THE LORD. Hebrew. _Jehovah._ App-4. BEHOLD. Figure of speech _Asterismos._ ME.. Massoretic note (App-30) says that this is. cryptogram (Hebrew " _Casdim_ "), meaning "the Chaldees". See note on Jeremiah 51:41; Jeremiah 25:26. DESTROYING. laying waste. Hebrew. _shahath._ The same word as in verses:... [ Continue Reading ]
FANNERS... FAN. WINNOWERS... WINNOW. Figure of speech _Polyptoton._ App-6.... [ Continue Reading ]
AGAINST HIM THAT BENDETH, &C. The _Massorah_ (App-30), instead of cancelling the repeated word "against... and against" _('el),_ directs the substitution of _'al,_ "not... and not". The verse will then read, "Let not the archer bend his bow, nor let him lift himself up in his coat of mail" (i.e. in... [ Continue Reading ]
ISRAEL... JUDAH. Now one People again. GOD. Hebrew. _Elohim._ App-4. THE LORD OF HOSTS. See note on Jeremiah 6:6, and 1 Samuel 1:3. SIN. Hebrew. _chata._ THE HOLY ONE OF ISRAEL. See note on Psalms 71:22.... [ Continue Reading ]
EVERY MAN. Hebrew. _'ish._ App-14. SOUL. Hebrew. _nephesh._ App-13. INIQUITY. Hebrew. _'avah._ App-44. Put by Fig, _Metonymy_ (of Cause), for the judgment brought down by it. Compare Revelation 18:4.... [ Continue Reading ]
MADE ALL THE EARTH DRUNKEN. Compare Revelation 17:4. WINE. Hebrew. _yayin._ App-27.... [ Continue Reading ]
IS SUDDENLY, &C. This must refer to. future fulfilment, for the present condition came gradually, See Isaiah 21:9; Isaiah 47:9; Isaiah 47:11. Compare Revelation 14:8; Revelation 18:8; Revelation 18:10; Revelation 18:17; Revelation 18:19. DESTROYED. broken d [ Continue Reading ]
WE. Note this remarkable pronoun. EVERY ONE. Hebrew. _'Ish_. App-14. IS LIFTED UP. mounteth.... [ Continue Reading ]
SPIRIT. Hebrew. _ruach_. App-9. THE MEDES. In the person of Cyrus and others (App-57). Here the then immediate calamity is referred to. VENGEANCE. avengement.... [ Continue Reading ]
MAKE THE WATCH, &C. Compare Isaiah 21:5; Isaiah 21:6.... [ Continue Reading ]
UPON MANY WATERS. Compare Jeremiah 51:42, and Jeremiah 50:38, also Revelation 17:1; Revelation 17:15. COVETOUSNESS. dishonest or unrighteous gain.... [ Continue Reading ]
BY HIMSELF. by His soul. Hebrew. _nephesh._ App-13. Figure of speech _Anthropopatheia._ CATERPILLERS. locusts. Compare Joel 2:2.Nahum 3:15. THEY: i.e. the assailants.... [ Continue Reading ]
MADE THE EARTH, &C. Reference to Pentateuch (Genesis 1). Compare Jeremiah 10:12, &c. verses: Jeremiah 51:15 are repeated from Jeremiah 10:12.... [ Continue Reading ]
MULTITUDE. noise. LIGHTNINGS, &C. Compare Jeremiah 10:13.... [ Continue Reading ]
IS BRUTISH BY, &C.. is become too brutish to know. CONFOUNDED. put to shame. BREATH. Hebrew. _ruach._ App-9.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE TIME OF THEIR VISITATION. See note on Jeremiah 8:12.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE PORTION OF JACOB, &C. Note the _Alternation_ in Jeremiah 51:19, Not such as these is Jacob's Portion: (Deuteronomy 32:9; Psalms 16:5). For [the] Former of all things is He: And the Sceptre of his (Israel's) inheritance: The LORD of hosts is His Name (Deuteronomy 10:9).... [ Continue Reading ]
MY BATTLE AXE: or, My hammer, i.e. Cyrus. Figure of speech _Anthropopatheia._ WITH THEE WILL. BREAK IN PIECES. with thee will. beat down. Note the Figure of speech _Anaphora_, by which ten successive sentences commence with these words, This is for special emphasis.... [ Continue Reading ]
EVIL. Hebrew. _ra'a'._ App-44. SAITH THE LORD. [is] Jehovah's oracle.... [ Continue Reading ]
NOT TAKE OF THEE... FOREVER. This again must refer to. future fulfilment. The two destructions are intertwined. Compare Jeremiah 51:62. FOR EVER. See App-151.... [ Continue Reading ]
