George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Jeremiah 50:21
Rulers: the most potent empire of Babylon. --- All. Hebrew, "anathematize them and their posterity."
Rulers: the most potent empire of Babylon. --- All. Hebrew, "anathematize them and their posterity."
Verse Jeremiah 50:21. _GO UP AGAINST THE LAND OF MERATHAIM - AND AGAINST THE_ _INHABITANTS OF PEKOD_] No such _places_ as these are to be found any where else; and it is not likely that _places_ are...
THE LAND OF MERATHAIM - of double rebellion. Like Mitsraim, i. e., the two Egypts, Aram-Naharaim, i. e., Syria of the two rivers, or Mesopotamia, it is a dual. It may have been a real name; or - the d...
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...
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...
MERATHAIM. double rebellion. So called, here, because the empire was founded in. double rebellion. PEKOD. Visitation: i.e. in judgment. DESTROY. devote to extermination. Hebrew. _karam._ The same wor...
Merathaim is probably the Babylonian _Marrâtim_, the land by the _nar Marrâtu_(meaning _bitter river_) in S. Babylonia. To the Hebrew ear, however, the word suggests either _Double_(i.e. intensified)...
_Jeremiah 50:21. Go up,_ &c. The two places here mentioned, though unknown, are supposed to have been situate in the Babylonish dominions. The meaning of the words is, _the land of the rebels—and the...
C. Babylon's Visitation and Israel's Vindication Jeremiah 50:21-28 TRANSLATION (21) Against the land of Merathaim go up, against the inhabitants of Pekod! Slay and devote her to death (oracle of the...
Go up against the land of Merathaim, even against it, and against the inhabitants of Pekod: waste and utterly destroy after them, saith the LORD, and do according to all that I have commanded thee....
50:21 rebellion, (a-8) Or 'apostasy,' Heb. _ Merathaim_ . Some take the word as a symbolic name of Babylon. see ch. 51.1, and Note. visitation; (b-16) Or 'punishment.' Heb. _ Pekod_ . see Ezekiel 23:2...
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...
MERATHAIM.. PEKOD] Proper names bearing the significant senses of 'double-rebellion' and 'visitation,' alluding to Babylon....
GO UP AGAINST THE LAND OF MERATHAIM. — No such name is found in Babylonian inscriptions or is mentioned by historians. The most probable explanation of its use is that the prophet coined it as a descr...
עַל ־הָ אָ֤רֶץ מְרָתַ֨יִם֙ עֲלֵ֣ה עָלֶ֔יהָ וְ
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...
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...
Go up against the land of (t) Merathaim, [even] against it, and against the inhabitants of Pekod: waste and utterly destroy after them, saith the LORD, and do according to all that I have commanded th...
I only detain the Reader, to make one remark on this passage, though it furnisheth out many; and the one I beg the Reader particularly to observe is, in my view, a most important one; namely, that Bab...
The Prophet here undertakes the office of a herald, and animates the Persians and the Medes to make war with Babylon. This prophecy indeed never came to these nations, but we have stated why the Proph...
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...
GO UP AGAINST THE LAND OF MERATHAIM,.... Thought to be the country of the Mardi, which lay part of it in Assyria, and part of it in Armenia; expressed in the dual number, because one part of it lay on...
Go up against the land of Merathaim, [even] against it, and against the inhabitants of Pekod: waste and utterly destroy after them, saith the LORD, and do according to all that I have commanded thee....
_Go up against the land of Merathaim, and against Pekod_ Although these two words מרתים, _Merathaim_, and פקוד, _Pekod_, are considered by our translators as proper names; and the latter is so underst...
Go up against the land of Merathaim, "of double defiance," a name applied to Babylon on account of its rebellion against Jehovah and His commandments, EVEN AGAINST IT AND AGAINST THE INHABITANTS OF PE...
THE ENEMIES OF BABYLON SUMMONED TO THE ATTACK...
OF MERATHAIM: Or, of the rebels OF PEKOD: Or, visitation...
21-32 The forces are mustered and empowered to destroy Babylon. Let them do what God demands, and they shall bring to pass what he threatens. The pride of men's hearts sets God against them, and ripen...
There is some disputes amongst interpreters, whether the words here, MERATHAIM and PEKOD, be to be taken as common nouns, the one signifying rebels or rulers, the other visitation, because the Chaldea...
Jeremiah 50:21 up H5927 (H8798) land H776 Merathaim H4850 inhabitants H3427 (H8802) Pekod H6489 Waste H2717 ...
YHWH CALLS ON THE NATIONS TO FULFIL HIS WILL AS REGARDS BABYLON (JEREMIAH 50:21). We should note here how personal God's involvement is seen to be in the judgment coming on Babylon. It is in accordanc...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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)....
1 Samuel 15:11; 1 Samuel 15:3; 2 Chronicles 36:23; 2 Kings 18:25;...
Merathaim — The names of some places which Cyrus took in his way to Babylon....