George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Jeremiah 50:5
Covenant. They renewed the old one under Nehemias, and never publicly broke it, as they had done. Yet the covenant of Christ is more properly meant.
Covenant. They renewed the old one under Nehemias, and never publicly broke it, as they had done. Yet the covenant of Christ is more properly meant.
Verse Jeremiah 50:5. _LET US JOIN OURSELVES TO THE LORD IN A PERPETUAL_ _COVENANT_] All our _former covenants_ have been broken; let us now make one that shall _last for ever_. He shall be the LORD O...
THITHERWARD - Hereward; the writer evidently was at Jerusalem....
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...
THITHERWARD. Hebrew. hitherward. Jeremiah was therefore not in Babylon, but in Egypt. PERPETUAL. Another evidence that this prophecy refers to the future covenant. Compare Jeremiah 3:18 Jeremiah 4:2;...
_thitherward_ Heb. _hitherward_, shewing that the writer was himself in Palestine....
DISCOURSE: 1086 REPENTANCE DESCRIBED Jeremiah 50:4. In those days, and at that time, saith the Lord, the children of Israel shall come, they and the children of Judah together, going and weeping: they...
CHAPTER NINETEEN GOD AND BABYLON Jeremiah 50:1 to Jeremiah 51:64 e Eichorn was the first to deny the authenticity of Chapter s 50-51 and he has been followed by most modern critics. Cornill affirms...
They shall ask the way to Zion with their faces thitherward, saying, Come, and let us join ourselves to the LORD in a perpetual covenant that shall not be forgotten. THEY SHALL ASK THE WAY TO ZION,...
THITHERWARD] RM 'Heb. hitherward.' 8-16. The triumph of Babylon over Israel shall be avenged....
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...
THEY SHALL ASK THE WAY TO ZION WITH THEIR FACES THITHERWARD. — Literally, _hitherward._ The correction is not without significance, as showing that the prophecy was written in Judah, and therefore as...
צִיֹּ֣ון יִשְׁאָ֔לוּ דֶּ֖רֶךְ הֵ֣נָּה פְנֵיהֶ֑ם בֹּ֚אוּ...
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...
What a beautiful description is here given of the people's return to their beloved home! Reader! there is such a thing as tears of joy, as well as tears of sorrow. Holy mourners in Christ, come within...
He explains himself more at large, that they would _ask _those they met _the way_, that _their faces _would be towards _Sion_, that they would also exhort one another to seek God and join themselves t...
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...
THEY SHALL ASK THE WAY TO ZION WITH THEIR FACES THITHERWARD,.... Either to Jerusalem, near to which Mount Zion was; or to the land of Israel, so called, from a principal part of it: and this also is n...
They shall ask the way to Zion with their faces thitherward, [saying], Come, and let us join ourselves to the LORD in a perpetual covenant [that] shall not be forgotten. Ver. 5. _They shall ask the w...
_In those days_ Wherein God shall begin to execute judgment on Babylon; _the children of Israel shall come_, &c. This passage is primarily meant of the return of the Jews from their captivity, upon th...
They shall ask the way to Zion, the habitation of Jehovah, WITH THEIR FACES THITHERWARD, set with steadfast purpose not to be daunted or to be turned aside by difficulties along the way, SAYING, COME...
CHALDEA PUNISHED; ISRAEL REDEEMED...
1-7 The king of Babylon was kind to Jeremiah, yet the prophet must foretell the ruin of that kingdom. If our friends are God's enemies, we dare not speak peace to them. The destruction of Babylon is...
That is, those of Judah and Israel that fear the Lord shall seriously and steadily seek the true God, and the true way of his worship; and, being sensible that they had broken the covenant which their...
Jeremiah 50:5 ask H7592 (H8799) way H1870 Zion H6726 faces H6440 toward H2008 Come H935 (H8798) join...
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 FALL OF BABYLON WILL LEAD ON TO THE SPIRITUAL RESTORATION OF ISRAEL (JEREMIAH 50:2). What is to come on Babylon is to be a warning to God's people not to trust in Babylon or enjoy its debauchery a...
Jeremiah 50:5 Those who would make their future different from the past must cultivate two things; first, the spirit of inquiry; secondly, a spirit of determination. I. Like these Israelites for the...
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...
_They shall ask the way to Zion, with their faces thitherward._ TRAVELLING ZIONWARD To return to one’s land of nativity after a long absence is one of the most pleasant experiences of human life. We...
JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 50:4 When Babylon falls, ISRAEL and JUDAH shall join together (Jeremiah 3:6) to...
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 Kings 19:10; 1 Kings 19:14; 2 Corinthians 8:5; 2 Samuel 23:5;...