Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
Jeremiah 50:12
Verse Jeremiah 50:12. Your mother] Speaking to the Chaldeans: BABYLON, the metropolis, or mother city, shall be a wilderness, a dry land, a desert, neither fit for man nor beast.
Verse Jeremiah 50:12. Your mother] Speaking to the Chaldeans: BABYLON, the metropolis, or mother city, shall be a wilderness, a dry land, a desert, neither fit for man nor beast.
YOUR MOTHER - i. e., Babylon. Confounded ... ashamed. Or, ashamed ... blush. BEHOLD ... - Translate, “Behold she is the hindermost of the nations, a desert, a thirsty land, and a waste:” - the reason...
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 HINDERMOST. the last. Compare Jeremiah 50:17; Jeremiah 25:26....
Chaldaea shall be spoiled, because it rejoices in spoiling Israel....
_your mother_ Babylon, as mother of the individual citizens. Cp. Hosea 2:2; Hosea 2:5. _a wilderness … a desert_ Cp. Jeremiah 2:6; Jeremiah 51:43....
BEHOLD, &C.— _Behold, she shall be the hindermost of the nations, a wilderness,_ &c. Houbigant....
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...
Your mother shall be sore confounded; she that bare you shall be ashamed: behold, the hindermost of the nations shall be a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert. YOUR MOTHER - Babylon, the metropol...
50:12 hindmost (f-22) Or 'the last,' as Amalek was said to be 'the first.' Numbers 24:20 ....
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...
THE HINDERMOST, etc.] RV 'She (Babylon) shall be the hindermost,' etc....
YOUR MOTHER SHALL BE SORE CONFOUNDED... — The prophet speaks to the people of Babylon, and the city is therefore described as their mother. THE HINDERMOST OF THE NATIONS SHALL BE A WILDERNESS... — Th...
בֹּ֤ושָׁה אִמְּכֶם֙ מְאֹ֔ד חָפְרָ֖ה יֹֽולַדְתְּכֶ֑ם הִנֵּה֙...
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...
_Dust, like a suppliant, Isaias xlvii. 1. (Calmet) --- Dry. The country shall be equally unfruitful. The waters of the Euphrates being let off, gave a passage to the enemy, ver. 9. (Haydock) --- Babyl...
Let not the Reader overlook still further testimonies of divine favor to his poor outcasts, in that the Lord sends enemies to destroy Babylon, because Babylon had wasted his people. Ye rejoiced, said...
WE explained yesterday why the Prophet denounced shame and reproach on the Babylonians, even because they had arrogantly exulted over the children of God. And he says that Babylon would be _the extrem...
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...
YOUR MOTHER SHALL BE SORE CONFOUNDED,.... The monarchy of the Chaldeans; so the Targum and jarchi, your congregation; or rather their metropolis, their mother city, the city of Babylon; which would be...
_Your mother shall be sore confounded; she that bare you shall be ashamed: behold, the hindermost of the nations [shall be] a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert._ Ver. 12. _Your mother shall be sor...
_Your mother shall be sore confounded_ Namely, Babylon the metropolis, or mother-city of the empire. Or, your country shall be ashamed of you, her children, who are not able to defend her. _Behold, th...
your mother shall be sore confounded, the nation as such being heaped with disgrace; SHE THAT BARE YOU SHALL BE ASHAMED, blushing with the shame of it all. BEHOLD, THE HINDERMOST OF THE NATIONS, for t...
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...
Your chief City Babylon, or your country, which is the common mother of all the Chaldeans, shall be destroyed, or SHALL BE ASHAMED of you, who are not able to defend her. The sense here seems a little...
Jeremiah 50:12 mother H517 deeply H3966 ashamed H954 (H8804) bore H3205 (H8802) ashamed H2659 (H8804) least...
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...
THE REASON WHY BABYLON IS TO BE DESTROYED (JEREMIAH 50:11). We now learn the reason why Babylon is to be destroyed. It is because of YHWH's wrath at (His sense of aversion to) her sins. In the first p...
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...
JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 50:11 Babylon once rejoiced over its destruction of Judah, God’s HERITAGE, like a calf frolicking or a stallion snorting. Soon Babylon will be ashamed and become an UTTER DES...
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)....
Galatians 4:26; Isaiah 13:20; Isaiah 14:22; Isaiah 23:13; Jer
Mother — Your country, shall be ashamed of you, who are not able to defend her....