Jer 51 | TSK | STEP | The severe judgment of God against Babylon, in revenge of Israel. Jeremiah delivers the book of this prophecy to Seraiah, to be cast into Euphrates, in token of the perpetual sinking of Babylon. I will. midst. Heb. heart. rise. a destroying wind.

the spirit.Of Cyaxares king of Media, called "Darius the Mede" in scripture; and of Cyrus his nephew, king of persia, presumptive heir of the throne of his uncle.

his device.

12,29; 50:45

the vengeance.

24,35; 50:15,28; Ps 74:3-11; 83:3-9; Hab 2:17-20; Zec 12:2,3

Zec 14:2,12

the standard.

46:3-5; Pr 21:30; Isa 8:9,10; 13:2; Joe 3:2,9-14; Na 2:1; 3:14,15

ambushes. Heb. liers in wait.

Jos 8:14

the Lord hath both.

11,29; La 2:17

dwellest.

36; Re 17:1,15

abundant.

50:37; Isa 45:3; Hab 2:5-10; Re 18:11-17

thine.

17:11; 50:27,31; Ge 6:13; La 4:18; Eze 7:2-12; Da 5:26; Am 8:2

1Pe 4:7

and the.

Hab 2:9-11; Lu 12:19-21; 2Pe 2:3,14,15; Jude 1:11-13; Re 18:19

sworn.

49:13; Am 6:8; Heb 6:13

himself. Heb. his soul. as with.

46:23; Jud 6:5; Joe 1:4-7; 2:3,4,25; Na 3:15-17

lift up. Heb. utter.

50:15

hath made.

10:12-16; 32:17; Ge 1:1-6; Ps 107:25; 146:5,6; 148:1-5; Isa 40:26

Ac 14:15; 17:24; Ro 1:20; Col 1:16,17; Heb 1:2,3; Re 4:11

by his wisdom.

Ps 104:24; 136:5; Pr 3:19; Ro 11:33

and hath.

Job 9:8; Ps 104:2; Isa 40:22; 42:5; 44:24; 45:12; 48:13; 51:13

he uttereth.

10:12,13; Job 37:2-11; 40:9; Ps 18:13; 29:3-10; 46:6; 68:33; 104:7

Eze 10:5

there is.

Job 36:26-33; 37:13; 38:34-38; Ps 135:7; Am 9:7

multitude. or, noise. and he causeth.

Ps 135:7

bringeth.

Ge 8:1; Ex 10:13,19; 14:21; Job 38:22; Ps 78:26; 135:7; 147:18

Jon 1:4; 4:8; Mt 8:26,27

Every.

10:14; Ps 14:2; 53:1,2; 92:5,6; 115:5,8; 135:18; Isa 44:18-20

Ro 1:20-23; 1Co 1:19-21

brutish by his knowledge. or, more brutish than to know.for his.

10:14; 50:2; Ps 135:17; Hab 2:18,19

vanity.

10:8,15; Jon 2:8; Ac 14:15

in the.

43:12,13; 46:25; 48:7; 50:2; Ex 12:12; Isa 19:1; 46:1; Zep 2:11

portion.

10:16; Ps 16:5; 73:26; 115:3; La 3:24

the former.

the rod.

12:7-10; 50:11; Ex 19:5,6; De 32:9; Ps 33:12; 74:2; 135:4; 1Pe 2:9

the Lord.

10:16; Isa 47:4

art.

50:23; Isa 10:5,15; 13:5; 14:5,6; 37:26; 41:15,16; Mic 4:13

Zec 9:13,14; Mt 22:7

with thee. or, in thee, or, by thee. break.

25:9,11; 27:5-7

50:37; Ex 15:1,21; Ps 46:9; 76:6; Eze 39:20; Mic 5:10; Na 2:13

Hag 2:22; Zec 10:5; 12:4; Re 19:18

6:11; De 32:25; 1Sa 15:3; 2Ch 36:17; Isa 20:4; La 2:11; Eze 9:6

11,35,49; 50:15,17,18,28,29,33,34; Ps 137:8,9; Isa 47:6-9

Isa 51:22,23; 61:2; 63:1-4; 66:6; 1Th 2:15,16; Re 6:10; 18:20,24

Re 19:2-4

I am.

