42 The [a]sea is come up upon Babel: she is covered with the multitude of the waves thereof.

43 Her cities are desolate: the land is dry and a wilderness, a land wherein no man dwelleth, neither doth the son of man pass thereby.

44 I will also visit Bel in Babel, and I will bring out of his mouth, that which [b]he hath swallowed up, and the nations shall run no more unto him, and the wall of Babel shall fall.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 51:42 The great army of the Medes and Persians.
  2. Jeremiah 51:44 That is, his gifts and presents which he had received as part of the spoil of other nations, and which the idolaters brought unto him from all countries.

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