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Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Jeremiah 51:56

The Lord God of recompences... — The prophet clothes the law of retribution which he has been asserting throughout the chapter with a new majesty by connecting it with a new Divine Name (comp. Jeremiah 23:6). Jehovah delights, as it were, to manifest Himself in that aspect. He is a God of retribution, Jehovah, and will be true to that title.

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See also Jeremiah 51:56 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse 56. _THE LORD GOD OF RECOMPENSES_] The fall of Babylon is an act of Divine justice; whatever it suffers, it is in consequence of its crimes....

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    EVERY ONE ... - Or, “Their bows are broken, for Yahweh is a God of recompenses; He will certainly requite.”...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    GOD. Hebrew El. App-4. The Hebrew reads "El of recompences, Jehovah"....

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    E. The Final Pronouncement Against Babylon Jeremiah 51:54-58 TRANSLATION (54) Hark! A cry from Babylon, and great destruction from the land of the Chaldeans. (55) For the LORD is destroying Babylon,...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    Because the spoiler is come upon her, even upon Babylon, and her mighty men are taken, every one of their bows is broken: for the LORD God of recompences shall surely requite. HER MIGHTY MEN ARE T...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    51:56 *God (d-25) _ El_ , only twice in Jeremiah, here, and ch. 32.18; once in Lam., ch. 3.41....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    1-14. The end of Babylon arrives....

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    כִּי֩ בָ֨א עָלֶ֤יהָ עַל ־בָּבֶל֙ שֹׁודֵ֔ד וְ

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    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...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    He confirms the former verse; for as the thing of which he speaks was difficult to be believed, he sets God before them, and shows that he would be the author of that war. He now continues his discour...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    BECAUSE THE SPOILER IS COME UPON HER, [EVEN] UPON BABYLON,.... That is, Cyrus, with his army: AND HER MIGHTY MEN ARE TAKEN; unawares, by surprise: EVERYONE OF THEIR BOWS IS BROKEN; they had no stren...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Because the spoiler is come upon her, [even] upon Babylon, and her mighty men are taken, every one of their bows is broken: for the LORD God of recompences shall surely requite. Ver. 56. _For the Lor...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Because the Lord hath spoiled Babylon, and destroyed out of her the great voice_ “When cities are populous, they are of course noisy: see Isaiah 22:2. Silence is therefore a mark of depopulation; and...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE WORK OF THE SPOILERS...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Because the spoiler is come upon her, even upon Babylon, and her mighty men are taken, her greatest champions and heroes being obliged to submit without a struggle, since resistance was impossible, EV...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    Little more is said here than was before, only the words hint the taking of Babylon by a surprise, when the kin and the inhabitants were not aware of it, which he had be fore also told us, JEREMIAH 51...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Jeremiah 51:56 plunderer H7703 (H8802) comes H935 (H8804) Babylon H894 men H1368 taken H3920 (H8738) bows...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    A PROPHETIC DESCRIPTION OF THE FULFILMENT OF YHWH'S WORD SPOKEN AGAINST BABYLON AND CONFIRMATION THAT IT WOULD BE SO (JEREMIAH 51:54). The section dealing with YHWH's word against Babylon, which began...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    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...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Samuel 2:4; 2 Thessalonians 1:6; Deuteronomy 32:35; Ezekiel 39:3;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Because — Little more is said here than was before, only the words hint the taking of Babylon by a surprize when the king, and the inhabitants were not aware of it, which we had before also told us, J...

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