50:31

O destroying.

53,58; Ge 11:4; Isa 13:2; Da 4:30; Zec 4:7

which destroyest.

7,20-23; 25:9,18-27; Re 8:8; 17:1-6

and will.

2Pe 3:10; Re 8:8; 18:9,10

shall not.

37,43; 50:12,13; Isa 13:19-22; 14:23

desolate for ever. Heb. everlasting desolations.

50:40,41; Isa 34:8-17; Re 18:20-24

ye up.

12; 6:1; 50:2,41; Isa 13:2-5; 18:3; Am 3:6; Zec 14:2

prepare.

25:14

Ararat.Bochart reasonably concludes Ararat and Minni to be the greater and lesser Armenia; and Ashchenaz he thinks formed part of Phrygia near the Hellespont, part of that country being called Ascania by Homer. Cyrus had conquered Armenia, defeated Croesus king of Lydia, (B.C. 548,) and subdued several nations from the Egean sea to the Euphrates, before he marched against Babylon; and Xenophon also informs us that there were not only Armenians, but both Phrygians and Cappadocians in the army of Cyrus.

Ge 8:4

Ashchenaz.

Ge 10:3

Ashkenaz.

1Ch 1:6

cause.

14; 46:23; 50:41,42; Jud 6:5; Joe 2:2,3; Na 3:15-17; Re 9:7-11After Cyrus had been the instrument in the hands of God of taking Babylon, he marched against Tomyris, queen of the Massagetæ, a Scythian nation, and was totally defeated, (B.C. 530.) The victorious queen, who had lost her son in a previous battle, was so incensed against Cyrus, that she cut off his head, and threw it into a vessel filled with human blood, exclaiming, "Sattia te sanguine, quem sitisti."

the kings.

11; 25:25; Ge 10:2; 1Ch 1:5

Madia.

Es 1:3; 10:2; Isa 13:17; 21:2; Da 5:28-30; 6:8; 8:3,4,20; 9:1

the land.

8:16; 10:10; 50:36,43; Isa 13:13,14; 14:16; Joe 2:10; Am 8:8

every.

11,12,43,62-64; 50:13,39,40,45; Isa 13:19,20; 14:23,24; 46:10,11

Isa 47:1-15; Re 18:2,21-24

The mighty.Accordingly, the Babylonians, after the loss of a battle or two, never recovered their courage to the face the enemy in the field, they retired within their walls; and the first time that Cyrus came with his army before the place he could not provoke them to venture forth, though he challenged the king to fight a duel with him; and the last time he came he consulted with his officers respecting the best mode of carrying on the siege "since," said he, "they do not come out to fight."

32,57; 48:41; 50:36,37; Ps 76:5; Isa 13:7,8; 19:16; Na 3:13

Re 18:10

her bars.

50:36; *marg:

Ps 107:16; 147:13; Isa 45:1,2; La 2:9; Am 1:5; Na 3:13

post.

4:20; 50:24; 1Sa 4:12-18; 2Sa 18:19-31; 2Ch 30:6; Es 3:13-15

Es 8:10,14; Job 9:25

to shew.

50:43; Isa 21:3-9; 47:11-13; Da 5:2-5,30

the passages.

50:38; Isa 44:27

the men.

30; 50:37

is like.

Isa 21:10; 41:15,16; Am 1:3; Mic 4:13; Hab 3:12

it is time to thresh her. or, in the time that he threshethher. the time.

Isa 17:5-11; 18:5; Ho 6:11; Joe 3:13; Mt 13:30,39; Re 14:15-20

the king.

49; 39:1-8; 50:7,17; La 1:1,14,15

he hath made.

48:11,12; Isa 24:1-3; 34:11; Na 2:2,9,10

swallowed.

44; Job 20:15; Pr 1:12; La 2:16; Eze 36:3; Am 8:4; Mt 23:14

The violence. Heb. My violence.

