Jeremiah 51:37
King James Version (KJV)
And Babylon shall become heaps, a dwellingplace for dragons, an astonishment, and an hissing, without an inhabitant.
In context
35 The violence done to me and to my flesh be upon Babylon, shall the inhabitant of Zion say; and my blood upon the inhabitants of Chaldea, shall Jerusalem say.
36 Therefore thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will plead thy cause, and take vengeance for thee; and I will dry up her sea, and make her springs dry.
37 And Babylon shall become heaps, a dwellingplace for dragons, an astonishment, and an hissing, without an inhabitant.
38 They shall roar together like lions: they shall yell as lions’ whelps.
39 In their heat I will make their feasts, and I will make them drunken, that they may rejoice, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith the LORD.
Jeremiah 51:37 in every translation
- KJV King James Version
- And Babylon shall become heaps, a dwellingplace for dragons, an astonishment, and an hissing, without an inhabitant.
- WEB World English Bible
- Babylon will become heaps, a dwelling place for jackals, an astonishment, and a hissing, without inhabitant.
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- Babylon will become a heap of rubble, a haunt for jackals, an object of horror and scorn, without inhabitant.
- ASV American Standard Version
- And Babylon shall become heaps, a dwelling-place for jackals, an astonishment, and a hissing, without inhabitant.
- YLT Young's Literal Translation
- And Babylon hath been for heaps, A habitation of dragons, An astonishment, and a hissing, without inhabitant.
- DBY Darby Translation
- And Babylon shall become heaps, a dwelling-place of jackals, an astonishment, and a hissing, without inhabitant.
- WBS Webster Bible
- And Babylon shall become heaps, a dwelling-place for dragons, an astonishment, and a hissing, without an inhabitant.