Because the LORD
Yhovah (yeh-ho-vaw')
(the) self-Existent or Eternal; Jehovah, Jewish national name of God -- Jehovah, the Lord.
hath spoiled
shadad (shaw-dad')
to be burly, i.e. (figuratively) powerful (passively, impregnable); by implication, to ravage -- dead, destroy(-er), oppress, robber, spoil(-er), utterly, (lay) waste.
Babylon
Babel (baw-bel')
confusion; Babel (i.e. Babylon), including Babylonia and the Babylonian empire -- Babel, Babylon.
and destroyed
'abad (aw-bad')
to wander away, i.e. lose oneself; by implication to perish (causative, destroy)
out of her the great
gadowl (gaw-dole')
great (in any sense); hence, older; also insolent
voice
qowl (kole)
from an unused root meaning to call aloud; a voice or sound
when her waves
gal (gal)
something rolled, i.e. a heap of stone or dung (plural ruins), by analogy, a spring of water (plural waves) -- billow, heap, spring, wave.
do roar
hamah (haw-maw')
to make a loud sound like Engl. hum); by implication, to be in great commotion or tumult, to rage, war, moan, clamor
like great
rab (rab)
abundant (in quantity, size, age, number, rank, quality)
waters
mayim (mah'-yim)
water; figuratively, juice; by euphemism, urine, semen -- + piss, wasting, water(-ing, (-course, -flood, -spring).
a noise
sha'own (shaw-one')
uproar (as of rushing); by implication, destruction -- horrible, noise, pomp, rushing, tumult (-uous).
of their voice
qowl (kole)
from an unused root meaning to call aloud; a voice or sound
is uttered
nathan (naw-than')
to give, used with greatest latitude of application (put, make, etc.)
