Verse Jeremiah 51:36. _I WILL DRY UP HER SEA_] Exhaust all her treasures....
HER SEA - Probably the great lake dug by Nitocris to receive the waters of the Euphrates. HER SPRINGS - Her reservoir; the whole system of canals dug Jeremiah 51:13. The wealth of Babylonia depended...
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...
DRY UP. Referring to the act of Cyrus (by Gobryas). Compare Jeremiah 51:31, above. SEA. the river Euphrates. So called from its breadth....
Jehovah replies favourably to the demand for vengeance on Babylon. _her sea … her fountain_ either the Euphrates (cp. the word "sea" as applied to the river Nile in Isaiah 18:2; Isaiah 19:5; Nahum 3:8...
HER SEA— That is to say, _her river_ [Euphrates]...
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...
Therefore thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will plead thy cause, and take vengeance for thee; and I will dry up her sea, and make her springs dry. THUS SAITH THE LORD; BEHOLD, I WILL PLEAD THY CAUSE...
51:36 sea, (e-22) i.e. the Euphrates. see Isaiah 19:5 ....
1-14. The end of Babylon arrives....
SEA] a great lake, or reservoir, made by the Babylonish queen Nitocris. SPRINGS] RV 'fountain,' referring to the network of canals dug for commerce and irrigation....
I WILL DRY UP HER SEA... — The nouns have been variously interpreted, some commentators referring it to the “sea” of confluent nations, and finding the wealth of Babylon in the “springs” that fed its...
לָכֵ֗ן כֹּ֚ה אָמַ֣ר יְהוָ֔ה הִנְנִי ־רָב֙ אֶת
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...
Therefore thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will plead thy (u) cause, and take vengeance for thee; and I will dry up her sea, and make her springs dry. (u) Thus the Lord esteemed the injury done to his...
_Spring; commerce, the source of her riches; or rather the waters shall be brought out of their usual channels. For many ages (Calmet) the Euphrates has been lost in sands, and reaches not the Persian...
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....
Then follows a clearer explanation, when God promises that he would be the avenger of his chosen people, and that whatever the Jews had suffered would be rendered to Babylon: _Therefore thus saith Jeh...
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...
THEREFORE THUS SAITH THE LORD,.... In answer to the prayers of the inhabitants of Zion and Jerusalem, imprecating divine vengeance on Babylon: BEHOLD, I WILL PLEAD THY CAUSE, AND TAKE VENGEANCE FOR T...
Therefore thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will plead thy cause, and take vengeance for thee; and I will dry up her sea, and make her springs dry. Ver. 36. _Behold, I will plead thy cause._] Not so muc...
_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...
THE WORK OF THE SPOILERS...
Therefore, thus saith the Lord, in answering this cry of His children, BEHOLD, I WILL PLEAD THY CAUSE AND TAKE VENGEANCE FOR THEE, acting as the Advocate in defending the rights of His people; AND I W...
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...
Men had need take heed how they give cause of appeals to God against them, especially the appeals of such as are a people that have a covenant relation to God. God in those cases ordinarily showeth hi...
Jeremiah 51:36 says H559 (H8804) LORD H3068 plead H7378 (H8801) case H7379 vengeance H5358 (H8765) you...
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...
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...
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...
Deuteronomy 32:35; Deuteronomy 32:43; Habakkuk 2:8; Hebrews 10:30;...
Dry up — Alluding to what Cyrus did....