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Jeremiah 51:24

And I will render unto Babylon and to all the inhabitants of Chaldea all their evil that they have done in Zion in your sight, before the eyes of the Jews, when they defiled the Lord's Sanctuary, saith the Lord.

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See also Jeremiah 51:24 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Jeremiah 51:24. _AND I WILL RENDER_] The ו _vau_ should be translated _but_, of which it has here the full power: "_But_ I will render unto Babylon....

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    EVIL. Hebrew. _ra'a'._ App-44. SAITH THE LORD. [is] Jehovah's oracle....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Babylon, after Jehovah has used it as the instrument by means of which to punish other nations, shall now be itself requited. "In your (the Jews") sight" is to be connected with the opening words of t...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Is it (_a_) Cyrus, as conqueror of Babylon, or (_b_) Babylon herself, that is addressed? Jeremiah 51:24 seems to support (_a_), but on the whole (_b_) is perhaps preferable. The future tenses can as w...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    AND I WILL RENDER UNTO BABYLON— _"But,_ though I have made Babylon the instrument of my vengeance towards others, _I will render unto Babylon all the evil which they have done in Zion, and these thing...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    D. Divine Destruction Jeremiah 51:11-26 TRANSLATION (11) Polish the arrows! Fill the shields! The LORD has aroused the spirit of the king of the Medes; for His purpose is against Babylon to destroy i...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    And I will render unto Babylon and to all the inhabitants of Chaldea all their evil that they have done in Zion in your sight, saith the LORD. I WILL RENDER UNTO BABYLON ... ALL THEIR EVIL THAT THE...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    1-14. The end of Babylon arrives....

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וְ שִׁלַּמְתִּ֨י לְ בָבֶ֜ל וּ לְ כֹ֣ל

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    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....

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    The Prophet, after having reminded the Jews that all that they had suffered from the Babylonians had been justly inflicted on account of their sins, and that God had been the author of all their calam...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    AND I WILL RENDER UNTO BABYLON, AND TO ALL THE INHABITANTS OF CHALDEA,.... Or, "but I will render" w, c. though I have made this use of Babylon, she shall not be spared, but receive her just recompens...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    And I will render unto Babylon and to all the inhabitants of Chaldea all their evil that they have done in Zion in your sight, saith the LORD. Ver. 24. _And I will render unto Babylon._] See Jeremiah...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Thou art my battle-axe_, &c. Cyrus, or rather the army of the Medes and Persians, seems to be intended here; compare Jeremiah 51:11; as elsewhere the instrument of God's vengeance is called a _sword_...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    The particle in the front of this verse, which our translators (understanding the four former verses of Cyrus) render and in a copulative sense, must be rendered _now_, or _but_, if the four former ve...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Jeremiah 51:24 repay H7999 (H8765) Babylon H894 inhabitants H3427 (H8802) Chaldea H3778 evil H7451 done H6213 ...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    YHWH'S WAR-CLUB (JEREMIAH 51:20). The speaker here is clearly YHWH. What is more difficult to determine is the identity of God's ‘war-club and weapons of war'. Note that the pronouns are singular. (‘T...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    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...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Thessalonians 2:15; 1 Thessalonians 2:16; Isaiah 47:6; Isaiah 51:22;...

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