Behold, I [am] against thee, O destroying (o) mountain, saith the LORD, which destroyest all the earth: and I will stretch out my hand upon thee, and roll thee down from the (p) rocks, and will make thee a burnt mountain.
(o) Not that Babylon stood on a mountain but because it was strong and seemed invincible.
(p) From your strongholds and fortresses.
Verse Jeremiah 51:25. _O DESTROYING MOUNTAIN_] An epithet which he applies to the Babylonish government; it is like a _burning_ mountain, which, by vomiting continual streams of _burning lava_, inunda...
O DESTROYING MOUNTAIN - A volcano which by its flames and hot lava-streams “destroys the whole land.” A BURNT MOUNTAIN - A burned-out mountain, of which the crater alone remains. Such was Babylon. Its...
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...
_O destroying mountain_ For the expression cp. 2 Kings 23:13 R.V. mg. The figure is not appropriate in a literal sense, as Babylon is situated in a plain. The sense must be that she towers in supremac...
BEHOLD, I AM AGAINST THEE, O DESTROYING MOUNTAIN— The Vulgate renders it more properly, _O corrupting mountain, which corruptest the whole earth._ Babylon, though seated in a low watery plain, is here...
D. Divine Destruction Jeremiah 51:11-26 TRANSLATION (11) Polish the arrows! Fill the shields! The LORD has aroused the spirit of the king of the Medes; for His purpose is against Babylon to destroy i...
Behold, I am against thee, O destroying mountain, saith the LORD, which destroyest all the earth: and I will stretch out mine hand upon thee, and roll thee down from the rocks, and will make thee a b...
51:25 destruction, (b-8) Or 'mount of corruption.' see 2 Kings 23:13 ....
1-14. The end of Babylon arrives....
O DESTROYING MOUNTAIN] The same phrase is used of the Mount of Olives (AV 'mount of corruption') in 2 Kings 23:13, as the scene of pernicious idolatry. Babylon here receives the title, as at once hurt...
O DESTROYING MOUNTAIN. — Singularly enough the phrase is the same as that which is applied in 2 Kings 23:13 to the Mount of Olives, and is there rendered by the Authorised version as “the Mount of Cor...
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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...
_Mountain. So Babylon is styled in derision. See chap. xxi. 13., and Isaias i. 10., and xx. 6., and xxii. 1. The city stood on a plain. Some think that its palace and walls are designated. --- Burnt;...
Is not this command to the people of God, to go out of Babylon, the same as gospel precepts, 2 Corinthians 6:17; Revelation 18:4....
There is no doubt but that the Prophet speaks of Babylon. But it may seem strange to call it a mountain, when that city was situated in a plain, as it is well known; nay, it has no mountains near 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...
BEHOLD, I [AM] AGAINST THEE, O DESTROYING MOUNTAIN, SAITH THE LORD, WHICH DESTROYEST ALL THE EARTH,.... Babylon is called a mountain, though situated in a plain, because of its high walls, lofty tower...
Behold, I [am] against thee, O destroying mountain, saith the LORD, which destroyest all the earth: and I will stretch out mine hand upon thee, and roll thee down from the rocks, and will make thee a...
_Behold, I am against thee, O destroying mountain_ Babylon was situate in a plain, but is called a mountain here, by reason of its superiority and eminence above all other places; and perhaps also on...
THE THREAT OF JEHOVAH IN ITS VARIOUS FORMS...
Behold, I am against thee, O destroying mountain, saith the Lord, Babylon called thus on account of the physical and moral destruction which it brought upon the nations by a false use of its great pow...
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...
Babylon is not here called _a mountain_ because it was situated upon any hills or mountains, for it appears from GENESIS 11:2 that it was situated in a plain, and we read, JEREMIAH 51:13, that it dwel...
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PREPARATION FOR THE COMING TOTAL DESTRUCTION OF BABYLON (JEREMIAH 51:25). With the mention of what is to happen to Babylon in Jeremiah 51:24, YHWH's attention now turns on Babylon, describing it as a...
O DESTROYING MOUNTAIN See note 2 on Babylon, (Isaiah 13:1); (Zechariah 4:7); (_ See Scofield) - (Isaiah 13:1). _...
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...
JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 51:25 As in Daniel 2:35, Daniel 2:44, Babylon is compared to a great mo
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...
2 Peter 3:10; Daniel 4:30; Genesis 11:4; Isaiah 13:2; Jeremiah 25:18;
Mountain — Babylon was very high for its power, and greatness, and had very high walls and towers, that it looked at a distance like an high rocky mountain. They had destroyed many people. Burnt — Thy...