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Jeremiah 51

Jer. 51:34 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Nebuchadrezzar
Nbuwkadne'tstsar (Hebrew #5019)
or Nbuwkadnetstsar (Esther 2:6; Daniel 1:18) {neb-oo-kad-nets-tsar'}; or Nbuwkadreotstsar {neb-oo-kad-rets-tsar'}; or Nbuwkadreltstsowr (Ezra 2:1; Jeremiah 49:28) {neb-oo-kad-rets-tsore'}; or foreign derivation; Nebukadnetstsar (or -retstsar, or -retstsor), king of Babylon
KJV usage: Nebuchadnezzar, Nebuchadrezzar.
Pronounce: neb-oo-kad-nets-tsar'
Origin: or Nbukadneotstsar (2 Kings 24:1, 10) {neb-oo-kad-nets-tsar'}
the king
melek (Hebrew #4428)
a king
KJV usage: king, royal.
Pronounce: meh'-lek
Origin: from 4427
of Babylon
Babel (Hebrew #894)
confusion; Babel (i.e. Babylon), including Babylonia and the Babylonian empire
KJV usage: Babel, Babylon.
Pronounce: baw-bel'
Origin: from 1101
hath devoured
'akal (Hebrew #398)
to eat (literally or figuratively)
KJV usage: X at all, burn up, consume, devour(-er, up), dine, eat(-er, up), feed (with), food, X freely, X in...wise(-deed, plenty), (lay) meat, X quite.
Pronounce: aw-kal'
Origin: a primitive root
me, he hathz crushed
hamam (Hebrew #2000)
properly, to put in commotion; by implication, to disturb, drive, destroy
KJV usage: break, consume, crush, destroy, discomfit, trouble, vex.
Pronounce: haw-mam'
Origin: a primitive root (compare 1949, 1993)
me, he hath made
yatsag (Hebrew #3322)
to place permanently
KJV usage: establish, leave, make, present, put, set, stay.
Pronounce: yaw-tsag'
Origin: a primitive root
me an empty
riyq (Hebrew #7385)
emptiness; figuratively, a worthless thing; adverbially, in vain
KJV usage: empty, to no purpose, (in) vain (thing), vanity.
Pronounce: reek
Origin: from 7324
a vessel
kliy (Hebrew #3627)
something prepared, i.e. any apparatus (as an implement, utensil, dress, vessel or weapon)
KJV usage: armour ((-bearer)), artillery, bag, carriage, + furnish, furniture, instrument, jewel, that is made of, X one from another, that which pertaineth, pot, + psaltery, sack, stuff, thing, tool, vessel, ware, weapon, + whatsoever.
Pronounce: kel-ee'
Origin: from 3615
, he hath swallowed me up
bala` (Hebrew #1104)
to make away with (specifically by swallowing); generally, to destroy
KJV usage: cover, destroy, devour, eat up, be at end, spend up, swallow down (up).
Pronounce: baw-lah'
Origin: a primitive root
like a dragon
tanniyn (Hebrew #8577)
intensive from the same as 8565; a marine or land monster, i.e. sea-serpent or jackal
KJV usage: dragon, sea-monster, serpent, whale.
Pronounce: tan-neen'
Origin: or tanniym (Ezek. 29:3) {tan-neem'}
, he hath filled
male' (Hebrew #4390)
a primitive root, to fill or (intransitively) be full of, in a wide application (literally and figuratively)
KJV usage: accomplish, confirm, + consecrate, be at an end, be expired, be fenced, fill, fulfil, (be, become, X draw, give in, go) full(-ly, -ly set, tale), (over-)flow, fulness, furnish, gather (selves, together), presume, replenish, satisfy, set, space, take a (hand-)full, + have wholly.
Pronounce: maw-lay'
Origin: or malae (Esth. 7:5) {maw-law'}
his belly
kres (Hebrew #3770)
the paunch or belly (as swelling out)
KJV usage: belly.
Pronounce: ker-ace'
Origin: by variation from 7164
with my delicates
`eden (Hebrew #5730)
from 5727; pleasure
KJV usage: delicate, delight, pleasure. See also 1040.
Pronounce: ay'-den
Origin: or (feminine) aednah {ed-naw'}
, he hath cast me out
duwach (Hebrew #1740)
to thrust away; figuratively, to cleanse
KJV usage: cast out, purge, wash.
Pronounce: doo'-akh
Origin: a primitive root
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Jer. 50:17• 17Israel is a scattered sheep; the lions have driven him away: first the king of Assyria hath devoured him; and last this Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon hath broken his bones. (Jer. 50:17)
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Lam. 1:15• 15The Lord hath trodden under foot all my mighty men in the midst of me:{HR}He hath called an assembly against me to crush my young men:{HR}The Lord hath trodden the virgin, the daughter of Judah, as in a winepress. (Lam. 1:15)

