Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary
Jeremiah 51:47
Therefore - The exiles were to note these things as signs of the approach of God’s visitation.
Confounded - Or, ashamed.
Therefore - The exiles were to note these things as signs of the approach of God’s visitation.
Confounded - Or, ashamed.
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...
DO JUDGMENT UPON. visit upon....
The LXX omit from "yea, the wall" (Jeremiah 51:44) to "the slain of Israel to fall" (Jeremiah 51:49), but the omission is probably accidental, the scribe's eye passing from the first "Babylon shall fa...
The _v_. is suspicious; for (_a_) it closely resembles Jeremiah 51:52 in language, (_b_) "Therefore" is unsuitable here, while it fits Jeremiah 51:52, from which it may be taken. Co. for "graven image...
THEREFORE, BEHOLD— _For, behold._ Instead of _all her slain,_ Houbigant reads _all her wounded,_ as in Jeremiah 51:4 and Kennicott _all her soldiers:_ and so in the 49th verse, the latter reads, _as B...
D. Babylon's Retribution and Israel's Return Jeremiah 51:47-53 TRANSLATION (47) Therefore, the days are coming when I will punish the images of Babylon, and all her land shall be put to shame; her sl...
Therefore, behold, the days come, that I will do judgment upon the graven images of Babylon: and her whole land shall be confounded, and all her slain shall fall in the midst of her. THEREFORE, BEH...
1-14. The end of Babylon arrives....
THEREFORE, BEHOLD, THE DAYS COME... — The first word has its full force. The Israelite exiles were to infer from the rumours and disorders of the preceding verse, that the day of vengeance was at hand...
לָכֵן֙ הִנֵּ֣ה יָמִ֣ים בָּאִ֔ים וּ פָקַדְתִּי֙...
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...
_Idols; Bel, &c., ver. 41. --- Slain. Hebrew, "dancers." The people were feasting. (Calmet) --- It means also "slain," (Protestants) or "soldiers."_...
If the Reader will compare what is here said, with what is said of mystic Babylon in the New Testament, he will soon perceive what a striking resemblance there is between things temporal and spiritual...
He repeats a former sentence, that _God would visit the idols of Babylon _He does not speak now of Bel only, but includes all the false gods. We have already said why God raised his hand against idols...
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, BEHOLD, THE DAYS COME THAT I WILL DO JUDGMENT ON THE GRAVEN IMAGES OF BABYLON,.... Because of the connection of these words, some understand Jeremiah 51:46 of the report of the deliverance...
Therefore, behold, the days come, that I will do judgment upon the graven images of Babylon: and her whole land shall be confounded, and all her slain shall fall in the midst of her. Ver. 47. _I will...
_Therefore behold_, or rather, _Then soon, the days come that I will do judgment upon the graven images_, &c. That is, cause the statues of the gods of Babylon to be broken to pieces, or carried away....
THE WORK OF THE SPOILERS...
Therefore, behold, the days come that I will do judgment upon the graven images of Babylon, executing His sentence of destruction upon them; AND HER WHOLE LAND SHALL BE CONFOUNDED, be put to shame by...
DO JUDGMENT: _ Heb._ visit upon...
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...
I WILL DO, that is, I will execute, _judgment upon the idols of Babylon_, and the whole land of Chaldea shall be confounded, when they shall see that their idols will do them no more service. AND ALL...
Jeremiah 51:47 days H3117 coming H935 (H8802) judgment H6485 (H8804) images H6456 Babylon H894 land H776 ashamed...
THE REASONS FOR BABYLON'S DEMISE (JEREMIAH 51:47). We now learn again the reasons for Babylon's demise. It was because of her graven images (Jeremiah 51:47), with all their para-normal ramifications ...
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 21:9; Isaiah 46:1; Isaiah 46:2; Jeremiah 11:22; Jeremiah 13:21