Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Jeremiah 51:48
Then — All the creatures in heaven and earth shall rejoice at the vengeance which God shall take upon Babylon.
Then — All the creatures in heaven and earth shall rejoice at the vengeance which God shall take upon Babylon.
Verse Jeremiah 51:48. _THE HEAVEN AND THE EARTH - SHALL SING FOR BABYLON_] Its fall shall be a subject of universal rejoicing....
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...
THE HEAVEN... SHALL SING. Figure of speech _Poeanismos_ and _Prosopopoeia._ ALL THAT IS THEREIN. Compare Revelation 19:1....
The LXX omit from "yea, the wall" (Jeremiah 51:44) to "the slain of Israel to fall" (Jeremiah 51:49), but the omission is probably accidental, the scribe's eye passing from the first "Babylon shall fa...
_shall sing for joy over Babylon_ shall rejoice over her fall....
D. Babylon's Retribution and Israel's Return Jeremiah 51:47-53 TRANSLATION (47) Therefore, the days are coming when I will punish the images of Babylon, and all her land shall be put to shame; her sl...
Then the heaven and the earth, and all that is therein, shall sing for Babylon: for the spoilers shall come unto her from the north, saith the LORD. THE HEAVEN AND THE EARTH ... SHALL SING FOR BABY...
SHALL SING FOR] RV 'shall sing for joy over.'...
1-14. The end of Babylon arrives....
THEN THE HEAVEN AND THE EARTH... — The prophet, following in the track of Isaiah (Isaiah 44:23), thinks of the whole creation as rejoicing in the righteous judgment of Jehovah on the guilty city, and...
וְ רִנְּנ֤וּ עַל ־בָּבֶל֙ שָׁמַ֣יִם וָ אָ֔רֶץ
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...
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...
Then the heaven and (c) the earth, and all that [is] in them, shall sing for Babylon: for the spoilers shall come to her from the north, saith the LORD. (c) All creatures in heaven and earth will rej...
_Praise, for the just punishment. (Haydock) --- The crimes were public. (Calmet)_...
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...
That, he might more fully convince the Jews of the truth of all that he has hitherto said of the destruction of Babylon, he declares that God would effect it, and that it would be applauded by all the...
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...
THEN THE HEAVEN AND THE EARTH, AND ALL THAT [IS] THEREIN, SHALL SING FOR BABYLON,.... At the destruction of her, rejoicing at it; not at the ruin of fellow creatures, simply considered; but relativel...
Then the heaven and the earth, and all that [is] therein, shall sing for Babylon: for the spoilers shall come unto her from the north, saith the LORD. Ver. 48. _Then the heaven and the earth, &c., sh...
_Therefore behold_, or rather, _Then soon, the days come that I will do judgment upon the graven images_, &c. That is, cause the statues of the gods of Babylon to be broken to pieces, or carried away....
Then the heaven and the earth and all that is therein shall sing for Babylon, rejoicing over her fall; FOR THE SPOILERS SHALL COME UNTO HER FROM THE NORTH, SAITH THE LORD, and the sentence executed by...
THE WORK OF THE SPOILERS...
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...
All the creatures in heaven and earth. shall rejoice at the vengeance which God shall take upon Babylon, which had been the destroyer of so many of their people. The Median soldiers are those here cal...
Jeremiah 51:48 heavens H8064 earth H776 sing H7442 (H8765) Babylon H894 plunderers H7703 (H8802) come H935 ...
THE REASONS FOR BABYLON'S DEMISE (JEREMIAH 51:47). We now learn again the reasons for Babylon's demise. It was because of her graven images (Jeremiah 51:47), with all their para-normal ramifications ...
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...
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...
JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 51:48 All of creation will SING FOR JOY when BABYLON, the great destroyer, falls. ⇐
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...
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...
Isaiah 44:23; Isaiah 48:20; Isaiah 49:13; Jeremiah 50:3; Jeremiah