50:29; Jud 9:20,24,56,57; Ps 9:12; 12:5; 137:8,9; Isa 26:20,21

Zec 1:15; Mt 7:2; Jas 2:13; Re 6:10; 16:6; 18:6,20

flesh. or, remainder. inhabitant. Heb. inhabitress.

I will plead. See on ch.

50:33,34; Ps 140:12; Pr 22:23; 23:11; Isa 43:14; 47:6-9; 49:25,26

Mic 7:8-10; Hab 2:8-17

take.

De 32:35,43; Ps 94:1-3; Ro 12:19; Heb 10:30,31; Re 19:1-3

and I will.

50:38; Ps 107:33; Isa 44:27; Re 16:12

become.

25,26,29; 25:9,12,18; 50:12,13,23-26,38-40; Isa 13:19-22; 14:23

Isa 34:8-17; Re 18:2,21-23

an hissing.

18:16; 19:8; 29:18; 2Ch 29:8; La 2:15,16; Mic 6:16; Zep 2:15

roar.

2:15; Job 4:10,11; Ps 34:10; 58:6; Isa 35:9; Na 2:11-13; Zec 11:3

yell. or, shake themselves.

Jud 16:20

their heat.

25:27; Isa 21:4,5; 22:12-14; Da 5:1-4,30; Na 1:10; 3:11

and sleep.

57; Ps 13:3; 76:5,6

50:27; Ps 37:20; 44:22; Isa 34:6; Eze 39:18

Sheshach.Sheshach was probably an idol worshipped at Babylon, from which the city derived this name; and the festival which was held when the city was taken, when they were heated with wine, was perhaps observed in honour of it.

25:26; Da 5:1-3

the praise.

49:25; 50:23; Isa 13:19; 14:4; Da 2:38; 4:22,30; 5:4,5; Re 18:10-19

an astonishment.

37; 50:46; De 28:37; 2Ch 7:21; Eze 27:35

Ps 18:4,16; 42:7; 65:7; 93:3; Isa 8:7,8; Eze 27:26-34; Da 9:26

Lu 21:25; Re 17:15,16

cities.

29,37; 50:39,40

a land.

2:6; Isa 13:20; Eze 29:10,11

I will punish.

18,47; 50:2; Isa 46:1,2

I will bring.

34; 2Ch 36:7; Ezr 1:7; Da 1:2; 5:2-4,26

the nations.

Isa 2:2; 60:5; Da 3:2,3,29; 4:1,22; 5:19,31; Re 18:9-19

the wall.

53,58

go.

6,9,50; 50:8; Isa 48:20; Zec 2:7; Re 14:8-11; 18:4

deliver.

Ge 19:12-16; Nu 16:26; Ac 2:40; 2Co 6:17

lest. or, let not.

2Ki 19:7; Mt 24:6-8; Mr 13:7,8; Lu 21:9-19,28

a rumour shall.

Isa 13:3-5; 21:2,3

ruler against.

Jud 7:22; 1Sa 14:16-20; 2Ch 20:23; Isa 19:2

I will.

52; 50:2; Isa 21:9; 46:1,2

do judgment upon. Heb. visit upon.

18; 11:22; 13:21; 23:34; 25:12; *margins

her whole.

24,43; 50:12-16,35-40

the heaven.

10; Ps 58:10,11; Pr 11:10; Isa 44:23; 48:20; 49:13; Re 15:1-4

Re 16:4-7; 18:20; 19:1-7

the spoilers.

11; 50:3,9,41

As Babylon, etc. or, Both Babylon is to fall, O ye slain ofIsrael and with Babylon shall fall the slain of all the country. hath.

10,11,24,35; 50:11,17,18,29,33,34; Jud 1:7; Ps 137:8,9; Mt 7:2

Jas 2:13; Re 18:5,6

escaped.

6,45; 31:21; 44:28; 50:8; Isa 48:20; 51:11; 52:2,11,12; Zec 2:7-9

Re 18:4

remember.

