George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Jeremiah 51:5
Forsaken, as a widow, viduatus. (Haydock) --- God still considers the nation as his spouse. --- Their land. That of the Chaldeans, (Calmet) or of the Jews. (Theodoret) --- Sin, or punishment.
Forsaken, as a widow, viduatus. (Haydock) --- God still considers the nation as his spouse. --- Their land. That of the Chaldeans, (Calmet) or of the Jews. (Theodoret) --- Sin, or punishment.
Verse Jeremiah 51:5. _FOR ISRAEL_ HATH _NOT_ BEEN _FORSAKEN_] God still continued his prophets among them; he had never cast them wholly off. Even in the midst of _wrath _- highly deserved and inflic...
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...
ISRAEL... JUDAH. Now one People again. GOD. Hebrew. _Elohim._ App-4. THE LORD OF HOSTS. See note on Jeremiah 6:6, and 1 Samuel 1:3. SIN. Hebrew. _chata._ THE HOLY ONE OF ISRAEL. See note on...
_forsaken_ lit. _widowed_, cp. Isaiah 54:4. The word is masculine, contrary to the figure (e.g. Jeremiah 2:2) where Israel is the wife, and Jehovah the husband. _though their land, etc_.] i.e. in spit...
DISCOURSE: 1088 GOD’S MERCY CONTRASTED WITH OUR SINFULNESS Jeremiah 51:5. _Israel hath not been forsaken, nor Judah of Ms God, of the Lord of Hosts; though their land was filled with sin against the...
FOR ISRAEL HATH NOT BEEN FORSAKEN— _For Israel shall not therefore be forsaken, or Judah without his God, the Lord of Hosts, because their land hath been filled with desolation by the Holy One of Isra...
B. Ruthless Destruction Jeremiah 50:41 to Jeremiah 51:5 TRANSLATION (41) Behold, a people shall come from the north, a great nation and many kings shall be stirred up from the distant parts of the ea...
For Israel hath not been forsaken, nor Judah of his God, of the LORD of hosts; though their land was filled with sin against the Holy One of Israel. ISRAEL HATH NOT BEEN FORSAKEN - as a widow [Hebr...
51:5 forsaken, (c-5) Lit. 'not in widowhood.' land (d-17) i.e. the land of the Chaldeans....
See on Jeremiah 50:29....
1-14. The end of Babylon arrives....
ISRAEL HATH NOT BEEN FORSAKEN. — Better, _widowed._ The participle is from the word that commonly represents the idea of widowhood. Judah and Israel, the prophet declares, were not, as men thought, ab...
כִּ֠י לֹֽא ־אַלְמָ֨ן יִשְׂרָאֵ֤ל וִֽ יהוּדָה֙...
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 Israel [hath] not [been] (b) forsaken, nor Judah by his God, by the LORD of hosts; though their land was filled with sin against the Holy One of Israel. (b) Though they were forsaken for a time,...
I beg the Reader particularly to take notice of this last verse. Amidst all the chastisements of the Lord, and the permission given to the enemies of the Church to oppose her, the Lord's own testimony...
The Prophet shows here the cause why God had resolved to treat the Babylonians with so much severity, even because he would be the avenger of his own people. He also obviates a doubt which might have...
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 ISRAEL [HATH] NOT [BEEN] FORSAKEN, NOR JUDAH OF HIS GOD, OF THE LORD OF HOSTS,.... That is, not totally and finally; for though they might seem to be forsaken, when carried captive by their enemi...
For Israel [hath] not [been] forsaken, nor Judah of his God, of the LORD of hosts; though their land was filled with sin against the Holy One of Israel. Ver. 5. _For Israel hath not been forsaken._]...
_Against him that bendeth let the archer bend_ See Jeremiah 50:14; _and against him, that lifteth up himself in his brigandine_ Or, _coat of mail:_ suffer not them who are skilful in using the bow, or...
For Israel hath not been forsaken nor Judah of his God, of the Lord of hosts, the chosen people of Jehovah being still in His care, under His gracious protection; THOUGH THEIR LAND WAS FILLED WITH SIN...
THE THREAT OF JEHOVAH IN ITS VARIOUS FORMS...
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...
That is, not, utterly forsaken, for in a sense they were forsaken as to some gradual manifestations of God's love to them, but Judah and Israel were not left as a widow, or were not divorced from God....
Jeremiah 51:5 Israel H3478 forsaken H488 Judah H3063 God H430 LORD H3068 hosts H6635 land H776 filled H4390 ...
YHWH'S VENGEANCE ON BABYLON AND THE VINDICATION OF ISRAEL/JUDAH (JEREMIAH 51:1). The proclamation of the certainty of YHWH's coming judgment on Babylon, and on all that it stands for, continues. While...
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...
_For Israel hath not been forsaken, nor Judah of his God._ ISRAEL AND JUDAH NOT FORSAKEN You would think, according to the teaching of some, that Christ s members kept lopping off something like the...
JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 51:5 Despite all the judgments that God has sent on JUDAH and ISRAEL, he has NOT... FORSAKEN them, for he will unite them ...
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...
1 Kings 6:13; 1 Samuel 12:22; 2 Kings 21:16; Amos 9:8; Amos 9:9;...
Forsaken — Not utterly forsaken....