Isaiæ 51:53

Nova Vulgata

Si ascenderit Babylon in caelum et firmaverit in excelso robur suum, a me venient vastatores eius", ait Dominus.

Parallel Translations

Clementine Latin Vulgate (1592)
Si ascenderit Babylon in cælum, et firmaverit in excelso robur suum, a me venient vastatores ejus, ait Dominus.

Jerome's Latin Vulgate (405)
Si ascenderit Babylon in cælum,
et firmaverit in excelso robur suum,
a me venient vastatores ejus, ait Dominus.

Bible Verse Review
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mount: Jeremiah 51:25, Jeremiah 51:58, Jeremiah 49:16, Genesis 11:4, Psalms 139:8-10, Isaiah 14:12-15, Isaiah 47:5, Isaiah 47:7, Ezekiel 31:9-11, Daniel 4:30, Amos 9:4, Obadiah 1:3, Obadiah 1:4

from: Jeremiah 51:1-4, Jeremiah 51:11, Jeremiah 51:48, Jeremiah 50:9, Jeremiah 50:10, Jeremiah 50:21, Jeremiah 50:25, Jeremiah 50:31-34, Jeremiah 50:45, Isaiah 10:6, Isaiah 10:7, Isaiah 13:2-5, Isaiah 13:17, Isaiah 41:25, Isaiah 45:1-5

Reciprocal: Isaiah 21:2 - the treacherous Isaiah 25:5 - shalt bring Isaiah 45:3 - I will give Isaiah 47:8 - I am Jeremiah 51:44 - the wall Amos 9:2 - climb Luke 10:15 - which

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Though Babylon should mount up to heaven,.... Could the walls of it, which were very high, two hundred cubits high, as Herodotus p says, be carried up as high as heaven; or the towers of it, which were exceeding high, ten foot higher than the walls, as Curtius q says, likewise be raised to the same height:

and though she should fortify the height of her strength: make her walls and towers as strong as they were high; unless this is to be understood particularly of the temple of Bel, in which was a solid tower, in length and thickness about six hundred and sixty feet; and upon this tower another; and so on to the number of eight, towers; and in the last of them a large temple, as the above historian r relates: but if these towers could have been piled up in a greater number, even so as to reach to heaven, it would have availed nothing against the God of heaven, to secure from his vengeance. The Targum is,

"if Babylon should be built with buildings as high as heaven, and should fortify the strong holds on high:''

[yet] from me shall spoilers come, saith the Lord; the Medes and Persians, sent and commissioned by him, who would pull down and destroy her walls and towers, be they ever so high and strong.

p L. 1. sive Clio, c. 178. q Hist. l. 5. c. 1. r Herodot. l. 1. c. 181.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 53. Though Babylon should mount up to heaven — Though it were fortified even to the skies, it shall fall by the enemies that I will send against it.