George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Jeremiah 50:36
Diviners. Hebrew, "impostors." They were nowhere more plentiful, Daniel i. 20. Fortune-tellers were consulted on every occasion. The eastern nations are still much addicted to this superstition.
Diviners. Hebrew, "impostors." They were nowhere more plentiful, Daniel i. 20. Fortune-tellers were consulted on every occasion. The eastern nations are still much addicted to this superstition.
LIARS - Soothsayers, fortune-tellers....
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...
LIARS. praters. DOTE. be shown to be foolish....
_boasters_ better than mg. _boastings_. The reference is to prophets and diviners who promised permanent empire to Babylon. _dote_ The same word is rendered _are foolish_in Jeremiah 5:4....
A SWORD IS UPON THE LIARS— _The diviners, and they shall be mad._ Houbigant....
II. THE DESTRUCTION OF BABYLON Jeremiah 50:35 to Jeremiah 51:26 In this section of the Babylon oracle the major theme of the fall of Babylon becomes more prominent. The minor theme of the deliverance...
A sword is upon the Chaldeans, saith the LORD, and upon the inhabitants of Babylon, and upon her princes, and upon her wise men. A SWORD ... A SWORD ... A SWORD. The repetition of "A sword" in the...
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...
LIARS] rather, 'boasters.'...
A SWORD IS UPON THE LIARS; AND THEY SHALL DOTE. — The Hebrew word for “liars” — literally, _boastings_ — implies the falsehood of folly rather than of purpose. Better, perhaps, _the prating fools._ Th...
חֶ֥רֶב אֶל ־הַ בַּדִּ֖ים וְ נֹאָ֑לוּ חֶ֥רֶב
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 must not detain the Reader, by entering upon the many interesting particulars here enumerated of God's judgments upon Babylon. I only briefly observe, that the history of that kingdom hath fully sho...
He repeats the same thing, but in other words; and in the first clause he mentions diviners whom he before called wise men; and he calls them now by their true and proper name; for בדים _, bedim, _mea...
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...
A SWORD [IS] UPON THE LIARS,.... Some render it "bars" m, as the word sometimes signifies; and interpret it of great men, who are the strength and security of cities and commonwealths; but these are m...
A sword [is] upon the liars; and they shall dote: a sword [is] upon her mighty men; and they shall be dismayed. Ver. 36. _A sword is upon the liars,_] _i.e., _ The prognosticators and wizards. _Menda...
_A sword is upon the Chaldeans_ That is, there shall come a sword upon them. _Upon Babylon and her princes_ Who were slain together with their king, Belshazzar, at a feast, Jeremiah 51:39; Daniel 5:2....
THE ENEMIES OF BABYLON SUMMONED TO THE ATTACK...
A sword is upon the liars, the idle talkers, the astrologers of Babylon, AND THEY SHALL DOTE, become fools with their empty and deceitful statements; A SWORD IS UPON HER MIGHTY MEN, the Chaldean champ...
LIARS: Or, chief stays. _Heb._ bars...
33-46 It is Israel's comfort in distress, that, though they are weak, their Redeemer is strong. This may be applied to believers, who complain of the dominion of sin and corruption, and of their own...
A SWORD IS UPON THE LIARS; AND THEY SHALL DOTE: the word here translated _liars_ is by some translated _bars_, by some _liars_; and in the Hebrew it hath both significations; which makes some think it...
Jeremiah 50:36 sword H2719 soothsayers H907 fools H2973 (H8738) sword H2719 men H1368 dismayed H2865 (H8804)...
THE COMING JUDGMENT ON BABYLON IN ACCORDANCE WITH YHWH'S PURPOSE (JEREMIAH 50:35). The opening verses could be called ‘the Song of the Sword'. The sword is mentioned five times. Jeremiah 50:35 “A s...
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 Timothy 4:2; 1 Timothy 6:4; 2 Chronicles 25:16; 2 Samuel 15:31;...
Dote — Their soothsayers and wizards shall dote, not foreseeing what will be. Dismayed — Their hearts shall fail them when this day comes....