Jeremias 51:55
Because the Lord hath laid Babylon waste, and destroyed out of her the great voice: and their wave shall roar like many waters: their voice hath made a noise:
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The verse in its languages
- Vulgate (Clementine)
- quoniam vastavit Dominus Babylonem, et perdidit ex ea vocem magnam : et sonabunt fluctus eorum quasi aquæ multæ ; dedit sonitum vox eorum :
- Septuagint (Swete) shown from Jeremias 28:55
- ὅτι ἐξωλέθρευσεν Κύριος τὴν Βαβυλῶνα, καὶ ἀπώλεσεν ἀπ᾽ αὐτῆς φωνὴν μεγάλην ἠχοῦσαν ὡς ὕδατα πολλά, ἔδωκεν εἰς ὄλεθρον φωνὴν αὐτῆς.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- כִּֽי שֹׁדֵ֤ד יְהוָה֙ אֶת בָּבֶ֔ל וְאִבַּ֥ד מִמֶּ֖נָּה ק֣וֹל גָּד֑וֹל וְהָמ֤וּ גַלֵּיהֶם֙ כְּמַ֣יִם רַבִּ֔ים נִתַּ֥ן שְׁא֖וֹן קוֹלָֽם
Haydock's commentary
Great voice, or boasting and songs of joy, usual at public meetings.
Noise. They groan under affliction.
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.