29:12-14; De 4:29-31; 30:1-4; Ezr 1:3-5; Ne 1:2-4; 2:3-5

Ps 102:13,14; 137:5,6; Da 9:2,3,16-19

Jerusalem.

Ps 122:6

are confounded.

3:22-25; 31:19; Ps 74:18-21; 79:4,12; 123:3,4; 137:1-3; La 2:15-17

La 5:1; Eze 36:30

shame.

3:25; 14:3; Ps 44:13-16; 69:7-13; 71:13; 109:29; Eze 7:18; Mic 7:10

for strangers.

52:13; Ps 74:3-7; 79:1; La 1:10; 2:20; Eze 7:21,22; 9:7; 24:21

Da 8:11-14; 9:26,27; 11:31; Re 11:1,2

that I.

47; 50:38

her graven images.This was verified when Xerxes destroyed all the temples of Babylon, B.C. 479.

the wounded.

Isa 13:15,16; Eze 30:24; Da 5:30,31

mount.

25,58; 49:16; Ge 11:4; Ps 139:8-10; Isa 14:12-15; 47:5,7

Eze 31:9-11; Da 4:30; Am 9:4; Ob 1:3,4

from.

1-4,11,48; 50:9,10,21,25,31-34,45; Isa 10:6,7; 13:2-5,17

Isa 41:25; 45:1-5

48:3-5; 50:22,27,43,46; Isa 13:6-9; 15:5; Zep 1:10; Re 18:17-19

destroyed.

38,39; 25:10; 50:10-15; Isa 15:1; 24:8-11; 47:5; Re 18:22,23

her waves.

Ps 65:7; 93:3,4; Isa 17:13; Eze 26:3; Lu 21:25; Re 17:15

the spoiler.

48; 50:10; Isa 21:2; Hab 2:8; Re 17:16

her mighty.

30; 50:36

every.

49:35; Ge 49:24; 1Sa 2:4; Ps 37:15; 46:9; 76:3; Eze 39:3,9

the Lord.

6,24; 50:28,29; De 32:35; Ps 94:1,2; 137:8; Isa 34:8; 35:4; 59:18

2Th 1:6; Re 18:5,6,20; 19:2

I will.

39; 25:27; Isa 21:4,5; Da 5:1-4,30,31; Na 1:10; Hab 2:15-17

Re 18:6,7,9

sleep a.

Ps 76:5,6; Isa 37:36

the king.

46:18; 48:15; Mal 1:14

The broad walls of Babylon. or, The walls of broad Babylon.According to the testimony of Herodotus, the circumference of the walls of Babylon was 480 stadia, or 60 miles, their breadth 50 cubits, and their height 200 cubits; but when Darius became master of the place, B.C. 516, he took away all their 100 gates of brass, and beat down their walls to 50 cubits; and now not a vestige of these immense fortifications remains, to mark the site of this once mighty city!

44; 50:15

broken. or, made naked. high gates.

30; Isa 45:1,2

the people.

9,64; Ps 127:1; Isa 65:23; Hab 2:13

Neriah.

32:12; 36:4; 45:1

with. or, on the behalf of. quiet prince. or, prince ofMenucha, or chief chamberlain.

30:2,3; 36:2-4,32; Isa 8:1-4; 30:8; Da 12:4; Hab 2:2,3; Re 1:11,19

and shalt see.

Mt 24:1; Mr 13:1

read.

29:1,2; Col 4:16; 1Th 4:18; 5:27; Re 1:3

to cut.

25,26,29,37; 50:3,13,39,40; Isa 13:19-22; 14:22,23; Re 18:20-23

desolation. Heb. desolations.

25:9,12; Eze 35:9

thou shalt bind.This was the emblem of its overthrow and irretrievable ruin; and the same emblem is employed in Re 18:21, to denote the utter ruin of mystical Babylon.

19:10,11; Re 18:21

Thus shall.

42; 25:27; Na 1:8,9; Re 14:8; 18:2,21

they shall.

58; Hab 2:13; Ps 76:12

Thus far.

Job 31:40; Ps 72:20