Jeremiah 51:37

THE MESSAGE

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Babylon will become a heap of rubble,a jackals’ den,a desolation and an object of scorn,without inhabitant.

Hebrew Names Version
Bavel shall become heaps, a dwelling-place for jackals, an astonishment, and a hissing, without inhabitant.

King James Version
And Babylon shall become heaps, a dwellingplace for dragons, an astonishment, and an hissing, without an inhabitant.

English Standard Version
and Babylon shall become a heap of ruins, the haunt of jackals, a horror and a hissing, without inhabitant.

New American Standard Bible
"Babylon will become a heap of ruins, a haunt of jackals, An object of horror and hissing, without inhabitants.

New Century Version
Babylon will become a pile of ruins, a home for wild dogs. People will be shocked by what happened there. No one will live there anymore.

Amplified Bible
"Babylon will become a heap [of ruins], a haunt and dwelling place of jackals, An object of horror (an astonishing desolation) and a hissing [of scorn and amazement], without inhabitants.

World English Bible
Babylon shall become heaps, a dwelling-place for jackals, an astonishment, and a hissing, without inhabitant.

Geneva Bible (1587)
And Babel shall be as heapes, a dwelling place for dragons, an astonishment, & an hissing, without an inhabitant.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Babylon will become a heap of ruins, a haunt of jackals, An object of horror and hissing, without inhabitants.

Legacy Standard Bible
Babylon will become a heap of ruins, a haunt of jackals,An object of horror and hissing, without inhabitants.

Berean Standard Bible
Babylon will become a heap of rubble, a haunt of jackals, an object of horror and scorn, without inhabitant.

Contemporary English Version
Babylon will be a pile of rubble where only jackals live. People will laugh, but they will be afraid to walk among the ruins.

Complete Jewish Bible
Bavel will become a heap of ruins, a place for jackals to live, an object of horror and hissing, with no one living there.

Darby Translation
And Babylon shall become heaps, a dwelling-place of jackals, an astonishment, and a hissing, without inhabitant.

Easy-to-Read Version
Babylon will become a pile of ruined buildings, a place fit only for wild dogs. People will be shocked and shake their heads at what is left there. It will be a place where no one lives.

George Lamsa Translation
And Babylon shall become heaps, a dwelling place for jackals, an astonishment and a hissing, without an inhabitant.

Good News Translation
That country will become a pile of ruins where wild animals live. It will be a horrible sight; no one will live there, and all who see it will be terrified.

Lexham English Bible
And Babylon will become as a heap of stones, a lair of jackals, an object of horror, and an object of hissing, without inhabitants.

Literal Translation
And Babylon shall become heaps, a home for jackals, a horror and a hissing, without a dweller.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Babilon shal become an heape of stones, a dwellinge place for dragons, a fearfulnes & wondringe, because no man dwelleth there.

American Standard Version
And Babylon shall become heaps, a dwelling-place for jackals, an astonishment, and a hissing, without inhabitant.

Bible in Basic English
And Babylon will become a mass of broken walls, a hole for jackals, a cause of wonder and surprise, without a living man in it.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
And Babylon shall become heaps, a dwelling-place for jackals, an astonishment, and a hissing, without inhabitant.

King James Version (1611)
And Babylon shal become heaps, a dwelling place for dragons, an astonishment, and an hissing without an inhabitant.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Babylon shall become an heape of stones, a dwellyng place for dragons, a fearefulnesse and wonderyng, and no man shall dwell there.

English Revised Version
And Babylon shall become heaps, a dwelling place for jackals, an astonishment, and an hissing, without inhabitant.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And Babiloyne schal be in to biriels, it schal be the dwellyng of dragouns, wondryng and hissyng, for that no dwellere is.

Update Bible Version
And Babylon shall become heaps, a dwelling-place for jackals, an astonishment, and a hissing, without inhabitant.

Webster's Bible Translation
And Babylon shall become heaps, a dwelling-place for dragons, an astonishment, and a hissing, without an inhabitant.

New English Translation
Babylon will become a heap of ruins. Jackals will make their home there. It will become an object of horror and of hissing scorn, a place where no one lives.

New King James Version
Babylon shall become a heap, A dwelling place for jackals, An astonishment and a hissing, Without an inhabitant.

New Living Translation
and Babylon will become a heap of ruins, haunted by jackals. She will be an object of horror and contempt, a place where no one lives.

New Life Bible
Babylon will become a waste place, a place where wild dogs live. She will be an object of trouble and hate, where no people live.

New Revised Standard
and Babylon shall become a heap of ruins, a den of jackals, an object of horror and of hissing, without inhabitant.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Thus shall Babylon become - Heaps A habitation of jackals An astonishment, and A hissing, Without inhabitant.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And Babylon shall be reduced to heaps, a dwelling place for dragons, an astonishment and a hissing, because there is no inhabitant.

Revised Standard Version
and Babylon shall become a heap of ruins, the haunt of jackals, a horror and a hissing, without inhabitant.

Young's Literal Translation
And Babylon hath been for heaps, A habitation of dragons, An astonishment, and a hissing, without inhabitant.

