peter 4:7
and the: Habakkuk 2:9-11, Luke 12:19-21, 2 Peter 2:3, 2 Peter 2:14, 2 Peter 2:15, Jude 1:11 -13; Revelation 18:19
Reciprocal: Numbers 24:7 - many waters Isaiah 21:6 - Go Isaiah 27:1 - in the sea Ezekiel 17:4 - into Ezekiel 21:25 - whose Nahum 2:8 - like Habakkuk 2:8 - thou John 3:23 - much
Gill's Notes on the Bible
O thou that dwellest upon many waters,.... Here Babylon is addressed, either by the Lord, or by the prophet, or the godly Jews; who is described by her, situation, which was by the great river Euphrates; which being branched out into several canals or rivers, both ran through it, and encompassed it; hence mention is made of the rivers of Babylon, Psalms 137:1; and a fit emblem this city was of mystical Babylon, which is also said to sit on many waters, interpreted of people and nations, Revelation 17:1; and which Kimchi here interprets of an affluence of good things, though he admits of the literal sense of the words:
abundant in treasures: of corn, and of the fruits of the earth, and so in condition to hold out a siege, as well as strongly fortified by art and nature, before described; and of gold and silver, the sinews of war, which she had got together, partly by commerce, and partly by the spoil of other nations; and yet neither her situation nor her affluence could secure her from ruin:
thine end is come, [and] the measure of thy covetousness; this flourishing city was now near its end, and with it the whole Babylonish monarchy; the time fixed by the Lord, for the duration of one and the other, was now come; and whereas her covetousness was insatiable, and would have known no bounds, for the enlargement of her dominions, and for the accumulation of more wealth and riches; God set a limit to it, beyond which it should not go; which measure was now filled up, and the time for it expired. The Targum is,
"the day of thy destruction is come, and the time of the visitation of thy wickedness,''
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Upon many waters - The great wealth of Babylonia was caused not merely by the Euphrates, but by a vast system of canals, which served for defense as well as for irrigation.
The measure of thy covetousness - i. e., the appointed end of thy gain. Some render it: the ell of thy cutting off, i. e., the appointed measure at which thou art to be cut off, at which thy web of existence is to be severed from the loom.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Jeremiah 51:13. O thou that dwellest upon many waters — Thou who hast an abundant supply of waters. It was built on the confluence of the Tigris and Euphrates; the latter running through the city. But the many waters may mean the many nations which belonged to the Babylonish empire; nations and people are frequently so called in Scripture.
