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A WILDERNESS - Or, a desert of sand.
A LAND WHEREIN - Rather, “a land - no man shall dwell in them (i.
e., its cities), and no human being shall pass through them.”...
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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...
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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...
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NO MAN DWELLETH. Still future.
MAN. Hebrew. _'adam._ App-14....
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_a desert_ Cp. Jeremiah 50:12; Jeremiah 50:40....
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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...
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Her cities are a desolation, a dry land, and a wilderness, a land
wherein no man dwelleth, neither doth any son of man pass thereby.
HER CITES - the cities her dependencies. So "Jerusalem and the c...
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1-14. The end of Babylon arrives....
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HER CITIES ARE A DESOLATION... — The word for “wilderness” is
_Arabah,_ commonly used of the sandy desert south of the Dead Sea. The
prophet seems to dwell with a stern delight on the seeming paradox...
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הָי֤וּ עָרֶ֨יהָ֙ לְ שַׁמָּ֔ה אֶ֖רֶץ
צִיָּ֣ה ו
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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...
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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...
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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....
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He repeats what he had previously said, but we have before reminded
you why he speaks so largely on a subject in itself not obscure. For
he might have comprehended in a few words all that he had said...
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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 t...
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HER CITIES ARE A DESOLATION, A DRY LAND, AND A WILDERNESS,.... Which
some understand of Babylon itself, divided into two parts by the river
Euphrates running in the midst of it, called by Berosus f th...
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Her cities are a desolation, a dry land, and a wilderness, a land
wherein no man dwelleth, neither doth [any] son of man pass thereby.
Ver. 43. _Her cities are a desolation._] See Jeremiah 2:6; Jerem...
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_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...
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THE WORK OF THE SPOILERS...
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Her cities are a desolation, reverting back to the desert stage, A DRY
LAND AND A WILDERNESS, where amid steppes stretched interminably, A
LAND WHEREIN NO MAN DWELLETH, NEITHER DOTH ANY SON OF MAN PAS...
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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...
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See JEREMIAH 2:6, JEREMIAH 9:12: the words are all of them descriptive
of an utter desolation, that should not only be the fate of Babylon
the head city, but of all the inferior cities, that were as d...
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Jeremiah 51:43 cities H5892 desolation H8047 dry H6723 land H776
wilderness H6160 land H776 one H376 dwells H3427
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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 wa...
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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...
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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...
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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 As...
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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...