Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Jeremiah 50:11
Because — They rejoiced at the ruin of the Jews. Fat — The cause for which Babylon is threatened, was doubtless their luxury of all sorts commonly attending great wealth.
Because — They rejoiced at the ruin of the Jews. Fat — The cause for which Babylon is threatened, was doubtless their luxury of all sorts commonly attending great wealth.
Verse Jeremiah 50:11. _AS THE HEIFER AT GRASS_] Ye were wanton in the desolations ye brought upon Judea....
Or, “Chaldaea shall become a spoil ... for thou wast glad, thou exultedst, ye plunderers of mine heritage.” BECAUSE YE ARE GROWN FAT - Rather, for thou leapedst, skippedst as an animal does when play...
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...
DESTROYERS. spoilers, or plunderers....
Chaldaea shall be spoiled, because it rejoices in spoiling Israel....
_an heifer_ LXX render _calves_, which is better. _that treadeth out_the corn] mg. _at grass_, vocalising (with LXX) the Hebrew differently. The cattle were without muzzles when treading the corn (De...
B. Babylon's Desolation and Israel's Restoration Jeremiah 50:11-20 TRANSLATION (11) Because you laugh, because you rejoice, O plunderer of My heritage, because you scamper about like a heifer in the...
Because ye were glad, because ye rejoiced, O ye destroyers of mine heritage, because ye are grown fat as the heifer at grass, and bellow as bulls; BECAUSE YE WERE GLAD ... YE REJOICED, O YE DESTROY...
50:11 grass, (e-21) Or 'that treadeth out [the corn].'...
It is for exulting over Israel that Chaldea suffers. AT GRASS] RV 'that treadeth out _the corn.'_ The command in Deuteronomy 25:4 would have this effect....
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...
DESTROYERS OF MINE HERITAGE. — Better, _plunderers_ or _robbers._ YE ARE GROWN FAT AS THE HEIFER AT GRASS. — Better, the Hebrew text being in the singular, _thou leapedst as the heifer while threshing...
כִּ֤י _תִשְׂמְחוּ֙_† כִּ֣י _תַֽעַלְז֔וּ_† שֹׁסֵ֖י נַחֲלָתִ֑י כִּ֚י ת
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...
Because ye were glad, because ye rejoiced, O ye destroyers of my heritage, because ye are grown fat as the heifer at grass, (m) and bellow as bulls; (m) For joy of the victory that you had against my...
_Bulls. You have rioted in Juda, and treated my people cruelly. (Haydock) --- In Hebrew four verbs have improperly i for v; but [in] chap. li. 34., v supplants i five times. (Kennicott)_...
Let not the Reader overlook still further testimonies of divine favor to his poor outcasts, in that the Lord sends enemies to destroy Babylon, because Babylon had wasted his people. Ye rejoiced, said...
God shows here, that though the Chaldeans insolently exulted for a time, yet their joy would not continue; and at the same time he points out the cause of their ruin, even because they dealt so arroga...
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...
BECAUSE YE WERE GLAD, BECAUSE YE REJOICED, O YE DESTROYERS OF MINE HERITAGE,.... This is addressed to the Chaldeans who destroyed Jerusalem and the land of Judea, once the heritage of the Lord; when t...
Because ye were glad, because ye rejoiced, O ye destroyers of mine heritage, because ye are grown fat as the heifer at grass, and bellow as bulls; Ver. 11. _Because ye were glad, because ye rejoiced,...
_For, lo, I will raise against Babylon_, &c. See Jeremiah 50:41, and Jeremiah 51:27. _From thence_, or, as משׁם, may be rendered, _immediately, she shall be taken. Their arrows_, &c. The Medes and Per...
CHALDEA PUNISHED; ISRAEL REDEEMED...
Because ye were glad, because ye rejoiced, O ye destroyers of Mine heritage, the Chaldeans called so on account of the pillage committed by them in destroying Judah, BECAUSE YE ARE GROWN FAT AS THE HE...
FAT: _ Heb._ big or corpulent...
8-20 The desolation that shall be brought upon Babylon is set forth in a variety of expressions. The cause of this destruction is the wrath of the Lord. Babylon shall be wholly desolated; for she hat...
They REJOICED at the ruin of the Jews; the same thing is laid to the charge of the Edomites, OB 12. The Chaldeans were God's rod to scourge the Jews; but when men are made use of by God, as his rod an...
Jeremiah 50:11 glad H8055 (H8799) rejoiced H5937 (H8799) destroyers H8154 (H8802) heritage H5159 fat H6335 ...
THE REASON WHY BABYLON IS TO BE DESTROYED (JEREMIAH 50:11). We now learn the reason why Babylon is to be destroyed. It is because of YHWH's wrath at (His sense of aversion to) her sins. In the first p...
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...
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 50:11 Babylon once rejoiced over its destruction of Judah, God’s HERITAGE, like a calf frolicking or a stallion snorting. Soon Babylon will be ashamed and become an UTTER DES...
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)....
Amos 4:1; Deuteronomy 32:15; Ezekiel 25:15; Ezekiel 25:3; Ezekiel 2