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Jeremiah 51

Jer. 51:26 KJV (With Strong’s)

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And they shall not take
laqach (Hebrew #3947)
to take (in the widest variety of applications)
KJV usage: accept, bring, buy, carry away, drawn, fetch, get, infold, X many, mingle, place, receive(-ing), reserve, seize, send for, take (away, -ing, up), use, win.
Pronounce: law-kakh'
Origin: a primitive root
of thee a stone
'eben (Hebrew #68)
a stone
KJV usage: + carbuncle, + mason, + plummet, (chalk-, hail-, head-, sling-)stone(-ny), (divers) weight(-s).
Pronounce: eh'-ben
Origin: from the root of 1129 through the meaning to build
for a corner
pinnah (Hebrew #6438)
an angle; by implication, a pinnacle; figuratively, a chieftain
KJV usage: bulwark, chief, corner, stay, tower.
Pronounce: pin-naw'
Origin: feminine of 6434
, nor a stone
'eben (Hebrew #68)
a stone
KJV usage: + carbuncle, + mason, + plummet, (chalk-, hail-, head-, sling-)stone(-ny), (divers) weight(-s).
Pronounce: eh'-ben
Origin: from the root of 1129 through the meaning to build
for foundations
mowcadah (Hebrew #4146)
feminine of 4144; a foundation
KJV usage: foundation.
Pronounce: mo-saw-daw'
Origin: or mocadah {mo-saw-daw'}
; bute thou shalt be βdesolate
shmamah (Hebrew #8077)
feminine of 8076; devastation; figuratively, astonishment
KJV usage: (laid, X most) desolate(- ion), waste.
Pronounce: shem-aw-maw'
Origin: or shimamah {shee-mam-aw'}
for ever
`owlam (Hebrew #5769)
from 5956; properly, concealed, i.e. the vanishing point; generally, time out of mind (past or future), i.e. (practically) eternity; frequentatively, adverbial (especially with prepositional prefix) always
KJV usage: alway(-s), ancient (time), any more, continuance, eternal, (for, (n-))ever(-lasting, -more, of old), lasting, long (time), (of) old (time), perpetual, at any time, (beginning of the) world (+ without end). Compare 5331, 5703.
Pronounce: o-lawm'
Origin: or lolam {o-lawm'}
, saith
n'um (Hebrew #5002)
an oracle
KJV usage: (hath) said, saith.
Pronounce: neh-oom'
Origin: from 5001
the Lord
Yhovah (Hebrew #3068)
(the) self-Existent or Eternal; Jehovah, Jewish national name of God
KJV usage: Jehovah, the Lord. Compare 3050, 3069.
Pronounce: yeh-ho-vaw'
Origin: from 1961
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Jer. 50:40‑41• 40As God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbour cities thereof, saith Jehovah; so shall no man abide there, neither shall any son of man dwell therein.
 41Behold a people shall come from the north, and a great nation, and many kings shall be raised up from the coasts of the earth. (Jer. 50:40‑41)
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everlasting desolations.

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Jer. 51:37,43• 37And Babylon shall become heaps, a dwelling place for dragons, an astonishment, and an hissing, without an inhabitant.
 43Her cities are a desolation, a dry land, and a wilderness, a land wherein no man dwelleth, neither doth any son of man pass thereby. (Jer. 51:37,43)
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Jer. 50:12‑13• 12your mother shall be sore confounded; she that bare you shall be ashamed: behold, the hindermost of the nations shall be a wilderness, a dry land and a desert.
 13Because of the wrath of Jehovah it shall not be inhabited, but it shall be wholly desolate: every one that goeth by Babylon shall be astonished, and hiss at all her plagues. (Jer. 50:12‑13)
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Isa. 13:19‑22• 19And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldean's pride, shall be as God's overthrowing Sodom and Gomorrha.
 20It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in to generation and generation; neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there, nor shall shepherds make [their flocks] to lie down there.
 21But beasts of the desert there shall lie down; and their houses shall be full of owls; and ostriches shall dwell there, and satyrs shall dance there.
 22And wolves shall cry in their palaces, and jackals in the pleasant castles. And her time [is] near to come, and her days shall not be prolonged. (Isa. 13:19‑22)
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Isa. 14:23• 23I will also make it a possession for the porcupine, and pools of water; and I will sweep it with the besom of destruction, saith Jehovah of hosts. (Isa. 14:23)
desolate for ever.
Heb. everlasting desolations.
Jer. 50:40‑41• 40As God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbour cities thereof, saith Jehovah; so shall no man abide there, neither shall any son of man dwell therein.
 41Behold a people shall come from the north, and a great nation, and many kings shall be raised up from the coasts of the earth. (Jer. 50:40‑41)
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Isa. 34:8‑17• 8For [it is] the day of Jehovah's vengeance, the year of recompenses for the controversy of Zion.
 9And the streams thereof shall be turned into pitch, and the dust thereof into brimstone, and the land thereof shall become burning pitch.
 10It shall not be quenched night and day; the smoke thereof shall go up forever: from generation to generation it shall lie waste; none shall pass through it forever and ever.
 11But the pelican and the porcupine shall possess it; and the owl and the raven shall dwell therein. And he shall stretch over it the line of confusion, and the plummet of emptiness.
 12They shall call the nobles thereof to the kingdom, but none [shall be] there; and all her princes shall be nothing.
 13And thorns shall come up in her palaces, nettles and thistles in the fortresses thereof; and it shall be a habitation of jackals, a court for ostriches.
 14And the wild beasts of the desert shall meet with the wolves, and the satyr shall cry to his fellow; yea, the night-monster shall settle there, and shall find her a place of rest.
 15There shall the arrow snake make her nest, and lay, and hatch, and gather under her shadow: yea, there shall the kites be gathered, every one with her mate.
 16Seek ye out of the book of Jehovah and read: not one of these shall be missing, none shall want her mate; for my mouth, it hath commanded, and his spirit, it hath gathered them.
 17And he hath cast the lot for them, and his hand hath divided it unto them by line: they shall possess it forever, from generation to generation shall they dwell therein. (Isa. 34:8‑17)
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Rev. 18:20‑24• 20Rejoice over her, O heaven, and ye saints, and ye apostles, and ye prophets: for God hath judged your judgment on her.
 21And a strong angel took up a stone as a great millstone, and cast it into the sea, saying, Thus with violence shall Babylon the great city be cast down, and shall in no wise be found more.
 22And no voice of harpers and musicians and pipers and trumpeters shall be heard any more in thee; and no craftsman of any craft shall be found any more in thee; and no sound of millstone shall be heard any more in thee;
 23and no light of lamp shall shine any more in thee; and no voice of bridegroom and of bride shall be heard any more in thee; for thy merchants were the great ones of the earth; for by thy sorcery were all the nations deceived.
 24And in her the blood of prophets and of saints was found, and of all that were slain on the earth. (Rev. 18:20‑24)

J. N. Darby Translation

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And they shall not take of thee a stone for a corner, nor a stone for foundations; for thou shalt be desolate for everc, saith Jehovah.

JND Translation Notes

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Or "perpetual desolations," as ch. 25.12.

W. Kelly Translation

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And they shall not take of thee a stone for a corner, nor a stone for foundations; but thou shalt be desolate forever, saith Jehovah.