Jeremias 51:42
The sea is come up over Babylon: she is covered with the multitude of the waves thereof.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Ascendit super Babylonem mare : multitudine fluctuum ejus operta est.
- Septuagint (Swete) shown from Jeremias 28:42
- ἀνέβη ἐπὶ Βαβυλῶνα ἡ θάλασσα ἐν ἤχῳ κυμάτων αὐτῆς, καὶ κατεκαλύφθη.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- עָלָ֥ה עַל בָּבֶ֖ל הַיָּ֑ם בַּהֲמ֥וֹן גַּלָּ֖יו נִכְסָֽתָה
Haydock's commentary
Sea: numerous armies of Cyrus, or the waters of the Euphrates let loose. (Calmet)
In the days of Alexander [the Great], many tombs of the kings were inundated. (Strabo xv.)
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.