Behold, I [am] against thee, [O thou] most proud, saith the Lord GOD of hosts: for thy day is come, the time [that] I will visit thee.
Ver. 31. Behold, I am against thee, O most proud.] Heb., O pride, in the abstract - i.e., O Belshazzar; as of a certain Pope was said,
“ Conditur hoc tumulo et scelus et vitium. ”
Verse Jeremiah 50:31. _O THOU MOST PROUD_] זדון _zadon_. PRIDE in the abstract; proudest of all people....
Babylon is here called Pride, just as in Jeremiah 50:21 she was called Double-rebellion....
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...
_O thou proud one … the proud one_ Heb. as mg. (_O Pride_and _Pride_respectively), applied as a proper name to Babylon. With these _vv_. cp. Jeremiah 21:13 f....
D. Babylon's Recompense and Israel's Redemption Jeremiah 50:29-34 TRANSLATION (29) Summon against Babylon archers, all who handle the bow! Encamp against her round about! Let no one escape! Repay her...
Behold, I am against thee, O thou most proud, saith the Lord GOD of hosts: for thy day is come, the time that I will visit thee. O THOU MOST PROUD - literally, pride - i:e., man of pride; the King...
50:31 one, (c-7) Lit. 'pride,' as ch. 49.16. It is Babylon personified....
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...
O THOU MOST PROUD. — Literally, _O Pride,_ the prophet using the word (_Zadon_) as a proper name for Babylon, as he had before used Merathaim and Pekod (Jeremiah 50:21). It is analogous in its meaning...
הִנְנִ֤י אֵלֶ֨יךָ֙ זָדֹ֔ון נְאֻם ־אֲדֹנָ֥י יְהוִ֖ה...
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...
_Proud. So the Chaldeans are often styled in the Psalms. (Calmet) --- The prophet addresses Nabuchodonosor, or rather Baltassar, (Menochius) under whom the city was taken, (Josephus, &c.) by Darius an...
I only detain the Reader, to make one remark on this passage, though it furnisheth out many; and the one I beg the Reader particularly to observe is, in my view, a most important one; namely, that Bab...
Jeremiah, in order more fully to confirm what he had said, again introduces God as the speaker. And we have stated how necessary this was, because he could have hardly gained credit otherwise to his p...
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...
BEHOLD, I [AM] AGAINST THEE, [O THOU] MOST PROUD, SAITH THE LORD GOD OF HOSTS,.... Or, O "pride", or O "man of pride" i; intolerably proud, superlatively so, as the kings of Babylon were, as Nebuchadn...
_The Lord hath opened his armory_, &c. God hath raised up enemies to subdue the Chaldeans, namely, Cyrus and his confederates, and hath furnished them with all the means necessary for such an undertak...
THE ENEMIES OF BABYLON SUMMONED TO THE ATTACK...
Behold, I am against thee, O thou most proud, saith the Lord God of hosts, coming to teach her humility; FOR THY DAY IS COME, THE TIME THAT I WILL VISIT THEE, to bring His punishment upon her in full...
PROUD: _ Heb._ pride...
21-32 The forces are mustered and empowered to destroy Babylon. Let them do what God demands, and they shall bring to pass what he threatens. The pride of men's hearts sets God against them, and ripen...
Babylon is particularly branded for pride, which is the swelling of a man's heart in a self-opinion, caused from something wherein he excelleth, or thinks that he excelleth, another, We have a large a...
Jeremiah 50:31 haughty H2087 says H5002 (H8803) Lord H136 GOD H3069 hosts H6635 day H3117 come H935 ...
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...
YHWH CALLS ON THE NATIONS TO FULFIL HIS WILL AS REGARDS BABYLON (JEREMIAH 50:21). We should note here how personal God's involvement is seen to be in the judgment coming on Babylon. It is in accordanc...
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...
JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 50:31 O PROUD ONE. As was true of Assyria (Isaiah 10:5), Babylon’s pride was the cause of its downfall....
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 Peter 5:5; Daniel 4:30; Daniel 4:31; Ezekiel 29:10; Ezekiel 29:3;...