Bible verse
The sea has come up over Babylon; she is covered in turbulent waves.
Jeremiah 51:42 · BSB
The verses around it, from Jeremiah 51.
38 They will roar together like young lions; they will growl like lion cubs.
39 While they are flushed with heat, I will serve them a feast, and I will make them drunk so that they may revel; then they will fall asleep forever and never wake up, declares the LORD.
40 I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with male goats.
41 How Sheshach has been captured! The praise of all the earth has been seized. What a horror Babylon has become among the nations!
42 The sea has come up over Babylon; she is covered in turbulent waves.
43 Her cities have become a desolation, a dry and arid land, a land where no one lives, where no son of man passes through.
44 I will punish Bel in Babylon. I will make him spew out what he swallowed. The nations will no longer stream to him; even the wall of Babylon will fall.
45 Come out of her, My people! Save your lives, each of you, from the fierce anger of the LORD.
46 Do not let your heart grow faint, and do not be afraid when the rumor is heard in the land; for a rumor will come one year—and then another the next year—of violence in the land and of ruler against ruler.
KJV
The sea is come up upon Babylon: she is covered with the multitude of the waves thereof.
ASV
The sea is come up upon Babylon; she is covered with the multitude of the waves thereof.
ERV
The sea is come up upon Babylon: she is covered with the multitude of the waves thereof.
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