As I have punished the king of Assyria. — Nineveh had fallen before Cyaxares and Nabopolassar, and Babylon was in like manner to fall before Cyrus. The one judgment was the pledge and earnest of the other.
Verse Jeremiah 50:18. _AS I HAVE PUNISHED THE KING OF ASSYRIA._] The Assyrians were overthrown by the _Medes_ and the _Chaldeans_. The _king_ is here taken for all their kings, generals, c., Tiglath-...
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 OF HOSTS, THE GOD OF ISRAEL. See note on Jeremiah 7:3....
B. Babylon's Desolation and Israel's Restoration Jeremiah 50:11-20 TRANSLATION (11) Because you laugh, because you rejoice, O plunderer of My heritage, because you scamper about like a heifer in the...
Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will punish the king of Babylon and his land, as I have punished the king of Assyria. I WILL PUNISH THE KING OF BABYLON - Nabon...
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...
לָכֵ֗ן כֹּֽה ־אָמַ֞ר יְהוָ֤ה צְבָאֹות֙ אֱלֹהֵ֣י...
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...
_Assyria. This monarchy was subdued by Nabopolasser._...
Every verse in this passage is peculiarly striking and gracious. Observe how the Lord speaks tenderly in behalf of his people, and contemptuously of their enemies. A scattered sheep fallen into the ja...
What I have said may hence with more certainty be inferred — that the similitude which God employed was intended for this end, that having assumed the person of one in sorrow, he might represent as it...
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 THUS SAITH THE LORD OF HOSTS, THE GOD OF ISRAEL,.... Because of this cruel treatment of his people, whose God he was; and being the Lord of hosts, and able to avenge himself on their enemies...
Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will punish the king of Babylon and his land, as I have punished the king of Assyria. Ver. 18. _As I have punished the king of Ass...
_Behold, I will punish the king of Babylon, and his land_ God may justly punish those who do the things that he hath commanded them to do, if they do them not in that manner in which he directs, or, i...
Therefore, thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, Behold, I will punish the king of Babylon and his land as I have punished the king of Assyria, whose judgment had already been brought about...
CHALDEA PUNISHED; ISRAEL REDEEMED...
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...
God may justly punish those who do the things which he hath commanded them to do, if they do it not in that manner which. he directeth, or if what they do be not done in obedience to his command, but...
Jeremiah 50:18 says H559 (H8804) LORD H3068 hosts H6635 God H430 Israel H3478 punish H6485 (H8802) king...
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...
THOSE WHO MISUSE GOD'S PEOPLE WILL BE PUNISHED ACCORDINGLY WHILST THE RESTORATION OF HIS PEOPLE IS SURE (JEREMIAH 50:17). Babylon's great crime lay in what it had done to God's people. Like Assyria be...
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...
_Israel is a scattered sheep._ I. View God’s people, the spiritual Israel, as scattered sheep (Jeremiah 50:17). 1. They were sheep going astray. Scattered over the world. 2. Marked, noted, contempl...
JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 50:18 Just as God used BABYLON to punish ASSYRIA (c. 612–609 B.C.), so God will use Persia to punish Babylon (539)....
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)....
Ezekiel 31:3; Isaiah 37:36; Nahum 1:1; Zephaniah 2:13...