Jeremiah 51:43

43 Her towns will be desolate, a dry and desert land, a land where no one lives, through which no one travels.

Jeremiah 51:43 in Other Translations

43 Her cities are a desolation, a dry land, and a wilderness, a land wherein no man dwelleth, neither doth any son of man pass thereby.

43 Her cities have become a horror, a land of drought and a desert, a land in which no one dwells, and through which no son of man passes.

43 Her cities now lie in ruins; she is a dry wasteland where no one lives or even passes by.

43 Her towns stink with decay and rot, the land empty and bare and sterile. No one lives in these towns anymore. Travelers give them a wide berth.

43 Her cities have become a desolation, a dry and arid land, a land where no one lives, where no human being passes through.

Jeremiah 51:43 Meaning and Commentary

Jeremiah 51:43

Her cities are a desolation, a dry land, and a wilderness,
&c.] Which some understand of Babylon itself, divided into two parts by the river Euphrates running in the midst of it, called by Berosus ^F6 the inward and outward cities; though rather these design the rest of the cities in Chaldea, of which Babylon was the metropolis, the mother city, and the other her daughters, which should share the same fate with herself; be demolished, and the ground on which they stood become a dry, barren, uncultivated, and desert land: a land wherein no man dwelleth, neither doth [any] son of man pass
thereby;
having neither inhabitant nor traveller; see ( Jeremiah 50:12 Jeremiah 50:39 ) .

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FOOTNOTES:

F6 Apud Joseph. contr. Apion, l. 1. c. 19.

Jeremiah 51:43 In-Context

41 “How Sheshak will be captured, the boast of the whole earth seized! How desolate Babylon will be among the nations!

42 The sea will rise over Babylon; its roaring waves will cover her.

43 Her towns will be desolate, a dry and desert land, a land where no one lives, through which no one travels.

44 I will punish Bel in Babylon and make him spew out what he has swallowed. The nations will no longer stream to him. And the wall of Babylon will fall.

45 “Come out of her, my people! Run for your lives! Run from the fierce anger of the LORD.

Cross References

• 1. S Isaiah 21:1
• 2. S ver 29,62; S Isaiah 13:20; Jeremiah 2:6