Jeremiah 50:22

Geneva Bible

A crie of battell is in the land, and of great destruction.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
The sound of war is in the land—a crushing blow!

Hebrew Names Version
A sound of battle is in the land, and of great destruction.

King James Version
A sound of battle is in the land, and of great destruction.

English Standard Version
The noise of battle is in the land, and great destruction!

New American Standard Bible
"The noise of battle is in the land, And great destruction.

New Century Version
"The noise of battle can be heard all over the country; it is the noise of much destruction.

Amplified Bible
"The noise of battle is in the land, And [the noise of] great destruction.

World English Bible
A sound of battle is in the land, and of great destruction.

Legacy Standard Bible
The noise of battle is in the land,And great destruction.

Berean Standard Bible
The noise of battle is in the land-the noise of great destruction.

Contemporary English Version
Sounds of war and the noise of destruction can be heard.

Complete Jewish Bible
"The sound of battle is heard in the land, with great destruction!

Darby Translation
A sound of battle is in the land, and great destruction.

Easy-to-Read Version
"The noise of battle can be heard all over the country. It is the noise of much destruction.

George Lamsa Translation
A sound of battle is in the land, and of great destruction.

Good News Translation
The noise of battle is heard in the land, and there is great destruction.

Lexham English Bible
The sound of battle is in the land, and great destruction.

Literal Translation
A sound of battle is in the land and of great ruin.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
There is gone aboute the londe a crie of a slaughter & greate murthur, namely on this maner:

American Standard Version
A sound of battle is in the land, and of great destruction.

Bible in Basic English
There is a sound of war in the land and of great destruction.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Hark! battle is in the land, and great destruction.

King James Version (1611)
A sound of battell is in the land, and of great destruction.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
There is gone about the lande a crye of a slaughter and great murther [namelye on this maner]

English Revised Version
A sound of battle is in the land, and of great destruction.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
The vois of batel and greet sorewe in the lond.

Update Bible Version
A sound of battle is in the land, and of great destruction.

Webster's Bible Translation
A sound of battle [is] in the land, and of great destruction.

New English Translation
The noise of battle can be heard in the land of Babylonia. There is the sound of great destruction.

New King James Version
A sound of battle is in the land, And of great destruction.

New Living Translation
"Let the battle cry be heard in the land, a shout of great destruction.

New Life Bible
The noise of battle is in the land, and much is destroyed.

New Revised Standard
The noise of battle is in the land, and great destruction!

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
The sound of battle is in the earth, - And a great destruction.

Douay-Rheims Bible
A noise of war in the land, and a great destruction.

Revised Standard Version
The noise of battle is in the land, and great destruction!

Young's Literal Translation
A noise of battle [is] in the land, and of great destruction.

THE MESSAGE
"The thunderclap of battle shakes the foundations! The Hammer has been hammered, smashed and splintered, Babylon pummeled beyond recognition. I set out a trap and you were caught in it. O Babylon, you never knew what hit you, Caught and held in the steel grip of that trap! That's what you get for taking on God .

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"The noise of battle is in the land, And great destruction.

Contextual Overview

²¹ Goe vp against the lande of the rebelles, euen against it, and against the inhabitantes of Pekod: destroy, and lay it waste after them, saieth the Lorde, and doe according to all that I haue commaunded thee. ²² A crie of battell is in the land, and of great destruction. ²³ Howe is the hammer of the whole world destroied, and broken! howe is Babel become desolate among the nations! ²⁴ I haue snared thee, and thou art taken, O Babel, and thou wast not aware: thou art found, and also caught, because thou hast striuen against the Lorde. ²⁵ The Lord hath opened his treasure, & hath brought foorth the weapons of his wrath: for this is the woorke of the Lorde God of hostes in the lande of the Caldeans. ²⁶ Come against her from the vtmost border: open her store houses: treade on her as on sheaues, and destroy her vtterly: let nothing of her be left. ²⁷ Destroy all her bullockes: let them goe downe to the slaughter. Wo vnto them, for their day is come, and the time of their visitation. ²⁸ The voyce of them that flee, and escape out of the lande of Babel to declare in Zion the vengeance of the Lorde our God, and the vengeance of his Temple. ²⁹ Call vp the archers against Babel: al ye that bend the bow, besiege it rounde about: let none thereof escape: recompence her according to her worke, & according to all that she hath done, doe vnto her: for she hath bene proud against the Lord, euen against the holy one of Israel. ³⁰ Therefore shall her yong men fall in the streetes, and al her men of warre shalbe destroied in that day, sayeth the Lord.

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Gill's Notes on the Bible

A sound of battle [is] in the land,.... In the land of the Chaldeans, as it is expressed in the Septuagint and Arabic versions; the noise of warriors, the clashing of arms, and sound of trumpets, both of the enemy entered into the land, and of the Chaldeans arming themselves in their own defence:

and of great destruction; in the same land; or in Babylon, as Abarbinel supplies it; this is the consequent of the former.