KJV King James Version
For out of the north there cometh up a nation against her, which shall make her land desolate, and none shall dwell therein: they shall remove, they shall depart, both man and beast.
VERSE STUDY • KJV
Jeremiah 50:3
For out of the north there cometh up a nation against her, which shall make her land desolate, and none shall dwell therein: they shall remove, they shall depart, both man and beast.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
For a nation from the north will come against her; it will make her land a desolation. No one will live in it; both man and beast will flee.”
WEB World English Bible
For out of the north there comes up a nation against her, which shall make her land desolate, and none shall dwell therein: they are fled, they are gone, both man and animal.
ASV American Standard Version
For out of the north there cometh up a nation against her, which shall make her land desolate, and none shall dwell therein: they are fled, they are gone, both man and beast.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
For come up against her hath a nation from the north, It maketh her land become a desolation, And there is not an inhabitant in it. From man even unto beast, They have moved, they have gone.
Surrounding context — Jeremiah 50
1 The word that the LORD spake against Babylon [and] against the land of the Chaldeans by Jeremiah the prophet.
2 Declare ye among the nations, and publish, and set up a standard; publish, [and] conceal not: say, Babylon is taken, Bel is confounded, Merodach is broken in pieces; her idols are confounded, her images are broken in pieces.
3 For out of the north there cometh up a nation against her, which shall make her land desolate, and none shall dwell therein: they shall remove, they shall depart, both man and beast.
4 In those days, and in that time, saith the LORD, the children of Israel shall come, they and the children of Judah together, going and weeping: they shall go, and seek the LORD their God.
5 They shall ask the way to Zion with their faces thitherward, [saying], Come, and let us join ourselves to the LORD in a perpetual covenant [that] shall not be forgotten.
6 My people hath been lost sheep: their shepherds have caused them to go astray, they have turned them away [on] the mountains: they have gone from mountain to hill, they have forgotten their restingplace.
Original-language word links
These Hebrew/Greek tokens are linked by Strong's number. Click one for its lexicon definition and other occurrences.
כִּ֣יH3588 · kiforעָלָה֩H5927 · a.lahto ascend: riseעָלֶ֨יהָH5921 · aluponגּ֜וֹיH1471 · goynationמִצָּפ֗וֹןH6828 · tsa.phonnorthהֽוּא־H1931 · huhe/she/itיָשִׁ֤יתH7896 · shitto set: makeאֶת־H853 · et[Obj.]אַרְצָהּ֙H776 · e.retsland: country/planetלְשַׁמָּ֔הH8047 · sham.mahhorror: destroyedוְלֹֽא־H3808 · lonotיִהְיֶ֥הH1961 · ha.yahto beיוֹשֵׁ֖בH3427 · ya.shavto dwellבָּ֑הּH9034 · haherמֵאָדָ֥םH120 · a.dammanוְעַד־H5704 · adtillבְּהֵמָ֖הH929 · be.he.mahanimalנָ֥דוּH5110 · nudto wanderהָלָֽכוּ׃H1980 · ha.lakhto go: went
Cross-references
Jeremiah 51:11Make bright the arrows; gather the shields: the LORD hath raised up the spirit of the kings of the Medes: for his device [is] against Babylon, to destroy it; because it [is] the vengeance of the LORD, the vengeance of his temple.Zephaniah 1:3I will consume man and beast; I will consume the fowls of the heaven, and the fishes of the sea, and the stumblingblocks with the wicked; and I will cut off man from off the land, saith the LORD.Jeremiah 51:62Then shalt thou say, O LORD, thou hast spoken against this place, to cut it off, that none shall remain in it, neither man nor beast, but that it shall be desolate for ever.Jeremiah 50:9For, lo, I will raise and cause to come up against Babylon an assembly of great nations from the north country: and they shall set themselves in array against her; from thence she shall be taken: their arrows [shall be] as of a mighty expert man; none shall return in vain.Isaiah 13:17-22Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, which shall not regard silver; and [as for] gold, they shall not delight in it.Jeremiah 51:25-27Behold, I [am] against thee, O destroying mountain, saith the LORD, which destroyest all the earth: and I will stretch out mine hand upon thee, and roll thee down from the rocks, and will make thee a burnt mountain.Revelation 18:21-23And a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone, and cast [it] into the sea, saying, Thus with violence shall that great city Babylon be thrown down, and shall be found no more at all.Isaiah 13:5-10They come from a far country, from the end of heaven, [even] the LORD, and the weapons of his indignation, to destroy the whole land.Jeremiah 51:37-44And Babylon shall become heaps, a dwellingplace for dragons, an astonishment, and an hissing, without an inhabitant.Jeremiah 7:20Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, mine anger and my fury shall be poured out upon this place, upon man, and upon beast, and upon the trees of the field, and upon the fruit of the ground; and it shall burn, and shall not be quenched.Jeremiah 50:35-41A sword [is] upon the Chaldeans, saith the LORD, and upon the inhabitants of Babylon, and upon her princes, and upon her wise [men].Genesis 6:7And the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them.Exodus 12:12For I will pass through the land of Egypt this night, and will smite all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment: I [am] the LORD.Jeremiah 51:48Then the heaven and the earth, and all that [is] therein, shall sing for Babylon: for the spoilers shall come unto her from the north, saith the LORD.Jeremiah 21:6And I will smite the inhabitants of this city, both man and beast: they shall die of a great pestilence.Isaiah 14:22-24For I will rise up against them, saith the LORD of hosts, and cut off from Babylon the name, and remnant, and son, and nephew, saith the LORD.Jeremiah 50:12-13Your mother shall be sore confounded; she that bare you shall be ashamed: behold, the hindermost of the nations [shall be] a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert.Jeremiah 51:8-9Babylon is suddenly fallen and destroyed: howl for her; take balm for her pain, if so be she may be healed.
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