George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Jeremiah 50:26
That. Hebrew, "her granaries; trample on her as on heaps of corn, destroy," &c. He alludes to the custom of oxen trampling out the corn, chap. li. 33.
That. Hebrew, "her granaries; trample on her as on heaps of corn, destroy," &c. He alludes to the custom of oxen trampling out the corn, chap. li. 33.
Verse Jeremiah 50:26. _OPEN HER STORE-HOUSES_] At the time that Cyrus took the city, it was full of provisions and treasures of all kinds; the walls had suffered no injury; and when the inhabitants he...
AGAINST HER - Or, to her, in order to plunder her. Her storehouses (literally granaries) are to burst open, the grain piled up in heaps, and finally they are to devote her to destruction, i. e., to bu...
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...
FROM THE UTMOST BORDER. from the farthest parts, or every quarter....
_from the utmost border_ better, as mg. _from every quarter_. Heb. lit. "from the end." _storehouses_ better, as mg. _granaries_. _cast her up as heaps_ "her" meaning the whole contents of the city,...
CAST HER UP AS HEAPS— The marginal rendering of our Bibles, which is followed by Houbigant, seems preferable; _Tread her as heaps,_ that is to say, as the corn is trodden down when it is threshed. 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...
Come against her from the utmost border, open her storehouses: cast her up as heaps, and destroy her utterly: let nothing of her be left. COME AGAINST HER FROM THE UTMOST BORDER - namely, of the e...
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...
OPEN HER STOREHOUSES. — The noun is not found elsewhere. Probably _granaries_ would be a better rendering. The word for “heaps” is used in Song Song of Solomon 7:2; Ruth 3:7 for “heaps of corn,” and t...
בֹּֽאוּ ־לָ֤הּ מִ קֵּץ֙ פִּתְח֣וּ מַאֲבֻסֶ֔יהָ...
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...
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 again addresses the Persians and the Medes, and encourages them to come against Babylon. We stated yesterday that the prophets are went to speak with authority, because they sustained the...
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...
COME AGAINST HER FROM THE UTMOST BORDER,.... Or, "from the end" a; from the end of the earth; from the Persian gulf, and the Caspian sea, on which the Persians and Medes bordered; from the most distan...
Come against her from the utmost border, open her storehouses: cast her up as heaps, and destroy her utterly: let nothing of her be left. Ver. 26. _Come against her._] This he speaketh to the Medes a...
_The Lord hath opened his armory_, &c. God hath raised up enemies to subdue the Chaldeans, namely, Cyrus and his confederates, and hath furnished them with all the means necessary for such an undertak...
Come against her from the utmost border, from the most remote corner of the earth, or, "all men, down to the very last," OPEN HER STOREHOUSES; CAST HER UP AS HEAPS, that is, all the plunder of the cit...
THE ENEMIES OF BABYLON SUMMONED TO THE ATTACK...
FROM THE UTTERMOST BORDER: _ Heb._ from the end CAST HER: Or, tread her...
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...
The prophet in the name of God calleth to the enemies of Babylon, the Medes, to come up from the furthest parts of their dominions, or from all parts, to fight against Babylon; to open the granaries,...
Jeremiah 50:26 Come H935 (H8798) border H7093 Open H6605 (H8798) storehouses H3965 Cast H5549 (H8798) heaps...
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...
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...
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...
JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 50:26 Babylon’s dead will be piled up LIKE HEAPS OF GRAIN pouring out of GRANARIES. DEVOTE HER TO DESTRUCTION. See note on...
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)....
Isaiah 10:6; Isaiah 14:23; Isaiah 25:10; Isaiah 45:3; Isaiah 5:26;...
Open her store — houses — The granaries, or treasures of the Babylonians....