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LAMBS ... RAMS ... HE GOATS - i. e., all classes of the population
(see Isaiah 34:6 note)....
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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...
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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...
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_lambs … rams … he-goats_ Cp. Jeremiah 50:27; Isaiah 34:6....
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B. The Complaint of Israel and the Reply of the Lord Jeremiah 51:34-40
TRANSLATION
(34) Nebuchadnezzar has devoured us, has crushed us, has set us down
like an empty vessel. Like a monster he has dev...
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_I WILL BRING THEM DOWN LIKE LAMBS TO THE SLAUGHTER, LIKE RAMS WITH HE
GOATS._ _ I WILL BRING THEM DOWN LIKE LAMBS TO THE SLAUGHTER, LIKE
RAMS WITH HE GOATS._
No JFB commentary on this verse....
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1-14. The end of Babylon arrives....
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I WILL BRING THEM DOWN LIKE LAMBS TO THE SLAUGHTER... — The figure
is changed, and the revellers appear as themselves destined to be the
victims of the slaughter-house (Jeremiah 48:15; Jeremiah 50:27)...
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אֹֽורִידֵ֖ם כְּ כָרִ֣ים לִ טְבֹ֑וחַ
כְּ אֵילִ
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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...
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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...
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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....
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This is a comparison different from the former, when the Prophet said
that they would be like lions, but as to roaring only. But he now
shows how easy would that ruin be when it should please God to d...
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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...
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I WILL BRING THEM DOWN LIKE LAMBS TO THE SLAUGHTER,.... To the place
of slaughter; who shall be able to make no more resistance than lambs.
This explains what is meant by being made drunk, and sleepin...
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I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with he
goats.
Ver. 40. _I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter._] All
that which followeth here to the end of this oration i...
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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...
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That is, they shall be destroyed before they are aware of it....
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Jeremiah 51:40 down H3381 (H8686) lambs H3733 slaughter H2873 (H8800)
rams H352 goats H6260...
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YHWH PROMISES THAT THEY WILL BE AVENGED (JEREMIAH 51:36).
God acknowledges the justice of their plea, and assures them that He
will take vengeance on their behalf. Evil cannot be allowed to
triumph, a...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Ezekiel 39:18; Isaiah 34:6; Jeremiah 50:27; Psalms 37:20; Psalms 44: