Jeremiah 51:42
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What does Jeremiah 51:42 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"The sea is come up upon Babylon: she is covered with the multitude of the waves thereof."
What does Jeremiah 51:42 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"The sea is come up upon Babylon: she is covered with the multitude of the waves thereof."
Verse Jeremiah 51:42. _THE SEA IS COME UP_] A multitude of foes have inundated the city....
By a grand metaphor the invading army is compared to the sea....
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...
_The sea is come up_ the hostile army arriving in overwhelming force. Cp. Jeremiah 46:7-8; Jeremiah 47:2; Isaiah 17:12....
THE SEA IS COME UP— A multitude of people, which, like an inundation, carry all before them....
C. Babylon's Demolition and Israel's Liberation Jeremiah 51:41-46 TRANSLATION (41) How sad that Sheshak is captured, the praise of all the earth is taken! How sad that Babylon has become an astonishm...
The sea is come up upon Babylon: she is covered with the multitude of the waves thereof. THE SEA IS COME UP UPON BABYLON - "the sea" - i:e., the host of Median invaders. The image (cf. ; Isaiah 8:...
1-14. The end of Babylon arrives....
THE SEA IS COME UP UPON BABYLON... — The literal explanation of the words as referring to the foundation of the Euphrates adopted by some commentators is clearly inadmissible, and is at variance with...
עָלָ֥ה עַל ־בָּבֶ֖ל הַ יָּ֑ם בַּ הֲמֹ֥ון גַּלָּ֖יו נִכְסָֽתָה׃...
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...
The (z) sea is come up upon Babylon: she is covered with the multitude of its waves. (z) The great army of the Medes and Persians....
_Sea: numerous armies of Cyrus, or the waters of the Euphrates let loose. (Calmet) --- In the days of Alexander [the Great], many tombs of the kings were inundated. (Strabo xv.)_...
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....
THE Prophet here employs a comparison, in order more fully to confirm his prophecy respecting the destruction of Babylon; for, as it was incredible that it could be subdued by the power or forces of m...
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...
THE SEA IS COME UP UPON BABYLON,.... A vast army, comparable to the great sea for the multitude thereof, even the army of the Medes and Persians under Cyrus; so the Targum, "a king with his armies, w...
The sea is come up upon Babylon: she is covered with the multitude of the waves thereof. Ver. 42. _The sea is come up upon Babylon._] A sea of hostile forces; what wonder, therefore, though she be ta...
_How is Sheshach taken!_ That Babylon is meant by Sheshach is certain; but why it is so called is yet matter of doubt: see note on Jeremiah 25:26. Some indeed have supposed that it is called so from a...
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...
A multitude of enemies, that are like the sea in which there is a multitude of waters, or that will overrun them as the sea overfloweth the shore, or any land into which it once breaketh....
Jeremiah 51:42 sea H3220 up H5927 (H8804) Babylon H894 covered H3680 (H8738) multitude H1995 waves H1530 Psalms 18:4, Psalms 18:16, Psalms 42:7, Psalms 65:7, Psalms 93:3;...
AN EXULTATION OVER THE CITY OF BABYLON'S DEMISE (JEREMIAH 51:41). We note in this exultation the emphasis on what is to happen to Bel (Marduk), the chief god of Babylon. Babylon had boasted that it w...
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...
Daniel 9:26; Ezekiel 27:26; Isaiah 8:7; Isaiah 8:8; Luke 21:25; Psalms 18:16; Psalms 18:4; Psalms 42:7; Psalms 65:7; Psalms 93:3;...
The sea — A multitude of enemies....