Jeremiah 50:30

Therefore shall her young men fall in the streets, and all her men of war shall be cut off in that day, saith the LORD. THEREFORE SHALL HER YOUNG MEN FALL IN THE STREETS - (note, ). IN THE STREETS - the Babylonians were so discouraged by having lost some battles, that they retired within their walls, and would not again meet Cyrus in the field....

He confirms the same thing, and shows that the destruction of Babylon would be such, that everything valuable would be destroyed. _Fall, _he says, _shall her strong men in the streets; _which is worse than if he had said, “They shall fall in battle.” Babylon was so taken that all her armed men were slain in the middle of the city. Cyrus indeed spared, as it has been already said, the common people; but he slew all the chief men and the armed soldiers. As the Babylonians were taken while keeping a feast, as we read in Daniel, hence Jeremiah mentions _the streets. _He afterwards adds, —...

21-32 The forces are mustered and empowered to destroy Babylon. Let them do what God demands, and they shall bring to pass what he threatens. The pride of men's hearts sets God against them, and ripens them apace for ruin. Babylon's pride must be her ruin; she has been proud against the Holy One of Israel; who can keep those up whom God will throw down?...

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

THEREFORE SHALL HER YOUNG MEN FALL IN THE STREETS,.... Or "surely" f; it is the form of an oath, according to Jarchi Cyrus, when he took Babylon, ordered proclamation to be made that the inhabitants should keep within doors; and that whoever were found in the streets should be put to death g, as doubtless many were: AND ALL HER MEN OF WAR SHALL BE CUT OFF IN THAT DAY, SAITH THE LORD; as Belshazzar and his guards were h; see Daniel 5:30; compare with this Revelation 19:18. f לכן "certe". g Cyropaedia, l. 7. c. 23. h Ibid....

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

Repeated from Jeremiah 49:26....

D. Babylon's Recompense and Israel's Redemption Jeremiah 50:29-34 TRANSLATION (29) Summon against Babylon archers, all who handle the bow! Encamp against her round about! Let no one escape! Repay her according to her work, do to her as she has done; for she has been arrogant toward the LORD, the Holy One of Israel. (30) Therefore, her young men shall fall in her streets and all her men of battle shall be silenced in that day (oracle of the LORD). (31) Behold, I am against you, O Pride (oracle of the Lord, GOD of hosts); for your day has come, the time of your punishment. (32) Pride shall stumble and fall, and no one shall raise her up. I will kindle a fire against his cities and it shall devour all round about him. (33) Thus says the LORD of hosts: Oppressed are the people of Israel and the people of Judah too; and all who have taken them captive hold them fast, they

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 Jeremiah's utterances as expanded by a follower, e.g. Baruch, at a later date. The reasons for doubting Jeremiah's authorship aro: (_a_) he elsewhere speaks in friendly terms of the Chaldeans; here their overthrow is predicted; (_b_) the style and words betray another writer; (_c_) the knowledge displayed of Babylonian matters is greater than could be expected of the prophet; (_d_) the Jews are in exile far away from Jerusalem (Jeremiah 50:4; Jeremiah 50:6;...