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Cross References

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the king.
Jer. 51:49• 49As Babylon hath caused the slain of Israel to fall, so at Babylon shall fall the slain of all the earth. (Jer. 51:49)
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Jer. 39:1‑8• 1In the ninth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the tenth month, came Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon and all his army against Jerusalem, and they besieged it.
 2And in the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, the ninth day of the month, the city was broken up.
 3And all the princes of the king of Babylon came in, and sat in the middle gate, even Nergal-sharezer, Samgar-nebo, Sarsechim, Rab-saris, Nergal-sharezer, Rab-mag, with all the residue of the princes of the king of Babylon.
 4And it came to pass, that when Zedekiah the king of Judah saw them, and all the men of war, then they fled, and went forth out of the city by night, by the way of the king's garden, by the gate betwixt the two walls: and he went out the way of the plain.
 5But the Chaldeans' army pursued after them, and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho: and when they had taken him, they brought him up to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon to Riblah in the land of Hamath, where he gave judgment upon him.
 6Then the king of Babylon slew the sons of Zedekiah in Riblah before his eyes: also the king of Babylon slew all the nobles of Judah.
 7Moreover he put out Zedekiah's eyes, and bound him with chains, to carry him to Babylon.
 8And the Chaldeans burned the king's house, and the houses of the people, with fire, and brake down the walls of Jerusalem. (Jer. 39:1‑8)
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Jer. 50:7,17• 7All that found them have devoured them: and their adversaries said, We offend not, because they have sinned against Jehovah, the habitation of justice, even Jehovah, the hope of their fathers.
 17Israel is a scattered sheep; the lions have driven him away: first the king of Assyria hath devoured him; and last this Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon hath broken his bones. (Jer. 50:7,17)
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Lam. 1:1,14‑15• 1{i}How{/i} {i}doth the city sit solitary that was full of people!{HR}She that was great among the nations is become as a widow;{HR}The princess among the provinces is become tributary!{/i}
 14The yoke of my transgressions is bound by his hand:{HR}They are wreathed, and come up upon my neck: he hath made my strength to fall,{HR}The Lord hath delivered me into their hands, from whom I am not able to rise up.
 15The Lord hath trodden under foot all my mighty men in the midst of me:{HR}He hath called an assembly against me to crush my young men:{HR}The Lord hath trodden the virgin, the daughter of Judah, as in a winepress. (Lam. 1:1,14‑15)
he hath made.
Jer. 48:11‑12• 11Moab hath been at ease from his youth, and he hath settled on his lees, and hath not been emptied from vessel to vessel, neither hath he gone into captivity: therefore his taste remained in him, and his scent is not changed.
 12Therefore, behold, the days come, saith Jehovah, that I will send unto him wanderers, that shall cause him to wander, and shall empty his vessels, and break their bottles. (Jer. 48:11‑12)
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Isa. 24:1‑3• 1Behold, Jehovah maketh the earth empty, and maketh it waste, and turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad its inhabitants.
 2And it shall be, as with the people, so with the priest; as with the servant, so with his master; as with the maid, so with her mistress; as with the buyer, so with the seller; as with the lender, so with the borrower; as with the taker of usury, so with him from whom usury is taken.
 3The land shall be utterly emptied and utterly spoiled: for Jehovah hath spoken this word. (Isa. 24:1‑3)
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Isa. 34:11• 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. (Isa. 34:11)
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Nah. 2:2,9‑10• 2For Jehovah hath turned away the excellency of Jacob, as the excellency of Israel: for the emptiers have emptied them out, and marred their vine branches.
 9Take ye the spoil of silver, take the spoil of gold: for there is none end of the store and glory out of all the pleasant furniture.
 10She is empty, and void, and waste: and the heart melteth, and the knees smite together, and much pain is in all loins, and the faces of them all gather blackness. (Nah. 2:2,9‑10)
swallowed.
Jer. 51:44• 44And I will punish Bel in Babylon, and I will bring forth out of his mouth that which he hath swallowed up: and the nations shall not flow together any more unto him: yea, the wall of Babylon shall fall. (Jer. 51:44)
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Job 20:15• 15Wealth hath he swallowed, and shall disgorge it:{HR}God will eject it again out of his belly. (Job 20:15)
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Prov. 1:12• 12Let us swallow them up alive as Sheol,{HR}And whole as those that go down into the pit. (Prov. 1:12)
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Lam. 2:16• 16All thine enemies have opened their mouth against thee:{HR}They hiss and gnash the teeth: they say, We have swallowed her up:{HR}Certainly this is the day that we looked for; we have found, we have seen it. (Lam. 2:16)
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Ezek. 36:3• 3{i}therefore prophesy and say, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah:{/i} Because, even because they have made you desolate, and swallowed you up on every side, that ye might become a possession unto the residue of the nations, and ye are taken up on the lips of talkers, and a reproach of the people, (Ezek. 36:3)
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Amos 8:4• 4{i}Hear this, ye that pant after the needy, even to cause to fail the poor of the land,{/i} (Amos 8:4)
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Matt. 23:14• 14(Verse not included in this translation). (Matt. 23:14)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon hath devoured me, he hath crushed me, he hath made me an empty vessel; he hath swallowed me up like a dragon, he hath filled his belly with my delicates, he hath cast me out.

W. Kelly Translation

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Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon hath devoured me, he hath crushed me, he hath made me an empty vessel, he hath swallowed me up like a dragon, he hath filled his belly with my delicates, he hath cast me out.