Jeremiah 51:64
Old Testament • 12 words with Strong's data
"And thou shalt say, Thus shall Babylon sink, and shall not rise from the evil that I will bring upon her: and they shall be weary. Thus far are the words of Jeremiah."
Word-by-Word Analysis
אָמַר
ʼâmar
to say (used with great latitude)
בָּבֶל
Bâbel
Babel (i.e. Babylon), including Babylonia and the Babylonian empire
קוּם
qûwm
to rise (in various applications, literal, figurative, intensive and causative)
רַע
raʻ
bad or (as noun) evil (natural or moral)
בּוֹא
bôwʼ
to go or come (in a wide variety of applications)
לָאָה
lâʼâh
to tire; (figuratively) to be (or make) disgusted
רָחַק
râchaq
to widen (in any direction), i.e. (intransitively) recede or (transitively) remove (literally or figuratively, of place or relation)
דָּבָר
dâbâr
a word; by implication, a matter (as spoken of) or thing; adverbially, a cause
יִרְמְיָה
Yirmᵉyâh
Jirmejah, the name of eight or nine Israelites
Key Terms in This Verse
קוּם qûwm
to rise (in various applications, literal, figurative, intensive and causative)
Study H6965 →רָחַק râchaq
to widen (in any direction), i.e. (intransitively) recede or (transitively) remove (literally or figuratively, of place or relation)
Study H7368 →בָּבֶל Bâbel
Babel (i.e. Babylon), including Babylonia and the Babylonian empire
Study H894 →דָּבָר dâbâr
a word; by implication, a matter (as spoken of) or thing; adverbially, a cause
Study H1697 →Cross References
Thus saith the LORD of hosts; The broad walls of Babylon shall be utterly broken, and her high gates shall be burned with fire; and the people shall labour in vain, and the folk in the fire, and they ...
Let thistles grow instead of wheat, and cockle instead of barley. The words of Job are ended.
And 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.
The prayers of David the son of Jesse are ended.
The sea is come up upon Babylon: she is covered with the multitude of the waves thereof.
Behold, is it not of the LORD of hosts that the people shall labour in the very fire, and the people shall weary themselves for very vanity?
He shall cut off the spirit of princes: he is terrible to the kings of the earth.
And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and ha...
Therefore thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Drink ye, and be drunken, and spue, and fall, and rise no more, because of the sword which I will send among you.
And there followed another angel, saying, Babylon is fallen, is fallen, that great city, because she made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication.
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