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Jeremiah 51:37

heaps "Vast -heaps" or mounds, shapeless and unsightly, are scattered at intervals over the entire region where it is certain that Babylon anciently stood." (Rawl. Anc. Mon. II. 521.)

hissing See on Jeremiah 18:16.

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See also Jeremiah 51:37 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Jeremiah 51:37. _WITHOUT AN INHABITANT._] See Jeremiah 50:39....

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    HEAPS - Of rubbish, formed in this case by the decay of the unburned bricks of which Babylon was built. It is these heaps which have yielded such a large wealth of historical documents in our own days...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    DRAGONS. jackals. WITHOUT AN INHABITANT. This carries us on to the future again. Compare 1 Peter 5:13....

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    B. The Complaint of Israel and the Reply of the Lord Jeremiah 51:34-40 TRANSLATION (34) Nebuchadnezzar has devoured us, has crushed us, has set us down like an empty vessel. Like a monster he has dev...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    And Babylon shall become heaps, a dwellingplace for dragons, an astonishment, and an hissing, without an inhabitant. BABYLON SHALL BECOME HEAPS, A DWELLING-PLACE FOR DRAGONS - (; ; )....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    DRAGONS] RV 'jackals.'...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    1-14. The end of Babylon arrives....

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    BABYLON SHALL BECOME HEAPS... — It is significant, as emphasising the law of retribution, that the terms are the same as those used of Jerusalem in Jeremiah 9:11; Jeremiah 19:8; Jeremiah 25:9;...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וְ הָיְתָה֩ בָבֶ֨ל ׀ לְ גַלִּ֧ים ׀ מְעֹון ־תּ

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Dragons. This has been the case for above sixteen centuries, chap. l. 31., and Isaias xiii. 21._...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    Is not this command to the people of God, to go out of Babylon, the same as gospel precepts, 2 Corinthians 6:17; Revelation 18:4....

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    He confirms what he had said, that when God raised his hand against Babylon, such would be its destruction, that the splendor, which before astonished all nations, would be reduced to nothing. Perish,...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    AND BABYLON SHALL BECOME HEAPS,.... The houses should be demolished, and the stones lie in heaps one upon another, and become mere rubbish: A DWELLING PLACE FOR DRAGONS; and other wild and savage cre...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    And Babylon shall become heaps, a dwellingplace for dragons, an astonishment, and an hissing, without an inhabitant. Ver. 37. _And Babylon shall become heaps._] See Jeremiah 50:39 ....

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Thus saith the Lord, I will plead thy cause_ This is, as it were, God's answer to the prayers and imprecations of the Jewish people, mentioned in the two foregoing verses. _I will dry up her sea, and...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE WORK OF THE SPOILERS...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    And Babylon shall become heaps, abandoned ruins, A DWELLING-PLACE FOR DRAGONS, of jackals, AN ASTONISHMENT, AND AN HISSING, WITHOUT AN INHABITANT....

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    BABYLON SHALL BECOME HEAPS; heaps of rubbish. A DWELLING-PLACE FOR DRAGONS, AN ASTONISHMENT, AND AN HISSING, WITHOUT AN INHABITANT. SEE POOLE ON "JEREMIAH 50:39", SEE POOLE ON "JEREMIAH 50:40", where...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Jeremiah 51:37 Babylon H894 heap H1530 place H4583 jackals H8577 astonishment H8047 hissing H8322 inhabitant H3427 ...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    YHWH PROMISES THAT THEY WILL BE AVENGED (JEREMIAH 51:36). God acknowledges the justice of their plea, and assures them that He will take vengeance on their behalf. Evil cannot be allowed to triumph, a...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    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...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    2 Chronicles 29:8; Isaiah 13:19; Isaiah 14:23; Isaiah 34:8;...

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