What does Jeremiah 51:37 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"And Babylon shall become heaps, a dwellingplace for dragons, an astonishment, and an hissing, without an inhabitant."
Verse Jeremiah 51:37. _WITHOUT AN INHABITANT._] See Jeremiah 50:39....
HEAPS - Of rubbish, formed in this case by the decay of the unburned bricks of which Babylon was built. It is these heaps which have yielded such a large wealth of historical documents in our own days...
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...
DRAGONS. jackals. WITHOUT AN INHABITANT. This carries us on to the future again. Compare 1 Peter 5:13....
_heaps_ "Vast -heaps" or mounds, shapeless and unsightly, are scattered at intervals over the entire region where it is certain that Babylon anciently stood." (Rawl. _Anc. Mon_. II. 521.) _hissing_ S...
B. The Complaint of Israel and the Reply of the Lord Jeremiah 51:34-40 TRANSLATION (34) Nebuchadnezzar has devoured us, has crushed us, has set us down like an empty vessel. Like a monster he has dev...
And Babylon shall become heaps, a dwellingplace for dragons, an astonishment, and an hissing, without an inhabitant. BABYLON SHALL BECOME HEAPS, A DWELLING-PLACE FOR DRAGONS - (; ; )....
1-14. The end of Babylon arrives....
BABYLON SHALL BECOME HEAPS... — It is significant, as emphasising the law of retribution, that the terms are the same as those used of Jerusalem in Jeremiah 9:11; Jeremiah 19:8; Jeremiah 25:9; Jeremia...
וְ הָיְתָה֩ בָבֶ֨ל ׀ לְ גַלִּ֧ים ׀ מְעֹון ־תַּנִּ֛ים שַׁמָּ֥ה וּ שְׁרֵקָ֖ה מֵ אֵ֥ין יֹושֵֽׁב׃...
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...
_Dragons. This has been the case for above sixteen centuries, chap. l. 31., and Isaias xiii. 21._...
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....
He confirms what he had said, that when God raised his hand against Babylon, such would be its destruction, that the splendor, which before astonished all nations, would be reduced to nothing. Perish,...
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...
AND BABYLON SHALL BECOME HEAPS,.... The houses should be demolished, and the stones lie in heaps one upon another, and become mere rubbish: A DWELLING PLACE FOR DRAGONS; and other wild and savage cre...
And Babylon shall become heaps, a dwellingplace for dragons, an astonishment, and an hissing, without an inhabitant. Ver. 37. _And Babylon shall become heaps._] See Jeremiah 50:39 ....
_Thus saith the Lord, I will plead thy cause_ This is, as it were, God's answer to the prayers and imprecations of the Jewish people, mentioned in the two foregoing verses. _I will dry up her sea, and...
THE WORK OF THE SPOILERS...
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 SHALL BECOME HEAPS; heaps of rubbish. A DWELLING-PLACE FOR DRAGONS, AN ASTONISHMENT, AND AN HISSING, WITHOUT AN INHABITANT. SEE POOLE ON "JEREMIAH 50:39", SEE POOLE ON "JEREMIAH 50:40", where...
Jeremiah 51:37 Babylon H894 heap H1530 place H4583 jackals H8577 astonishment H8047 hissing H8322 inhabitant H3427 (H8802) become - Jeremiah 51:25-26, Jeremiah 51:29, Jeremiah 25:9, Jeremiah 25:12,...
YHWH PROMISES THAT THEY WILL BE AVENGED (JEREMIAH 51:36). God acknowledges the justice of their plea, and assures them that He will take vengeance on their behalf. Evil cannot be allowed to triumph,...
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...
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...
2 Chronicles 29:8; Isaiah 13:19; Isaiah 14:23; Isaiah 34:8; Jeremiah 18:16; Jeremiah 19:8; Jeremiah 25:12; Jeremiah 25:18; Jeremiah 25:9;...