Jeremiah Chapter 51 verse 37 Holy Bible
And Babylon shall become heaps, a dwelling-place for jackals, an astonishment, and a hissing, without inhabitant.
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And Babylon will become a mass of broken walls, a hole for jackals, a cause of wonder and surprise, without a living man in it.
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And Babylon shall become heaps, a dwelling-place of jackals, an astonishment, and a hissing, without inhabitant.
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And Babylon shall become heaps, a dwellingplace for dragons, an astonishment, and an hissing, without an inhabitant.
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Babylon shall become heaps, a dwelling-place for jackals, an astonishment, and a hissing, without inhabitant.
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And Babylon hath been for heaps, A habitation of dragons, An astonishment, and a hissing, without inhabitant.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 37. - Heaps. "Vast 'heaps,' or mounds, shapeless and unsightly, are scattered at intervals over the entire region where it is certain that Babylon anciently stood" (Rawlinson, 'Ancient Monarchies,' 2:521). Dragons; rather, jackals.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(37) Babylon shall become heaps . . .--It is significant, as emphasising the law of retribution, that the terms are the same as those used of Jerusalem in Jeremiah 9:11; Jeremiah 19:8; Jeremiah 25:9; Jeremiah 25:18. Nothing is more characteristic of the present aspect of Babylon than the "heaps" or mounds of brickwork, fragments of pottery and earth, that are now scattered over the plain, and are slowly yielding up their records of the past to explorers. The "dragons" here (not the same word as in Jeremiah 51:34) are the "jackals" that howl in the ruins. (See Note on Jeremiah 10:22.) . . .