Contextual Overview

¹There's more. God says more: "Watch this: I'm whipping up A death-dealing hurricane against Babylon—‘Hurricane Persia'— against all who live in that perverse land. I'm sending a cleanup crew into Babylon. They'll clean the place out from top to bottom. When they get through there'll be nothing left of her worth taking or talking about. They won't miss a thing. A total and final Doomsday! Fighters will fight with everything they've got. It's no-holds-barred. They will spare nothing and no one. It's final and wholesale destruction—the end! Babylon littered with the wounded, streets piled with corpses. It turns out that Israel and Judah are not widowed after all. As their God, God -of-the-Angel-Armies, I am still alive and well, committed to them even though They filled their land with sin against Israel's most Holy God. ⁶"Get out of Babylon as fast as you can. Run for your lives! Save your necks! Don't linger and lose your lives to my vengeance on her as I pay her back for her sins. Babylon was a fancy gold chalice held in my hand, Filled with the wine of my anger to make the whole world drunk. The nations drank the wine and they've all gone crazy. Babylon herself will stagger and crash, senseless in a drunken stupor—tragic! Get anointing balm for her wound. Maybe she can be cured." ⁹ "We did our best, but she can't be helped. Babylon is past fixing. Give her up to her fate. Go home. The judgment on her will be vast, a skyscraper-memorial of vengeance. ¹⁰ " God has set everything right for us. Come! Let's tell the good news Back home in Zion. Let's tell what our God did to set things right. ¹¹"Sharpen the arrows! Fill the quivers! God has stirred up the kings of the Medes, infecting them with war fever: ‘Destroy Babylon!' God 's on the warpath. He's out to avenge his Temple. Give the signal to attack Babylon's walls. Station guards around the clock. Bring in reinforcements. Set men in ambush. God will do what he planned, what he said he'd do to the people of Babylon. You have more water than you need, you have more money than you need— But your life is over, your lifeline cut." ¹⁴ God -of-the-Angel-Armies has solemnly sworn: "I'll fill this place with soldiers. They'll swarm through here like locusts chanting victory songs over you." ¹⁵By his power he made earth. His wisdom gave shape to the world. He crafted the cosmos. He thunders and rain pours down. He sends the clouds soaring. He embellishes the storm with lightnings, launches the wind from his warehouse. Stick-god worshipers look mighty foolish! god-makers embarrassed by their handmade gods! Their gods are frauds, dead sticks— deadwood gods, tasteless jokes. They're nothing but stale smoke. When the smoke clears, they're gone. But the Portion-of-Jacob is the real thing; he put the whole universe together, With special attention to Israel. His name? God -of-the-Angel-Armies! ²⁰God says, "You, Babylon, are my hammer, my weapon of war. I'll use you to smash godless nations, use you to knock kingdoms to bits. I'll use you to smash horse and rider, use you to smash chariot and driver. I'll use you to smash man and woman, use you to smash the old man and the boy. I'll use you to smash the young man and young woman, use you to smash shepherd and sheep. I'll use you to smash farmer and yoked oxen, use you to smash governors and senators. ²⁴ "Judeans, you'll see it with your own eyes. I'll pay Babylon and all the Chaldeans back for all the evil they did in Zion." God 's Decree. ²⁵"I'm your enemy, Babylon, Mount Destroyer, you ravager of the whole earth. I'll reach out, I'll take you in my hand, and I'll crush you till there's no mountain left. I'll turn you into a gravel pit— no more cornerstones cut from you, No more foundation stones quarried from you! Nothing left of you but gravel." God 's Decree.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

become: Jeremiah 51:25, Jeremiah 51:26, Jeremiah 51:29, Jeremiah 25:9, Jeremiah 25:12, Jeremiah 25:18, Jeremiah 50:12, Jeremiah 50:13, Jeremiah 50:23-26, Jeremiah 50:38-40, Isaiah 13:19-22, Isaiah 14:23, Isaiah 34:8-17, Revelation 18:2, Revelation 18:21-23

an hissing: Jeremiah 18:16, Jeremiah 19:8, Jeremiah 29:18, 2 Chronicles 29:8, Lamentations 2:15, Lamentations 2:16, Micah 6:16, Zephaniah 2:15

Reciprocal: Job 15:28 - which are ready Isaiah 26:5 - the lofty Isaiah 34:13 - an habitation Jeremiah 9:11 - Jerusalem Jeremiah 26:18 - Jerusalem Jeremiah 49:17 - shall hiss Jeremiah 49:33 - a dwelling Jeremiah 50:39 - General Jeremiah 51:41 - an astonishment Jeremiah 51:43 - cities Jeremiah 51:62 - to cut Micah 1:6 - I will make Nahum 3:6 - will set Malachi 1:3 - the Revelation 18:18 - What

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And Babylon shall become heaps,.... The houses should be demolished, and the stones lie in heaps one upon another, and become mere rubbish:

a dwelling place for dragons; and other wild and savage creatures. Dragons, as Aelianus a observes, love to live in desert places, and such now Babylon is; it lies in ruins; and even its palace is so full of scorpions and serpents, as Benjamin of Tudela b says it was in his time, that men durst not enter into it; see Jeremiah 50:39;

an astonishment, and an hissing, without an inhabitant; an astonishment to neighbouring nations, and to all that pass by; who shall hiss at the destruction of it, and rejoice, there being not so much as a single inhabitant in it; which is its case to this day; see Jeremiah 50:13.

a De Animal. l. 6. c. 63. b Itinerarium, p. 76.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Heaps - Of rubbish, formed in this case by the decay of the unburned bricks of which Babylon was built. It is these heaps which have yielded such a large wealth of historical documents in our own days.

Dragons - Jackals Jeremiah 10:22.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Jeremiah 51:37. Without an inhabitant. — See Jeremiah 50:39.