Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Jeremiah 50:15
Given her hand — Acknowledging themselves overcome, and yielding. As she hath done — Unmerciful men find no mercy.
Given her hand — Acknowledging themselves overcome, and yielding. As she hath done — Unmerciful men find no mercy.
Verse Jeremiah 50:15. _SHOUT AGAINST HER ROUND ABOUT_] Encompass her with lines and with troops; let none _go in_ with relief, none _come out_ to escape from her ruin....
SHOUT - i. e., spoken of the war-cry. So in Isaiah 42:13, where God is compared to a warrior, it is said He shall shout (the King James Version cry), i. e., raise the war-cry. SITE HATH GIVEN HER HAND...
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...
GIVEN HER HAND. Put by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Adjunct), App-6, for what is done by it. Here the token of submission. Compare Lamentations 5:6; Ezekiel 17:18. AS. according as. Compare Revelat...
_submitted herself_ lit. as mg. _given her hand_. Cp. Genesis 24:2; Genesis 47:29; 2 Kings 10:15; 1 Chronicles 29:24 (mg.);...
SHE HATH GIVEN HER HAND— _Giving the hand,_ is a token of consenting to any conditions offered. See Exodus 10:15 and Lamentations 5:6. _Dare manus,_ (_to give the hand,_) in Latin signifies, _to yield...
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...
Shout against her round about: she hath given her hand: her foundations are fallen, her walls are thrown down: for it is the vengeance of the LORD: take vengeance upon her; as she hath done, do unto...
50:15 hand; (g-10) i.e. 'hath surrendered.'...
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...
GIVEN HER HAND] RV 'submitted herself,' surrendered. FOUNDALIONS] RV 'bulwarks.' Her walls are thrown down] not done by Cyrus, but (according to Herod, iii. 159) at the later capture by Darius....
SHE HATH GIVEN HER HAND. — The words paint the attitude of one who submits and stretches forth his hand, as a sign that he gives himself into the power of the conqueror. (Comp. Ezra 10:19; 2 Chronicle...
הָרִ֨יעוּ עָלֶ֤יהָ סָבִיב֙ נָתְנָ֣ה יָדָ֔הּ נָֽפְלוּ֙ _אָשְׁיֹותֶ֔יהָ_
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...
_Hand, to form leagues; or she faints, (Septuagint) and submits, Lamentations v. 6._...
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...
Jeremiah proceeds in exhorting the Persians and the Medes, not that he had ever spoken to them; but this mode of speaking, as it has been said, availed to confirm the minds of the godly, so that they...
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...
SHOUT AGAINST HER ROUND ABOUT,.... As soldiers do when they make an assault upon a place, to encourage one another, and dismay the besieged; just as the Israelites did when they surrounded Jericho: S...
Shout against her round about: she hath given her hand: her foundations are fallen, her walls are thrown down: for it [is] the vengeance of the LORD: take vengeance upon her; as she hath done, do unto...
_Your mother shall be sore confounded_ Namely, Babylon the metropolis, or mother-city of the empire. Or, your country shall be ashamed of you, her children, who are not able to defend her. _Behold, th...
CHALDEA PUNISHED; ISRAEL REDEEMED...
Shout against her round about, encouraging one another with loud and fierce battle-cries; SHE HATH GIVEN HER HAND, thereby submitting to the conquerors; HER FOUNDATIONS ARE FALLEN, the fortifications...
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...
SHOUT AGAINST HER ROUND ABOUT; either as soldiers use to shout when they fall upon their enemy, or as they use to shout and triumph when they are entered city, or whet their enemies flee. SHE HATH GIV...
Jeremiah 50:15 Shout H7321 (H8685) around H5439 given H5414 (H8804) hand H3027 foundations H803 fallen H5307 ...
THE CALL FOR ITS DESTRUCTION (JEREMIAH 50:14). In view of the heinousness of her sins God will exact vengeance on Babylon, by exacting from her what she has exacted from others. And this was not only...
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 50:14 Just as Judah and Israel faced defeat because they SINNED AGAINST THE LORD, the same will happen to BABYLON for the same reason. Babylon’s defeat is
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 Chronicles 29:24; 1 Samuel 15:33; 2 Chronicles 30:8; 2 Thessalonians 1:8;...