Afar off - Or, from afar, from Chaldaea, far away from Yahweh’s dwelling in Jerusalem. The verse is a renewed entreaty to the Jews to leave Babylon and journey homewards, as soon as Cyrus grants them permission.
Verse Jeremiah 51:50. _YE THAT HAVE ESCAPED THE SWORD_] The Jews. _LET JERUSALEM COME INTO YOUR MIND._] Pray for its restoration; and embrace the first opportunity offered of returning thither....
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...
THE LORD. Hebrew. _Jehovah._ (with _'eth)._ App-4....
Let those in exile in Babylon, who have escaped death, hasten their return to Jerusalem, while yet there is time....
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...
Ye that have escaped the sword, go away, stand not still: remember the LORD afar off, and let Jerusalem come into your mind. YE THAT HAVE ESCAPED THE SWORD - namely, of the Medes. So great will be th...
1-14. The end of Babylon arrives....
Ye that have ESCAPED THE SWORD] by being already in exile at Babylon. AFAR OFF] RV 'from afar,' viz. Babylon....
YE THAT HAVE ESCAPED THE SWORD... — The words call on the people to fulfil the prediction of Jeremiah 50:4. Even in that distant land, “afar off” from the Temple of Jehovah, they are to remember that...
פְּלֵטִ֣ים מֵ חֶ֔רֶב הִלְכ֖וּ אַֽל ־תַּעֲמֹ֑דוּ...
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...
Ye that (e) have escaped the sword, go away, stand not still: remember the LORD afar off, and let Jerusalem come into your mind. (e) Yet that are now captives in Babylon....
_Mind. Offer sacrifices of thanks on Sion, (Haydock) both Jews and other nations. (Calmet)_...
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...
The Prophet again bids the faithful quickly to flee from Chaldea; but he says, _They who remain from the sword _He then intimates that the slaughter would be such, that it would include many of God’s...
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...
YE THAT HAVE ESCAPED THE SWORD, GO AWAY, STAND NOT STILL,.... The Jews, who had escaped the sword of the Chaldeans when Jerusalem was taken, and were carried captive into Babylon, where they had remai...
Ye that have escaped the sword, go away, stand not still: remember the LORD afar off, and let Jerusalem come into your mind. Ver. 50. _Ye that have escaped the sword,_] _sc., _ Of the Medes and Persi...
_Ye that have escaped the sword_ Namely, the sword which wasted Babylon. _Go away, stand not still_ This is spoken to the Jews, who, attending to the advice given them, Jeremiah 51:45, withdrew from B...
Ye that have escaped the sword, at or before the taking of the city, GO AWAY, STAND NOT STILL, in order not to share the fate of Babylon. REMEMBER THE LORD AFAR OFF, Jehovah, the God of the covenant,...
THE WORK OF THE SPOILERS...
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 hard to resolve whether the prophet here speaks to the Chaldeans, or the Medes, or the Jews, though most understand it of the Jews, whom God would have leave Babylon as soon as they should have...
Jeremiah 51:50 escaped H6405 sword H2719 away H1980 (H8798) still H5975 (H8799) Remember H2142 (H8798) LORD...
IN THE LIGHT OF EVENTS GOD CALLS ON HIS PEOPLE TO REMEMBER HIM AFRESH, AND TO REMEMBER JERUSALEM, REVEALING THE STATE OF CONFUSION IN WHICH HIS PEOPLE ARE (JEREMIAH 51:50). God now calls on His exiled...
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...
JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 51:50 REMEMBER THE LORD. Israel must recall and renew its covenant with God (Jeremiah 2:2;...
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...
Daniel 9:16; Daniel 9:2; Daniel 9:3; Deuteronomy 30:1; Deuteronomy
Ye — Ye Jews, leave Babylon as soon as liberty is proclaimed. Remember — And remember in Judea the great things both of justice and mercy which God hath done....