Isaiah 13:15-18

14:19-22; 47:9-14; Jer 50:27,35-42; 51:3

children.

Ps 137:8,9; Ho 10:14; Na 3:10

and their.

La 5:11; Zec 14:2

I will.

3-5; 21:2; 41:25; Jer 50:9; 51:11,27,28; Da 5:28-31

shall not regard.

Pr 6:34,35

shall dash.

16; 2Ki 8:12; Ho 13:16; Na 2:1; 3:10

their eye.

2Ch 36:17; Eze 9:5,6,10

Isaiah 47:10-15

thou hast trusted.

28:15; 59:4; Ps 52:7; 62:9

thou hast said.

29:15; Job 22:13,14; Ps 10:11; 64:5; 94:7-9; Ec 8:8; Jer 23:24

Eze 8:12; 9:9

Thy wisdom.

5:21; Eze 28:2-6; Ro 1:22; 1Co 1:19-21; 3:19

perverted thee. or, caused thee to turn away. I am.

8

thou shalt not know.

37:36; Ex 12:29,30; Ne 4:11; Re 3:3

from whence it riseth. Heb. the morning thereof. thou shaltnot be.

Ps 50:22; Jer 51:39-42; Da 5:25-30; 1Th 5:3; Re 18:9,10

put it off. Heb. expiate.

Mt 18:34; Lu 12:59

9,10; 8:19; 19:3; 44:25; Ex 7:11; 8:7,18,19; 9:11; Jer 2:28; Da 5:7-9

Na 3:4; Ac 13:8-12; 2Th 2:9-12; Re 17:4-6

wearied.

57:10; Eze 24:12; Hab 2:13

Let now.

44:25; Da 2:2-10; 5:7,8,15,16,30

astrologers, the stargazers. Heb. viewers of the heavens.the monthly prognosticators. Heb. that gave knowledge concerning the months.

they shall.

40:24; 41:2; Eze 15:7; Ps 83:13-15; Joe 2:5; Ob 1:18; Na 1:10; Mal 4:1

themselves Heb. their souls.

Mt 10:28; 16:26

there shall.

30:14; Jer 51:25,26; Re 18:21

thy merchants.

56:11; Eze 27:12-25; Re 18:11-19

they shall.Babylon was replenished from all nations, by a concourse of people, whom Jeremiah (ch. 50:37) calls "the mingled people." All these, at the approach of Cyrus, sought to escape to their several countries.

Jer 51:6-9; Re 18:15-17

Jeremiah 6:22-23

a people.

1; 1:14,15; 5:15; 10:22; 25:9; 50:41-43

They shall.

5:16; 50:42; Isa 13:18; Eze 23:22-25; Hab 1:6-10

cruel.

30:14; Isa 13:18; 19:4

their.

4:13; Isa 5:26-30; Lu 21:25,26

Jeremiah 50:40-42

49:18; 51:26; Ge 19:24,25; De 29:23; Isa 1:9; 13:19,20; Ho 11:8,9

Am 4:11; Zep 2:9; Lu 17:28-30; 2Pe 2:6; Jude 1:7; Re 11:8; 18:8,9

2,3,9; 6:22,23; 25:14; 51:1,2,11,27,28; Isa 13:2-5,17,18; Re 17:16

hold.

6:22,23

they are cruel.

Ps 74:20; 137:8,9; Isa 13:17,18; 14:6; 47:6; Hab 1:6-8; Jas 2:13

Re 16:6

their voice.

Ps 46:2,3,6; Isa 5:30

shall ride.

8:16; 47:3; Isa 5:28; Hab 1:8; Re 19:14-18

Jeremiah 51:35-58

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

Nahum 1:2

God is jealous, and the Lord revengeth. or, The Lord is ajealous God, and a revenger.

Ex 20:5; 34:14; De 4:24; Jos 24:19; Isa 42:13; Eze 38:18; 39:25

Joe 2:18; Zec 1:14; 8:2

revengeth.

De 32:35,42; Ps 94:1; Isa 59:17,18; Ro 12:19; 13:4; Heb 10:30

is furious. Heb. that hath fury.

Le 26:28; Job 20:23; Isa 51:17,20; 59:18; 63:3-6; 66:15

Jer 4:4; 25:15; 36:7; La 4:11; Eze 5:13; 6:12; 8:18; 36:6; Mic 5:15

Zec 8:2

reserveth.

De 32:34,35,41-43; Jer 3:5; Mic 7:18; Ro 2:5,6; 2Pe 2:9

Nahum 1:6

can stand.

Ps 2:12; 76:7; 90:11; Isa 27:4; Jer 10:10; Mal 3:2; Re 6:17

abide. Heb. stand up. his fury.

2; De 32:22,23; Isa 10:16; La 2:4; 4:11; Eze 30:16; Re 16:1,8

Malachi 4:1

1 God's judgment on the wicked;

2 and his blessing on the good.

4 He exhorts to the study of the law;

5 and tells of Elijah's coming and office.

the day.

5; 3:2; Eze 7:10; Joe 2:1,31; Zep 1:14; Zec 14:1; Lu 19:43; 21:20

2Pe 3:7

shall burn.

Ps 21:9,10; Na 1:5,6; Zep 1:18; Mt 3:12; 2Th 1:8

and all the.

3:15,18; Ex 15:7; Ps 119:119; Isa 2:12-17; 5:24; 40:24; 41:2; 47:14

Ob 1:18; Na 1:10

that it.

Job 18:16; Am 2:9