Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Jeremiah 51:58
Weary — Though the people should labour to quench this fire, or to rebuild this city, yet it would be all lost labour.
Weary — Though the people should labour to quench this fire, or to rebuild this city, yet it would be all lost labour.
Verse 58. _THE BROAD WALLS OF BABYLON_] Herodotus, who saw these walls, says, "The city was a regular square, each side of which was _one hundred and twenty_ stadia, the circumference _four hundred_...
THE BROAD WALLS - Herodotus makes the breadth of the walls 85 English feet. BROKEN - See the margin. i. e., the ground beneath them shall be laid bare by their demolition. THE PEOPLE - Or, peoples. J...
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...
WALLS. Some codices, with two early printed editions, Septuagint, and Vulgate, read "wall". PEOPLE. peoples. BE WEARY. faint....
_The broad walls of Babylon_ better than mg. _The walls of broad Babylon_, We should, with LXX, read _wall_. According to Herodotus, the outer wall of Babylon was 200 royal cubits (about 373 English f...
THE BROAD WALLS OF BABYLON SHALL BE UTTERLY BROKEN— See Isaiah 47:7; Isaiah 47:13. Houbigant reads the latter part of the verse, _And the people shall labour for a thing of nought, and exhaust their s...
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,...
Thus saith the LORD of hosts; The broad walls of Babylon shall be utterly broken, and her high gates shall be burned with fire; and the people shall labour in vain, and the folk in the fire, and they...
51:58 bare, (e-15) Or 'undermined.' nations (f-36) _ Leummim_ , Psalms 2:1 ....
1-14. The end of Babylon arrives....
BROAD WALLS] They were 30 or 40 ft. wide: see Herod, i. 178. AND THE PEOPLE.. SHALL BE WEARY] The labour expended on these splendid edifices will have been in vain....
HER HIGH GATES SHALL BE BURNED WITH FIRE. — These were part of the works on which Nebuchadnezzar prided himself as the restorer of the city. The inscription already quoted refers to these as well as t...
כֹּֽה ־אָמַ֞ר יְהוָ֣ה צְבָאֹ֗ות חֹ֠מֹות בָּבֶ֤ל...
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...
Thus saith the LORD of hosts; The (i) broad walls of Babylon shall be utterly broken, and her high gates shall be burned with fire; and the people shall labour in vain, and the people in the fire, and...
Broad wall. The pagan historians agree not in the dimensions, but allow it was excessively broad and lofty. (Calmet) --- Six chariots might go abreast. It was 360 stadia long, (Ctesias); or 480 (Herod...
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...
The Prophet again introduces God as the speaker, that what he said might obtain more attention from the Jews; and for this reason he subjoined a eulogy to the last verse, and said that the _king _spok...
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...
THUS SAITH THE LORD OF HOSTS,.... Because what follows might seem incredible ever to be effected; it is introduced with this preface, expressed by him who is the God of truth, and the Lord God omnipot...
Thus saith the LORD of hosts; The broad walls of Babylon shall be utterly broken, and her high gates shall be burned with fire; and the people shall labour in vain, and the folk in the fire, and they...
_The broad walls of Babylon shall be utterly broken_, &c. That the walls of Babylon were of a prodigious height and thickness, Herodotus tells, who says, they were 200 cubits high, and 50 cubits in br...
THE WORK OF THE SPOILERS...
Thus saith the Lord of hosts, in a final summary of His warning and threat against Babylon, THE BROAD WALLS OF BABYLON, which, according to some accounts, were so broad that two four-horse chariots co...
THE BROAD WALL OF BABYLON: Or, The walls of broad Babylon BROKEN: Or, made naked...
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...
Incredible things are told us by historians of this great city. They say the compass of it was threescore miles about; that her walls were in height two hundred feet, her breadth such as two chariots...
Jeremiah 51:58 says H559 (H8804) LORD H3068 hosts H6635 broad H7342 walls H2346 Babylon H894 utterly H6209 ...
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...
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 51:58 BROAD WALL OF BABYLON. See note on v. 44. HIGH GATES. Babylon’s walls and gates were for defensive purposes, but they could not protect her in the e
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...
Habakkuk 2:13; Isaiah 45:1; Isaiah 45:2; Isaiah 65:23; Jeremiah 50:15