George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Jeremiah 51:33
Threshing, performed by oxen treading, and by rollers, &c., Judges viii. 16., and 2 Kings xii. 31. --- Little; about fifty-six years.
Threshing, performed by oxen treading, and by rollers, &c., Judges viii. 16., and 2 Kings xii. 31. --- Little; about fifty-six years.
Verse Jeremiah 51:33. _THE DAUGHTER OF BABYLON_ IS _LIKE A THRESHING FLOOR_] The threshing wheel is gone over her; she is trodden under foot....
Translate, “The daughter of Babylon is as a threshing-floor at the time when it is trampled,” i. e., trodden hard in readiness for the threshing: “yet a little while and the harvest-time” shall come t...
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...
THE LORD OF HOSTS, THE GOD OF ISRAEL. See note on Jeremiah 7:3....
_at the time when it is trodden_ i.e. made smooth and hard in preparation for the corn which is to be threshed upon it....
III. THE DOOM OF BABYLON Jeremiah 51:27-58 The third section of the Babylon oracle which begins in Jeremiah 51:27 emphasizes the final doom of Babylon. The attack of the enemy is again described in vi...
For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; The daughter of Babylon is like a threshingfloor, it is time to thresh her: yet a little while, and the time of her harvest shall come. THE DAUG...
1-14. The end of Babylon arrives....
_It is_ TIME TO THRESH HER] RV 'at the time when it is trodden.' 34F. Oppressed Israel speaks....
THE DAUGHTER OF BABYLON... — More literally, _The daughter of Babylon is like a threshing-floor, in the time when it is trodden_ (_i.e.,_ when it is being prepared for the actual process), _yet a litt...
כִּי֩ כֹ֨ה אָמַ֜ר יְהוָ֤ה צְבָאֹות֙ אֱלֹהֵ֣י...
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...
In the second movement of the prophecy which deals with Babylon's doom and Israel's responsibility, Jeremiah first repeated his declarations concerning the determination of Jehovah to bring about the...
For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; The daughter of Babylon [is] like a threshingfloor, [it is] time to thresh her: yet a little while, and the time of her harvest (s) shall come. (s...
Is not this command to the people of God, to go out of Babylon, the same as gospel precepts, 2 Corinthians 6:17; Revelation 18:4....
BY this similitude the Prophet confirms what he had before said, even that God would be the avenger of his Church, and would justly punish the Babylonians, but at the suitable time, which is usually c...
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...
FOR THUS SAITH THE LORD OF HOSTS, THE GOD OF ISRAEL,.... "The Lord of hosts", the Lord God omnipotent, and can do all things; "the God of Israel", and therefore will plead their cause, and take vengea...
For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; The daughter of Babylon [is] like a threshingfloor, [it is] time to thresh her: yet a little while, and the time of her harvest shall come. Ver. 3...
_The daughter of Babylon is like a thrashing-floor_ God's people have been sorely bruised and trodden under foot by the Babylonians, as corn in a thrashing-floor: see note on Isaiah 21:10. _It is time...
THE WORK OF THE SPOILERS...
For thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, The daughter of Babylon is like a threshing-floor, the whole empire being included in this figure; IT IS TIME TO THRESH HER, by the customary tread...
IT IS TIME TO THRESH HER: Or, in the time that he thresheth her...
1-58 The particulars of this prophecy are dispersed and interwoven, and the same things left and returned to again. Babylon is abundant in treasures, yet neither her waters nor her wealth shall secur...
BABYLON had been a threshing instrument by which, and a threshing-floor in which, God had threshed many other nations; God now intended to make it as a THRESHING-FLOOR wherein he would thresh the Chal...
Jeremiah 51:33 says H559 (H8804) LORD H3068 hosts H6635 God H430 Israel H3478 daughter H1323 Babylon H894 floor...
THE BABYLONIAN RESPONSE (JEREMIAH 51:30). As already mentioned Gobryas, the Persian general, took the city of Babylon by stealth, having diverted the water course that led into the city, thus being ab...
CONTENTS: Prophecies against Babylon, continued. CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah, Nebuchadrezzar, Seraiah. CONCLUSION: Let no nation think it will exempt them from God's judgment that they have been execu...
Jeremiah 51:7. _Babylon is a golden cup in the hands of Jehovah._ All the captives and allies are intoxicated with it. All nations bow to her idols, submit to her power, wonder at her riches, applaud...
CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—For _Chronological Notes,_ see foregoing chapter. GEOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES.— Jeremiah 51:27. “_The kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ashchenas_.” These nations of Western As...
EXPOSITION JEREMIAH 51:1 AGAINST THEM THAT DWELL IN THE MIDST OF THEM THAT RISE UP AGAINST ME. The Hebrew has _lēb-kāmai_, which is _Kasdim_, or _Chaldea, _written in the cypher called Athbash (see...
Amos 1:3; Habakkuk 3:12; Hosea 6:11; Isaiah 17:5; Isaiah 18:5;...
Threshing floor — Babylon had been a threshing instrument, by which, and a threshing — floor in which God had threshed many other nations; God now intended to make it as a threshing — floor wherein he...