What does Jeremiah 51:12 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"Set up the standard upon the walls of Babylon, make the watch strong, set up the watchmen, prepare the ambushes:c for the LORD hath both devised and done that which he spake against the inhabitants of Babylon."
Verse Jeremiah 51:12. _SET UP THE STANDARD_] A call to the enemies of Babylon to invest the city and press the siege....
UPON THE WALLS OF BABYLON - Or, “against the walls.” The King James Version takes the word ironically, as a summons to Babylon to prepare for her defense; others take it as a summons to the army to ma...
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...
MAKE THE WATCH, &C. Compare Isaiah 21:5; Isaiah 21:6....
Exhortation to commence the blockade. _watchmen_ those of the attacking force who were appointed to see that the investiture was thorough. _the ambushes_ to attack any of the besieged that ventured...
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...
Set up the standard upon the walls of Babylon, make the watch strong, set up the watchmen, prepare the ambushes: for the LORD hath both devised and done that which he spake against the inhabitants of...
1-14. The end of Babylon arrives....
SET UP THE STANDARD UPON THE WALLS OF BABYLON. — The Authorised version, following the LXX. and the Vulgate, takes the words as an ironical summons to a defence which will prove fruitless. The preposi...
אֶל ־חֹומֹ֨ת בָּבֶ֜ל שְׂאוּ ־נֵ֗ס הַחֲזִ֨יקוּ֙ הַ מִּשְׁמָ֔ר הָקִ֨ימוּ֙ שֹֽׁמְרִ֔ים הָכִ֖ינוּ הָ אֹֽרְבִ֑ים כִּ֚י
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 Isaiah 4...
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...
_Standard. Call together thy subjects and allies. (Haydock) --- This must be explained of Babylon. (Menochius) --- Yet all will be in vain, ver. 11. (Haydock) --- Ambushes. Herein the valour and geniu...
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...
These words seem to have been addressed to the Chaldeans rather than to the Medes or the Persians, as some expound them; for this is favored by the context; for as he bids them first to raise a standa...
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...
SET UP THE STANDARD UPON THE WALLS OF BABYLON,.... This is not said to the Medes and Persians, to put up a flag on the walls of Babylon, as a sign of victory, as Kimchi, Abarbinel, and others think; f...
Set up the standard upon the walls of Babylon, make the watch strong, set up the watchmen, prepare the ambushes: for the LORD hath both devised and done that which he spake against the inhabitants of...
_Make bright the arrows, gather the shields_ Hebrew, מלאו השׁלשׂים, _the quivers._ Thus the LXX., πληρουτε τας φαρετρας, with whom agree the Vulgate, Castalio, and others. The meaning is, Prepare all...
THE THREAT OF JEHOVAH IN ITS VARIOUS FORMS...
AMBUSHES: _ Heb._ liers in wait...
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...
Some judge these words spoken to the Medes, declaring the will of God, that they should use all probable means to conquer Babylon, or (as some would have it) display their banners upon the walls of it...
Jeremiah 51:12 up H5375 (H8798) standard H5251 walls H2346 Babylon H894 guard H4929 strong H2388 (H8685) up H6965 (H8685) watchmen H8104 (H8802) Prepare H3559 (H8685) ambushes H693 (H8802) LORD H3068...
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. Whil...
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 51:12 STANDARD. Signal. See Jeremiah 4:6 and Isaiah 13:2. WATCHMEN. Persons charged with making certain that BABYLON has not figured out the invader’s plan. AMBUSHES. Intende...
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 A...
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...
Isaiah 13:2; Isaiah 8:10; Isaiah 8:9; Jeremiah 46:3; Jeremiah 51:11; Jeremiah 51:29; Joel 3:2; Joel 3:9; Joshua 8:14; Lamentations 2:17;...
Set up — These seem to be the prophet's words to the Babylonians, rousing them out of their security. Historians tell us that the city was fortified by walls of fifty cubits high, and two hundred cubi...