PREPARE. set apart, or sanctify. MINNI. Frequently mentioned in the inscriptions, the Assyrians having been compelled to quell revolts there. CAPTAIN. muster-master or marshal, like the Assyrian _dupsarru,_ or tablet-writer. Hebrew. _tiphsar._ Occurs only here and Nahum 3:17.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE Some codices, with three early printed editions, read "and the".... [ Continue Reading ]
WITHOUT AN INHABITANT. This must be yet future.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE MIGHTY MEN. Hebrew pi. of _gibbor._ App-14.... [ Continue Reading ]
POST. runner. AT ONE END. Supply the _Ellipsis_ by the word "each", instead of "one". "at [each] end". This will accord with the history; for Herodotus says the Babylonians retired to the city, and "remained in their holds". Cyrus, having turned the waters of the Euphrates, entered the city, by the... [ Continue Reading ]
PASSAGES. fords. STOPPED. seized. MEN. Hebrew, plural of _'enosh._... [ Continue Reading ]
THE LORD OF HOSTS, THE GOD OF ISRAEL. See note on Jeremiah 7:3.... [ Continue Reading ]
ME. Here, and in Jeremiah 51:35, the Hebrew text reads "us"; but the margin, and some codices, with two early printed editions, read "me", which is followed by the Authorized Version.... [ Continue Reading ]
INHABITANT. inhabitress. UPON. Hebrew text reads "against", but. special various reading called Sevir (App-34) has "upon", with some codices, one early printed edition, Aramaean, Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulgate, which are followed by Authorized Version.... [ Continue Reading ]
DRY UP. Referring to the act of Cyrus (by Gobryas). Compare Jeremiah 51:31, above. SEA. the river Euphrates. So called from its breadth.... [ Continue Reading ]
DRAGONS. jackals. WITHOUT AN INHABITANT. This carries us on to the future again. Compare 1 Peter 5:13.... [ Continue Reading ]
YELL: or, shake themselves.... [ Continue Reading ]
FEASTS. banquets.... [ Continue Reading ]
SHESHACH. See note on Jeremiah 25:26.... [ Continue Reading ]
NO MAN DWELLETH. Still future. MAN. Hebrew. _'adam._ App-14.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE WALL OF BABYLON. Now recently laid bare by excavations.... [ Continue Reading ]
DO JUDGMENT UPON. visit upon.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE HEAVEN... SHALL SING. Figure of speech _Poeanismos_ and _Prosopopoeia._ ALL THAT IS THEREIN. Compare Revelation 19:1.... [ Continue Reading ]
ALL THE EARTH. Compare Isaiah 14:16; Isaiah 14:17.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE LORD. Hebrew. _Jehovah._ (with _'eth)._ App-4.... [ Continue Reading ]
MOUNT UP, &C. Compare Isaiah 14:12.... [ Continue Reading ]
DESTROYED. caused to perish. Hebrew. _'abar._ Not the same as in verses: Jeremiah 51:1; Jeremiah 51:3; Jeremiah 51:8; Jeremiah 1:11; Jeremiah 1:20; Jeremiah 1:25; Jeremiah 1:54.... [ Continue Reading ]
GOD. Hebrew El. App-4. The Hebrew reads "El of recompences, Jehovah".... [ Continue Reading ]
WALLS. Some codices, with two early printed editions, Septuagint, and Vulgate, read "wall". PEOPLE. peoples. BE WEARY. faint.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE FIFTY-FIRST PROPHECY OF JEREMIAH (see book comments for Jeremiah). SERAIAH. The brother of Baruch(Jeremiah 32:12. Compare Jeremiah 45:1). WHEN HE WENT, &C. Probably to renew his oath of allegiance. Compare Jeremiah 27:1; Jeremiah 28:1. QUIET PRINCE. Probably chief chamberlain. Revised Version... [ Continue Reading ]
WROTE IN. BOOK. wrote in one scroll. EVIL. calamity. Hebrew. _ra'a_. App-44.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND SHALT SEE, &C.. then shalt thou look out and read.... [ Continue Reading ]
DESOLATE FOR EVER. age-abiding desolations, show-ing that this prophecy must wait. future fulfilment.... [ Continue Reading ]