The people of God are like a stray sheep, driven hither and thither and preyed upon by savage beasts.
first the king of Assyria, etc.] in deporting the Northern tribes.
and last … bones The people, weakened by the captivity of the Ten Tribes, have afterwards had the feeble remnant of their strength crushed at the hands of Babylon.
Verse Jeremiah 50:17. _ISRAEL_] All the descendants of Jacob have been harassed and spoiled, first by the Assyrians, and afterwards by the Chaldeans. They acted towards them as a lion to a sheep which...
ISRAEL IS A SCATTERED SHEEP - i. e., is like a flock which has been scared and driven in all directions, for lions have chased him. FIRST THE KING ... - Rather, the first lion “ate him, even the king...
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...
ISRAEL. Now. united nation. See note on Jeremiah 50:4. LAST. See note on "hindermost", Jeremiah 50:12....
ISRAEL IS A SCATTERED SHEEP— See Jeremiah 50:6. "As a lion coming among a flock of sheep scatters them one from another; so have these foreign invaders served my people." See chap. Jeremiah 2:15 Jerem...
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...
Israel is a scattered sheep; the lions have driven him away: first the king of Assyria hath devoured him; and last this Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon hath broken his bones. ISRAEL IS A SCATTERED S...
The lions] The sculptured winged lions (Assyrian and Babylonian) give the image a special point. Assyria had devoured the Ten Tribes, and now Babylon was crushing the feeble remnant of the people. Ass...
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...
ISRAEL IS A SCATTERED SHEEP... — The words paint vividly the two blows that had fallen on Israel, as a sheep driven from the fold: first from the Assyrian conquest of the northern kingdom by Salmanese...
שֶׂ֧ה פְזוּרָ֛ה יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל אֲרָיֹ֣ות הִדִּ֑יחוּ הָ...
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...
Israel [is] a scattered sheep; the lions have driven [him] away: first the king of (r) Assyria hath devoured him; and last this Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon hath broken his (s) bones. (r) Meaning T...
_Bones. He completely ruined the nation, which the Assyrians had left. (Haydock) --- They led the ten tribes away, and the Chaldeans took the rest, 4 Kings xviii., and xxv. (Worthington)_...
Every verse in this passage is peculiarly striking and gracious. Observe how the Lord speaks tenderly in behalf of his people, and contemptuously of their enemies. A scattered sheep fallen into the ja...
Here the Prophet more clearly shows what he had briefly referred to, even that God was thus incensed against the Babylonians, because he had undertaken the cause of the people whom he had chosen. Then...
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...
ISRAEL [IS] A SCATTERED SHEEP,.... Or like a sheep that is frightened and drove from the fold, and is dispersed, and wanders about here and there; Israel includes all the twelve tribes: THE LIONS HAV...
Israel [is] a scattered sheep; the lions have driven [him] away: first the king of Assyria hath devoured him; and last this Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon hath broken his bones. Ver. 17. _First the k...
_Israel is a scattered sheep_ See note on Jeremiah 50:6. _The lions have driven him away_ As a lion coming among a flock of sheep scatters them one from another; so have these foreign invaders, enemie...
CHALDEA PUNISHED; ISRAEL REDEEMED...
Israel is a scattered sheep, like a lonely sheep driven away from its flock, THE LIONS HAVE DRIVEN HIM AWAY, the enemies chasing him far from his homeland; FIRST, THE KING OF ASSYRIA HATH DEVOURED HIM...
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...
By ISRAEL is here meant the whole twelve tribes (though sometimes it signifieth the ten tribes in opposition to Judah); they were all wandering sheep, they became penally _scattered sheep_. Enemies as...
Jeremiah 50:17 Israel H3478 scattered H6340 (H8801) sheep H7716 lions H738 away H5080 (H8689) First H7223 king...
THOSE WHO MISUSE GOD'S PEOPLE WILL BE PUNISHED ACCORDINGLY WHILST THE RESTORATION OF HIS PEOPLE IS SURE (JEREMIAH 50:17). Babylon's great crime lay in what it had done to God's people. Like Assyria be...
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...
_Israel is a scattered sheep._ I. View God’s people, the spiritual Israel, as scattered sheep (Jeremiah 50:17). 1. They were sheep going astray. Scattered over the world. 2. Marked, noted, contempl...
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 Peter 2:25; 2 Chronicles 28:20; 2 Chronicles 32:1; 2 Chronicles 33:11;...
Israel — The whole twelve tribes. Lions — Enemies cruel as lions had carried them into captivity....