Jeremiah 50:11

Because ye were glad, because ye rejoiced, O ye destroyers of mine heritage, because ye are grown fat as the heifer at grass, and bellow as bulls; BECAUSE YE WERE GLAD ... YE REJOICED, O YE DESTROYERS OF MINE HERITAGE - (Isaiah 47:6, "I was wroth with my people, I have polluted mine inheritance, and given them into thine hand; thou didst show them no mercy"). BECAUSE YE ARE GROWN FAT - and so skip wantonly. AS THE HEIFER AT GRASS - fat and frisky. [But there is a disagreement of gender in the Hebrew reading, thus daashaa' (H1876), grazing, or 'at grass,' does not agree with kª`eglaah, a heifer.] The reading [ daashaah (H1877...

God shows here, that though the Chaldeans insolently exulted for a time, yet their joy would not continue; and at the same time he points out the cause of their ruin, even because they dealt so arrogantly with the people of God. He then says in the former clause, _Ye exulted and rejoiced in plundering my heritage; _and then he adds, _Ye became fat _(for to be multiplied means here to become fat) _as a heifer, _well fed, or _of the grass; _for some think that the word is used for דשאה, _deshae; _but some render it, “herbified,” or fed on grass; while others derive the word from דוש, _dush, _to thresh or tread out corn. (56) It is then added, _Ye neighed like strong horses, _or ye bellowed like bulls, as some render the words; for אבירים, _abirim, _sometimes mean bulls, and sometimes strong horses; and the v

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 hath sinned against the Lord. Sin makes men a mark for the arrows of God's judgments. The mercy promised to the Israel of God, shall not only accompany, but arise from the destruction of Babylon. These sheep shall be gathered from the deserts, and put again into good pasture. All who return to God and their duty, shall find satisfaction of soul in so doing. Deliverances out of trouble are comforts indeed, when fruits of the forgiveness of sin....

Verse Jeremiah 50:11. _AS THE HEIFER AT GRASS_] Ye were wanton in the desolations ye brought upon Judea....

Or, “Chaldaea shall become a spoil ... for thou wast glad, thou exultedst, ye plunderers of mine heritage.” BECAUSE YE ARE GROWN FAT - Rather, for thou leapedst, skippedst as an animal does when playing. AS THE HEIFER AT GRASS - Or, as a heifer threshing. When threshing cattle were allowed to eat their fill Deuteronomy 25:4, and so grew playful. BELLOW AS BULLS - Better as in the margin....

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 put the reader in possession of the data which are so variously estimated by critics of different schools. Theological considerations need not, and therefore ought not, to be admitted; like every other critical question, that which we are now approaching can be argued out on purely literary grounds. At first sight, indeed, it would appear not to require a long debate, seeing that in Jeremiah 1:1 and Jeremiah 51:60 the prophecy is expressly attributed t

BECAUSE YE WERE GLAD, BECAUSE YE REJOICED, O YE DESTROYERS OF MINE HERITAGE,.... This is addressed to the Chaldeans who destroyed Jerusalem and the land of Judea, once the heritage of the Lord; when they rejoiced at the destruction of God's people, and insulted them in their miseries; and which is the cause and reason assigned of their ruin; for though they had a commission to destroy, yet they exceeded that, and especially by exulting at the ruin of that people, which showed great inhumanity. So the Papists will rejoice at the slaying of the witnesses, but will be repaid in their own coin, Revelation 11:10; BECAUSE YE ARE GROWN FAT AS THE HEIFER AT GRASS: which feeds all the day, and so grows fat. Some copies read, "as the heifer that treads out" k the corn; which, according to the law, was not to be muzzled, and so was continually feeding, and grew plump and sle

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 Jeremiah.” There is a direct statement that Jeremiah wrote all these words. We find it at the close of Jeremiah 51:59. “Jeremiah wrote in a book all the evil that should come upon Babylon, even all these words that are written against Babylon.” It would be a brazen infidelity which says Jeremiah did not write all these words. Yet the almost universally accepted view of the critics is that these Chapter s cannot be the work of Jeremiah. The German infidel, Professor Eichhorn, the man who coined the phrase “higher criticism,” started this denial; Kuenen, Budde and others have followed in his steps. Others have modified this radical view and concede the possibility that Jeremiah may have b

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 and others (_cf., e.g.,_ Jeremiah 50:41 ff., Jeremiah 51:15). It presupposes the destruction of Jerusalem, apparently as a remote rather than a recent event. Its idea of Babylon is that of a cruel tyrant to be punished by Yahweh, not that of a Divinely commissioned agent of Yahweh's wrath against Israel, as Jeremiah teaches. We are not at liberty to make it contemporaneous with such exilic writings as Isaiah 13, 40-55, because

DESTROYERS. spoilers, or plunderers....