I will raise - Or, stir up.
An assembly of great nations - The Medo-Persian empire was as much an aggregate of discordant nations as that of Babylon.
From thence - From the north, i. e., by the great nations coming thence.
Return in vain - A proverbial expression for ill success (compare Isaiah 55:11). Here the skillful warrior returns not empty.
Verse Jeremiah 50:9. _AN ASSEMBLY OF GREAT NATIONS_] The army of Cyrus was composed of Medes, Persians, Armenians, Caducians, Sacae, c. Though all these did not come from the _north_ yet they were arr...
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...
ASSEMBLY. a gathered host, or convocation. great nations. Compare Isaiah 13:3; Isaiah 13:4. MIGHTY... MAN. Hebrew. _gibbor._ App-14. EXPERT. successful. Compare Jeremiah 10:21;...
_an assembly of great nations_ such as Ararat, Minni, Ashkenaz. Cp. Jeremiah 51:27 f. _an expert mighty man_ better than the mg. _a mighty man that maketh childless_. In the Heb. the two readings dif...
CHAPTER NINETEEN GOD AND BABYLON Jeremiah 50:1 to Jeremiah 51:64 e Eichorn was the first to deny the authenticity of Chapter s 50-51 and he has been followed by most modern critics. Cornill affirms...
For, lo, I will raise and cause to come up against Babylon an assembly of great nations from the north country: and they shall set themselves in array against her; from thence she shall be taken: the...
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...
AN ASSEMBLY OF GREAT NATIONS] see for some of them Jeremiah 51:27. Herodotus (vii. 61f.) says there were twenty-two....
AN ASSEMBLY OF GREAT NATIONS FROM THE NORTH COUNTRY. — Like all the great monarchies of the East, the Medo-Persian kingdom, which was to be the destroyer of Babylon, was made up of a congeries of many...
כִּ֣י הִנֵּ֣ה אָנֹכִ֡י מֵעִיר֩ וּ מַעֲלֶ֨ה עַ
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...
Nations. Cyrus had Armenians, &c., in his army. (Calmet) --- Thence, by the bed of the Euphrates, the waters of which were mostly let out into the marshes. Thus the city was taken, while the people we...
Let not the Reader overlook still further testimonies of divine favor to his poor outcasts, in that the Lord sends enemies to destroy Babylon, because Babylon had wasted his people. Ye rejoiced, said...
Here, again, God declares that enemies would come and overthrow the monarchy of Babylon; but what has been before referred to is here more clearly expressed. For he says, first, that he would be the l...
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...
FOR, LO, I WILL RAISE AND CAUSE TO COME UP AGAINST BABYLON,.... The work was of the Lord; it was he that would give a commission and a command to the enemies of Babylon; that would incline them, and s...
For, lo, I will raise and cause to come up against Babylon an assembly of great nations from the north country: and they shall set themselves in array against her; from thence she shall be taken: thei...
_For, lo, I will raise against Babylon_, &c. See Jeremiah 50:41, and Jeremiah 51:27. _From thence_, or, as משׁם, may be rendered, _immediately, she shall be taken. Their arrows_, &c. The Medes and Per...
For, lo, I will raise, and cause to come up, against Babylon an assembly of great nations from the North country, an army composed of representatives of many nations; AND THEY SHALL SET THEMSELVES IN...
CHALDEA PUNISHED; ISRAEL REDEEMED...
EXPERT MAN: Or, destroyer...
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...
He means the Medes and Persians, as it is expounded afterward. THEIR ARROWS SHALL BE AS OF A MIGHTY EXPERT MAN; NONE SHALL RETURN IN VAIN; I will so direct their arrows, that every arrow they shoot sh...
Jeremiah 50:9 raise H5782 (H8688) up H5927 (H8688) Babylon H894 assembly H6951 great H1419 nations H1471 north...
GOD'S CALL TO HIS ERRANT PEOPLE TO FLEE FROM BABYLON BECAUSE THE WRATH OF YHWH IS COMING ON IT (JEREMIAH 50:6). Israel's plight is described as resulting from her backslidden condition, a plight seen...
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...
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)....
Jeremiah 15:14; Jeremiah 51:11; Jeremiah 51:1; Jeremiah 51:27;...