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Jeremiah 51:29

NETBible	The earth will tremble and writhe in agony.¹ For the Lord will carry out his plan. He plans to make the land of Babylonia² a wasteland where no one lives.³
NIV © biblegateway Jer 51:29	The land trembles and writhes, for the LORD’s purposes against Babylon stand—to lay waste the land of Babylon so that no-one will live there.
NASB © biblegateway Jer 51:29	So the land quakes and writhes, For the purposes of the LORD against Babylon stand, To make the land of Babylon A desolation without inhabitants.
NLT © biblegateway Jer 51:29	Babylon trembles and writhes in pain, for everything the LORD has planned against her stands unchanged. Babylon will be left desolate without a single inhabitant.
MSG © biblegateway Jer 51:29	"The very land trembles in terror, writhes in pain, terrorized by my plans against Babylon, Plans to turn the country of Babylon into a lifeless moonscape--a wasteland.
BBE © SABDAweb Jer 51:29	And the land is shaking and in pain: for the purposes of the Lord are fixed, to make the land of Babylon an unpeopled waste.
NRSV © bibleoremus Jer 51:29	The land trembles and writhes, for the Lord’s purposes against Babylon stand, to make the land of Babylon a desolation, without inhabitant.
NKJV © biblegateway Jer 51:29	And the land will tremble and sorrow; For every purpose of the LORD shall be performed against Babylon, To make the land of Babylon a desolation without inhabitant.
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KJV	And the land <0776> shall tremble <07493> (8799) and sorrow <02342> (8799)_: for every purpose <04284> of the LORD <03068> shall be performed <06965> (8804) against Babylon <0894>_, to make <07760> (8800) the land <0776> of Babylon <0894> a desolation <08047> without an inhabitant <03427> (8802)_.
NASB © biblegateway Jer 51:29	So the land <0776> quakes <07493> and writhes <02342> , For the purposes <04284> of the LORD <03068> against <05921> Babylon <0894> stand <06965> , To make <07760> the land <0776> of Babylon <0894> A desolation <08047> without <0369> inhabitants <03427> .
LXXM	(28:29) eseisyh <4579> V-API-3S h <3588> T-NSF gh <1065> N-NSF kai <2532> CONJ eponesen {V-AAI-3S} dioti <1360> CONJ exanesth {V-AAI-3S} epi <1909> PREP babulwna <897> N-ASF logismov <3053> N-NSM kuriou <2962> N-GSM tou <3588> T-GSN yeinai <5087> V-AAN thn <3588> T-ASF ghn <1065> N-ASF babulwnov <897> N-GSF eiv <1519> PREP afanismon <854> N-ASM kai <2532> CONJ mh <3165> ADV katoikeisyai {V-PMN} authn <846> D-ASF
NET [draft] ITL	The earth <0776> will tremble <07493> and writhe <02342> in agony. For <03588> the Lord <03068> will carry out <06965> his plan. He plans <04284> to make <07760> the land <0776> of Babylonia <0894> a wasteland <08047> where no one <0369> lives <03427> .
HEBREW	bswy <03427> Nyam <0369> hmsl <08047> lbb <0894> Ura <0776> ta <0853> Mwvl <07760> hwhy <03068> twbsxm <04284> lbb <0894> le <05921> hmq <06965> yk <03588> lxtw <02342> Urah <0776> sertw (51:29) <07493>

NETBible

The earth will tremble and writhe in agony.¹ For the Lord will carry out his plan. He plans to make the land of Babylonia² a wasteland where no one lives.³

NET Notes

¹sn The figure here is common in the poetic tradition of the Lord going forth to do battle against his foes and the earth’s reaction to it is compared to a person trembling with fear and writhing in agony, agony like that of a woman in labor (cf. Judg 5:4; Nah 1:2-5; Hab 3:1-15 [especially v. 6]).

²tn Heb “For the plans of the Lord have been carried out to make the land of Babylon…” The passive has been turned into an active and the sentence broken up to better conform with contemporary English style. For the meaning of the verb קוּם (qum) in the sense used here see BDB 878 s.v. קוּם 7.g and compare the usage in Prov 19:21 and Isa 46:10.

³tn The verbs in this verse and v. 30 are all in the past tense in Hebrew, in the tense that views the action as already as good as done (the Hebrew prophetic perfect). The verb in v. 31a, however, is imperfect, viewing the action as future; the perfects that follow are all dependent on that future. Verse 33 looks forward to a time when Babylon will be harvested and trampled like grain on the threshing floor and the imperatives imply a time in the future. Hence the present translation has rendered all the verbs in vv. 29-30 as future.