KJV King James Version
Prepare against her the nations with the kings of the Medes, the captains thereof, and all the rulers thereof, and all the land of his dominion.
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Jeremiah 51:28
Prepare against her the nations with the kings of the Medes, the captains thereof, and all the rulers thereof, and all the land of his dominion.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
Prepare the nations for battle against her—the kings of the Medes, their governors and all their officials, and all the lands they rule.
WEB World English Bible
Prepare against her the nations, the kings of the Medes, its governors, and all its deputies, and all the land of their dominion.
ASV American Standard Version
Prepare against her the nations, the kings of the Medes, the governors thereof, and all the deputies thereof, and all the land of their dominion.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
Sanctify against it the nations with the kings of Media, Its governors and all its prefects, And all the land of its dominion.
Surrounding context — Jeremiah 51
25 Behold, 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.
26 And they shall not take of thee a stone for a corner, nor a stone for foundations; but thou shalt be desolate for ever, saith the LORD.
27 Set ye up a standard in the land, blow the trumpet among the nations, prepare the nations against her, call together against her the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ashchenaz; appoint a captain against her; cause the horses to come up as the rough caterpillers.
28 Prepare against her the nations with the kings of the Medes, the captains thereof, and all the rulers thereof, and all the land of his dominion.
29 And the land shall tremble and sorrow: for every purpose of the LORD shall be performed against Babylon, to make the land of Babylon a desolation without an inhabitant.
30 The mighty men of Babylon have forborn to fight, they have remained in [their] holds: their might hath failed; they became as women: they have burned her dwellingplaces; her bars are broken.
31 One post shall run to meet another, and one messenger to meet another, to shew the king of Babylon that his city is taken at [one] end,
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These Hebrew/Greek tokens are linked by Strong's number. Click one for its lexicon definition and other occurrences.
קַדְּשׁ֨וּH6942 · qa.dashto consecrate: consecateעָלֶ֤יהָH5921 · aluponגוֹיִם֙H1471 · goynationאֶת־H853 · et[Obj.]מַלְכֵ֣יH4428 · me.lekhkingמָדַ֔יH4074 · ma.dayMadaiאֶת־H853 · et[Obj.]פַּחוֹתֶ֖יהָH6346 · pe.chahgovernorוְאֶת־H853 · et[Obj.]כָּל־H3605 · kolallסְגָנֶ֑יהָH5461 · sa.ganrulerוְאֵ֖תH853 · et[Obj.]כָּל־H3605 · kolallאֶ֥רֶץH776 · e.retsland: country/planetמֶמְשַׁלְתּֽוֹ׃H4475 · mem.sha.lahdominion
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.Jeremiah 25:25And all the kings of Zimri, and all the kings of Elam, and all the kings of the Medes,Isaiah 13:17Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, which shall not regard silver; and [as for] gold, they shall not delight in it.Esther 10:2And all the acts of his power and of his might, and the declaration of the greatness of Mordecai, whereunto the king advanced him, [are] they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Media and Persia?1 Chronicles 1:5The sons of Japheth; Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Javan, and Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras.Daniel 8:20The ram which thou sawest having [two] horns [are] the kings of Media and Persia.Esther 1:3In the third year of his reign, he made a feast unto all his princes and his servants; the power of Persia and Media, the nobles and princes of the provinces, [being] before him:Isaiah 21:2A grievous vision is declared unto me; the treacherous dealer dealeth treacherously, and the spoiler spoileth. Go up, O Elam: besiege, O Media; all the sighing thereof have I made to cease.Genesis 10:2The sons of Japheth; Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Javan, and Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras.Daniel 5:28-30PERES; Thy kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians.Jeremiah 51:27Set ye up a standard in the land, blow the trumpet among the nations, prepare the nations against her, call together against her the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ashchenaz; appoint a captain against her; cause the horses to come up as the rough caterpillers.Daniel 8:3-4Then I lifted up mine eyes, and saw, and, behold, there stood before the river a ram which had [two] horns: and the [two] horns [were] high; but one [was] higher than the other, and the higher came up last.Daniel 6:8Now, O king, establish the decree, and sign the writing, that it be not changed, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which altereth not.Daniel 9:1In the first year of Darius the son of Ahasuerus, of the seed of the Medes, which was made king over the realm of the Chaldeans;
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