Again I beg the Reader to remark, how the Lord points to his discriminating grace. The portion of Jacob is not like others. This people, saith Jehovah, I have formed for myself, they shall show forth my praise, Isaiah 43:21.
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...
EVERY MAN. Hebrew. _'ish._ App-14. SOUL. Hebrew. _nephesh._ App-13. INIQUITY. Hebrew. _'avah._ App-44. Put by Fig, _Metonymy_ (of Cause), for the judgment brought down by it. Compare Revelation 18:4...
_Flee_ addressed to the Jewish residents in Babylon. Cp. Jeremiah 51:45 ("My people"), Jeremiah 50:6; Isaiah 48:20; Isaiah 52:6....
C. An Exhortation to Israel Jeremiah 51:6-10 TRANSLATION (6) Flee from the midst of Babylon! Let everyone save his life! Perish not because of her guilt! For it is the time of the vengeance of the LO...
Flee out of the midst of Babylon, and deliver every man his soul: be not cut off in her iniquity; for this is the time of the LORD's vengeance; he will render unto her a recompence. FLEE OUT OF THE...
1-14. The end of Babylon arrives....
FLEE OUT OF THE MIDST OF BABYLON. — The words reproduce the call of Jeremiah 50:8 with a fresh motive. The city was doomed. It was ill done for those who had not been guilty of her sins to involve the...
נֻ֣סוּ ׀ מִ תֹּ֣וךְ בָּבֶ֗ל וּ מַלְּטוּ֙ אִ֣י
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...
(c) Flee from the midst of Babylon, and deliver every man his soul: be not cut off in her iniquity; for this [is] the time of the LORD'S vengeance; he will render to her a recompence. (c) He shows th...
_Silent. Jews proclaim that Babylon is justly punished, (Calmet) lest you partake in her crimes, Apocalypse xviii. 4. Protestants, "be not cut off in her," &c. (Haydock)_...
He goes on with the same subject, but illustrates it by various figures; for otherwise he would not have penetrated into the hearts of the godly. Were any at this day to predict the destruction of Rom...
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...
FLEE OUT OF THE MIDST OF BABYLON,.... This is said either to such as were there of other nations upon trade and business, as Kimchi, to get out of it as fast as they could, that they might not be cons...
Flee out of the midst of Babylon, and deliver every man his soul: be not cut off in her iniquity; for this [is] the time of the LORD'S vengeance; he will render unto her a recompence. Ver. 6. _Flee o...
_Flee out of the midst of Babylon_, &c. God's people are here exhorted to flee out of Babylon with all haste, as Lot did out of Sodom, lest they should be consumed in the iniquity of that place: see J...
THE THREAT OF JEHOVAH IN ITS VARIOUS FORMS...
Flee out of the midst of Babylon, and deliver every man his soul, not only his physical life, but his spiritual life as well; BE NOT CUT OFF IN HER INIQUITY, by taking part in the idolatry which broug...
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...
It is a matter of no great moment whether we understand these words as spoken to the Jews in the captivity of Babylon, as JEREMIAH 1:8, or to those whom the Chaldeans had hired to help them, or to suc...
Jeremiah 51:6 Flee H5127 (H8798) midst H8432 Babylon H894 one H376 save H4422 (H8761) life H5315 off...
YHWH'S VENGEANCE ON BABYLON AND THE VINDICATION OF ISRAEL/JUDAH (JEREMIAH 51:1). The proclamation of the certainty of YHWH's coming judgment on Babylon, and on all that it stands for, continues. While...
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...
_Flee out of the midst of Babylon._ FLEEING FROM THE CITY OF DESTRUCTION And now the trembling pilgrim, with fixed resolution, having a glimpse of the light and a definite direction, begins to run; i...
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...
1 Timothy 5:22; Deuteronomy 32:25; Deuteronomy 32:41; Deuteronomy 32:43;...
Soul — By soul is meant life, and by iniquity the punishment of the Babylonian's iniquity....