Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
Jeremiah 51:53
Verse 53. Though Babylon should mount up to heaven] Though it were fortified even to the skies, it shall fall by the enemies that I will send against it.
Verse 53. Though Babylon should mount up to heaven] Though it were fortified even to the skies, it shall fall by the enemies that I will send against it.
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...
MOUNT UP, &C. Compare Isaiah 14:12....
Cp. Isaiah 14:12-14. _fortify_ lit. _cut off_, i.e. render inaccessible. _the height of her strength_ the height of her walls....
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...
Though Babylon should mount up to heaven, and though she should fortify the height of her strength, yet from me shall spoilers come unto her, saith the LORD. THOUGH BABYLON SHOULD MOUNT UP TO HEAVE...
1-14. The end of Babylon arrives....
Allusion to the height of the walls or of the tower of Bel....
THOUGH BABYLON SHOULD MOUNT UP TO HEAVEN... — The special form of the phrase recalls the language of the builders of the Tower which made the name of Babylon conspicuous (Genesis 11:4). Even though th...
כִּֽי ־תַעֲלֶ֤ה בָבֶל֙ הַ שָּׁמַ֔יִם וְ כִ֥י
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...
Though Babylon should mount up to (g) heaven, and though she should fortify the height of her strength, [yet] from me shall spoilers come to her, saith the LORD. (g) For the walls were two hundred fe...
_High. Her fortifications and ditches will prove fruitless, chap. xlviii. 7, 18._...
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 teaches us, that however impregnable Babylon might be, there was yet no reason to fear but that God would be its judge; for it is by no means right to measure his power by our though...
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...
THOUGH BABYLON SHOULD MOUNT UP TO HEAVEN,.... Could the walls of it, which were very high, two hundred cubits high, as Herodotus p says, be carried up as high as heaven; or the towers of it, which wer...
Though Babylon should mount up to heaven, and though she should fortify the height of her strength, [yet] from me shall spoilers come unto her, saith the LORD. Ver. 53. _Though Babylon should mount u...
_Though Babylon should mount up to heaven_ Though Babylon were built upon the most lofty and inaccessible mountain, and though it were made as strong as nature and art could make it, yet still I would...
Though Babylon should mount up to heaven, in an attempt to storm the stronghold of the Lord itself, AND THOUGH SHE SHOULD FORTIFY THE HEIGHT OF HER STRENGTH, literally, "make inaccessible the height o...
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...
We are very prone to measure things by the measures of our own reasons, and to judge of events which are to be the effects of Divine power by human probabilities, therefore God is put to use many word...
Jeremiah 51:53 Babylon H894 up H5927 (H8799) heaven H8064 fortify H1219 (H8762) height H4791 strength H5797 from
A FURTHER PROPHECY OF THE DESTRUCTION OF BABYLON AND ITS GODS (JEREMIAH 51:52). Note the similarity of these words with Jeremiah 51:47. The repetition brings out the importance and certainty of what i...
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...
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...
Amos 9:4; Daniel 4:30; Ezekiel 31:9; Genesis 11:4; Isaiah 10:6;...