49 As [1] Babylon hath caused the slain of Israel to fall, so at Babylon shall fall the slain of all the earth.

Other Translations of Jeremiah 51:49

New International Version

49 "Babylon must fall because of Israel's slain, just as the slain in all the earth have fallen because of Babylon.

English Standard Version

49 Babylon must fall for the slain of Israel, just as for Babylon have fallen the slain of all the earth.

The Message

49 "Babylon must fall - compensation for the war dead in Israel. Babylonians will be killed because of all that Babylonian killing.

New King James Version

49 As Babylon has caused the slain of Israel to fall, So at Babylon the slain of all the earth shall fall.

New Living Translation

49 "Just as Babylon killed the people of Israel and others throughout the world, so must her people be killed.

Matthew Henry's Commentary on Jeremiah 51:49

Commentary on Jeremiah 51:1-58

(Read Jeremiah 51:1-58)

The particulars of this prophecy are dispersed and interwoven, and the same things left and returned to again. Babylon is abundant in treasures, yet neither her waters nor her wealth shall secure her. Destruction comes when they did not think of it. Wherever we are, in the greatest depths, at the greatest distances, we are to remember the Lord our God; and in the times of the greatest fears and hopes, it is most needful to remember the Lord. The feeling excited by Babylon's fall is the same with the New Testament Babylon, Revelation 18:9,19. The ruin of all who support idolatry, infidelity, and superstition, is needful for the revival of true godliness; and the threatening prophecies of Scripture yield comfort in this view. The great seat of antichristian tyranny, idolatry, and superstition, the persecutor of true Christians, is as certainly doomed to destruction as ancient Babylon. Then will vast multitudes mourn for sin, and seek the Lord. Then will the lost sheep of the house of Israel be brought back to the fold of the good Shepherd, and stray no more. And the exact fulfilment of these ancient prophecies encourages us to faith in all the promises and prophecies of the sacred Scriptures.