Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary
Jeremiah 51:38
Yell - Or, growl.
Yell - Or, growl.
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...
YELL: or, shake themselves....
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...
They shall roar together like lions: they shall yell as lions' whelps. 39. THEY SHALL ROAR ... THEY SHALL YELL. The capture of Babylon was effected on the night of a festival in honour of its idols...
1-14. The end of Babylon arrives....
THEY SHALL ROAR TOGETHER LIKE LIONS... — The words are not a continuation of the picture of the preceding verse, but carry us to the scene of revelry that preceded the capture of the city. The princes...
יַחְדָּ֖ו כַּ † כְּפִרִ֣ים יִשְׁאָ֑גוּ נָעֲר֖וּ כְּ...
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...
_Roar. They shall retain their haughty air and threaten others, when they themselves shall fall (Calmet) in the midst of their feasting, Daniel v. 30. (Xenophon vii.)_...
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....
Here, by another figure, Jeremiah expresses what he had said of the destruction of Babylon, even that in the middle of the slaughter, they would have no strength to resist: they would, at the same tim...
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...
THEY SHALL ROAR TOGETHER LIKE LIONS,.... Some understand this of the Medes and Persians, and the shouts they made at the attacking and taking of Babylon; but this does not so well agree with that, whi...
They shall roar together like lions: they shall yell as lions' whelps. Ver. 38. _They shall roar together like lions._] When hunger bitten. The Babylonians terrified, and the Persians tumultuating to...
_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...
They shall roar together like lions, shouting in drunken revelry; THEY SHALL YELL AS LIONS' WHELPS, growling over their food. This probably is a reference to the fact that Babylon was taken on a night...
YELL: Or, shake themselves...
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...
It is uncertain whether this be to be understood of the Medes, making horrible roarings and noises when they took Babylon; or of the Babylonians, who upon the taking of their city (as is usual) made h...
Jeremiah 51:38 roar H7580 (H8799) together H3162 lions H3715 growl H5286 (H8804) lions H738 whelps H1484...
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...
Isaiah 35:9; Jeremiah 2:15; Job 4:10; Job 4:11; Judges 16:20;...
They — The Babylonians, upon the taking of their city....