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place the colon after bow....
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CHAPTER S 50-51 BABYLON
These two final Chapter s contain a great prophecy concerning Babylon,
her overthrow and doom. The fifty-first chapter closes with the
statement “thus far are the words of Jere...
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JEREMIAH 50:1 TO JEREMIAH 51:58. BABYLON. This long and monotonous
prophecy, which is without order or logical development of ideas, is
largely a compilation from the prophetic writings of Jeremiah an...
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Cp. Isaiah 13:16-22, specially Jeremiah 50:18....
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B. Babylon's Desolation and Israel's Restoration Jeremiah 50:11-20
TRANSLATION
(11) Because you laugh, because you rejoice, O plunderer of My
heritage, because you scamper about like a heifer in the...
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THE FALL OF BABYLON AND THE RESTORATION OF ISRAEL
The prophecy concerning Babylon is ascribed to Jeremiah in Jeremiah
51:59. This, however, need not mean more than that it represents the
tone of Jerem...
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ALL YE THAT BEND THE BOW. — The words are descriptive of the
light-armed troops that formed the strength of the Medo-Persian army
(see Jeremiah 49:35; Jeremiah 1:14). The words belong properly to the...
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עִרְכ֨וּ עַל ־בָּבֶ֤ל ׀ סָבִיב֙ כָּל
־דֹּ֣רְכֵי...
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CHAPTER XXV
BABYLON
Jeremiah 50:1, Jeremiah 51:1
"Babylon is taken, Bel is confounded, Merodach is broken in pieces."-
Jeremiah 50:2
THESE Chapter s present phenomena analogous to those of...
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The last of the prophecies concerning the nations has to do with
Babylon. Throughout the whole of Jeremiah's prophetic utterances, she
has been seen as the instrument of God's judgment. Finally, on ac...
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(o) Put yourselves in array against Babylon on every side: all ye that
bend the bow, shoot at her, spare no arrows: for she hath (p) sinned
against the LORD.
(o) He speaks to the enemies the Medes an...
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Let not the Reader overlook still further testimonies of divine favor
to his poor outcasts, in that the Lord sends enemies to destroy
Babylon, because Babylon had wasted his people. Ye rejoiced, said...
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The Prophet now turns to address the Medes and Persians, and
instigates them, in the name of God, to destroy Babylon. We have
already said, why the Prophets assume authority over all nations, even
tha...
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THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 45 THROUGH 51.
Chapter 45 gives us the prophecy with respect to Baruch, already
mentioned. Chapter 46 and following Chapter s contain the prophecies
against t...
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PUT YOURSELVES IN ARRAY AGAINST BABYLON ROUND ABOUT,.... This is
directed to the Medes and Persians, to dispose of their army in proper
places round about the city of Babylon, to besiege it; and to or...
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Put yourselves in array against Babylon round about: all ye that bend
the bow, shoot at her, spare no arrows: for she hath sinned against
the LORD.
Ver. 14. _For she hath sinned against the Lord._] Y...
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_Your mother shall be sore confounded_ Namely, Babylon the metropolis,
or mother-city of the empire. Or, your country shall be ashamed of
you, her children, who are not able to defend her. _Behold, th...
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CHALDEA PUNISHED; ISRAEL REDEEMED...
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Put yourselves in array against Babylon round about, to surround the
city and to attack her from all sides simultaneously; ALL YE THAT BEND
THE BOW, the archers representing the entire army of the ene...
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8-20 The desolation that shall be brought upon Babylon is set forth
in a variety of expressions. The cause of this destruction is the
wrath of the Lord. Babylon shall be wholly desolated; for she hat...
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The prophet calls to the Medes and Persians, with those who should
come with them to their assistance, to put themselves in military
order ready to come up against Babylon. The Persians (as was noted...
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Jeremiah 50:14 array H6186 (H8798) Babylon H894 around H5439 bend
H1869 (H8802) bow H7198 Shoot H3034 ...
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YHWH'S JUDGMENT ON BABYLON AND HIS PROMISES CONCERNING THE RESTORATION
OF THE REMNANT OF HIS PEOPLE (JEREMIAH 50:1 TO JEREMIAH 51:64).
The series of prophecies against the nations had commenced with t...
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THE CALL FOR ITS DESTRUCTION (JEREMIAH 50:14).
In view of the heinousness of her sins God will exact vengeance on
Babylon, by exacting from her what she has exacted from others. And
this was not only...
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CONTENTS: Prophecies against Babylon and Chaldea.
CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah, King of Assyria, Nebuchadrezzar.
CONCLUSION: The pride of men's hearts sets God against them and ripens
them in due time f...
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Jeremiah 50:1. _The word that the Lord spake against Babylon._ Messiah
in person spake to the prophet, as is stated in Jeremiah 48:1. But
while he spake against Babylon, his lips dropped with grace an...
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JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 50:14 Just as Judah and Israel faced
defeat because they SINNED AGAINST THE LORD, the same will happen to
BABYLON for the same reason. Babylon’s defeat is
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CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—1. CHRONOLOGY OF THE CHAPTER.—This
and the following chapter constitute one prophecy against Babylon; and
the date of its authorship is given in chap. Jeremiah 51:59: “t...
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Jeremiah 50:1. AND 51. ON BABYLON.
EXPOSITION
We have now reached a point at which some reference is necessary to
the centre versies of the so called "higher criticism." An attempt
must be made to pu...
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Shall we turn now to Jeremiah chapter 50.
Chapter 50 begins with the words,
The word that the LORD spake against Babylon and against the land of
the Chaldeans by Jeremiah the prophet (Jeremiah 50:1)....
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1 Samuel 17:20; 2 Samuel 10:9; Habakkuk 2:17; Habakkuk 2:8; Isaiah 1