Jeremiah 51:58
This is what the Lord of Hosts says: “Babylon’s thick walls will be leveled, and her high gates consumed by fire. So the labor of the people will be for nothing; the nations will exhaust themselves to fuel the flames.”
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 shall be weary.
Note The broad…: or, The walls of broad Babylon
Note broken: or, made naked
The Lord of Armies says: “The wide walls of Babylon will be utterly overthrown. Her high gates will be burned with fire. The peoples will labor for vanity, and the nations for the fire; and they will be weary.”
Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: The broad walls of Babylon shall be utterly overthrown, and her high gates shall be burned with fire; and the peoples shall labor for vanity, and the nations for the fire; and they shall be weary.
Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- The broad walls of Babylon
- or, The walls of broad Babylon. According to the testimony of Herodotus, the circumference of the walls of Babylon was 480 stadia, or 60 miles, their breadth 50 cubits, and their height 200 cubits; but when Darius became master of the place, B.C. 516, he took away all their 100 gates of brass, and beat down their walls to 50 cubits; and now not a vestige of these immense fortifications remains, to mark the site of this once mighty city!
- Jeremiah 51:44; Jeremiah 50:15
- broken
- or, made naked. high gates.
- Jeremiah 51:30; Isaiah 45:1, 2
- the people
- Jeremiah 51:9, 64; Psalm 127:1; Isaiah 65:23; Habakkuk 2:13