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Verse 56. _THE LORD GOD OF RECOMPENSES_] The fall of Babylon is an act
of Divine justice; whatever it suffers, it is in consequence of its
crimes....
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EVERY ONE ... - Or, “Their bows are broken, for Yahweh is a God of
recompenses; He will certainly requite.”...
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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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GOD. Hebrew El. App-4. The Hebrew reads "El of recompences, Jehovah"....
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E. The Final Pronouncement Against Babylon Jeremiah 51:54-58
TRANSLATION
(54) Hark! A cry from Babylon, and great destruction from the land of
the Chaldeans. (55) For the LORD is destroying Babylon,...
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Because the spoiler is come upon her, even upon Babylon, and her
mighty men are taken, every one of their bows is broken: for the LORD
God of recompences shall surely requite.
HER MIGHTY MEN ARE T...
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51:56 *God (d-25) _ El_ , only twice in Jeremiah, here, and ch. 32.18;
once in Lam., ch. 3.41....
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1-14. The end of Babylon arrives....
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THE LORD GOD OF RECOMPENCES... — The prophet clothes the law of
retribution which he has been asserting throughout the chapter with a
new majesty by connecting it with a new Divine Name (comp. Jeremia...
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כִּי֩ בָ֨א עָלֶ֤יהָ עַל ־בָּבֶל֙
שֹׁודֵ֔ד וְ
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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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If the Reader will compare what is here said, with what is said of
mystic Babylon in the New Testament, he will soon perceive what a
striking resemblance there is between things temporal and spiritual...
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He confirms the former verse; for as the thing of which he speaks was
difficult to be believed, he sets God before them, and shows that he
would be the author of that war. He now continues his discour...
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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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BECAUSE THE SPOILER IS COME UPON HER, [EVEN] UPON BABYLON,.... That
is, Cyrus, with his army:
AND HER MIGHTY MEN ARE TAKEN; unawares, by surprise:
EVERYONE OF THEIR BOWS IS BROKEN; they had no stren...
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_Because the Lord hath spoiled Babylon, and destroyed out of her the
great voice_ “When cities are populous, they are of course noisy:
see Isaiah 22:2. Silence is therefore a mark of depopulation; and...
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THE WORK OF THE SPOILERS...
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Because the spoiler is come upon her, even upon Babylon, and her
mighty men are taken, her greatest champions and heroes being obliged
to submit without a struggle, since resistance was impossible, EV...
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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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Little more is said here than was before, only the words hint the
taking of Babylon by a surprise, when the kin and the inhabitants were
not aware of it, which he had be fore also told us, JEREMIAH 51...
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Jeremiah 51:56 plunderer H7703 (H8802) comes H935 (H8804) Babylon H894
men H1368 taken H3920 (H8738) bows...
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A PROPHETIC DESCRIPTION OF THE FULFILMENT OF YHWH'S WORD SPOKEN
AGAINST BABYLON AND CONFIRMATION THAT IT WOULD BE SO (JEREMIAH 51:54).
The section dealing with YHWH's word against Babylon, which began...
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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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1 Samuel 2:4; 2 Thessalonians 1:6; Deuteronomy 32:35; Ezekiel 39:3;...
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Because — Little more is said here than was before, only the words
hint the taking of Babylon by a surprize when the king, and the
inhabitants were not aware of it, which we had before also told us,
J...