Jeremiah 50:17-20
17. lions—hostile kings (Jer 4:7; 49:19).
Assyria— (2Ki 17:6, Shalmaneser; Ezr 4:2, Esar-haddon). Nebuchadnezzar— (2Ki 24:10, 14).18. punish . . . king of Babylon—Nabonidus, or Labynitus.
as . . . punished . . . Assyrian—Sennacherib and other kings [GROTIUS] (2Ki 19:37).19. (Isa 65:10; Eze 34:13, 14).
20. The specification of "Israel," as well as Judah, shows the reference is to times yet to come.
iniquity . . . none—not merely idolatry, which ceased among the Jews ever since the Babylonian captivity, but chiefly their rejection of Messiah. As in a cancelled debt, it shall be as if it had never been; God, for Christ's sake, shall treat them as innocent (Jer 31:34). Without cleansing away of sin, remission of punishment would be neither to the honor of God nor to the highest interests of the elect. whom I reserve—the elect "remnant" (Isa 1:9). The "residue" (Zec 14:2; 13:8, 9).Jeremiah 50:33
33. Israel and . . . Judah were oppressed—He anticipates an objection, in order to answer it: Ye have been, no doubt, "oppressed," therefore ye despair of deliverance; but, remember your "Redeemer is strong," and therefore can and will deliver you.
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