George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Jeremiah 50:38
Drought. Cyrus almost drained the Euphrates, chap. li. 42., and Isaias xxi. --- Things, fit to terrify children, Baruch vi. 14. (Calmet) --- Protestants, "they are made upon their idols." (Haydock)
Drought. Cyrus almost drained the Euphrates, chap. li. 42., and Isaias xxi. --- Things, fit to terrify children, Baruch vi. 14. (Calmet) --- Protestants, "they are made upon their idols." (Haydock)
Verse Jeremiah 50:38. _A DROUGHT_ IS _UPON HER WATERS_] May not this refer to the _draining of the channel of the Euphrates_, by which the army of Cyrus entered the city. See on Jeremiah 50:24. The o...
A DROUGHT - Rather, “a sword,” i. e., military skill and forethought. THEY ARE MAD UPON THEIR IDOLS - Omit their. The word for idols, literally terrors Psalms 88:16 is used in this one place only of...
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...
IDOLS. horrors....
_A drought_ The Heb. words for _drought_and _sword_(differing by one vowel only, _ḥôreb, ḥereb_) are sufficiently alike to make it quite possible that here as at the beginning of the two previous vers...
A DROUGHT IS UPON HER WATERS— _A sword is upon her waters, that they may be dried up; because it is a land of idols, and they glory in vain gods._ Our translators, after the example of the Vulgate and...
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 DROUGHT IS UPON HER WATERS; AND THEY SHALL BE DRIED UP: FOR IT IS THE LAND OF GRAVEN IMAGES, AND THEY ARE MAD UPON THEIR IDOLS._ No JFB commentary on this verse....
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...
HER WATERS] the many canals which drained and irrigated the country around Babylon: cp. Jeremiah 51:13. Idols] Heb. 'terrors,' meaning their grotesque forms, such as winged bulls and humanheaded lion...
A DROUGHT IS UPON HER WATERS. — Better, _A sword._ The Hebrew word for “drought” has the same consonants as that for “sword,” with different vowel-points. In the original text the form of the two word...
חֹ֥רֶב אֶל ־מֵימֶ֖יהָ וְ יָבֵ֑שׁוּ כִּ֣י אֶ֤ר
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...
A (a) drought [is] upon her waters; and they shall be dried up: for it [is] the land of graven images, and they are mad over [their] idols. (a) For Cyrus cut the river Euphrates and divided the cours...
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...
Here the same word is used in a different sense: he had often before used the word חרב, _chereb, _“sword;” but now by changing only a point, he uses it in the sense of waste, or drought. (74) But as h...
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 DROUGHT [IS] UPON HER WATERS, AND THEY SHALL BE DRIED UP,.... Either on the waters of the land of Chaldea in general, from whence should follow barrenness, and so a want of the necessaries of life;...
A drought [is] upon her waters; and they shall be dried up: for it [is] the land of graven images, and they are mad upon [their] idols. Ver. 38. _A drought is upon her waters._] Which Cyrus did so dr...
_A drought is upon all her waters_ Our translators, after the example of the Vulgate and others, have rendered חרב, _a drought_, here, whereas they have translated it _a sword_ in the preceding verses...
THE ENEMIES OF BABYLON SUMMONED TO THE ATTACK...
A drought is upon her waters, and they shall be dried up, the dams and irrigation canals being destroyed by the invading army; FOR IT IS THE LAND OF GRAVEN IMAGES, AND THEY ARE MAD UPON THEIR IDOLS, l...
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 DROUGHT IS UPON HER WATERS, AND THEY SHALL BE DRIED UP: some think that this phrase hath a special reference to Cyrus's stratagem used in the surprise of Babylon; one part of it was fortified by the...
Jeremiah 50:38 drought H2721 waters H4325 up H3001 (H8804) land H776 images H6456 insane H1984 (H8704) idols...
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...
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...
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 50:38 Babylon’s IDOLS will not be able to help when God dries up the nation’s WATERS. ⇐
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)....
Acts 17:16; Daniel 3:1; Daniel 5:4; Habakkuk 2:18; Habakkuk 2:19;...
Dried — This phrase has a plain reference to Cyrus's stratagem used in the surprize of Babylon; one part of it was fortified by the great river Euphrates, which Cyrus diverted by cutting several chann...