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Verse Jeremiah 51:51. _STRANGERS ARE COME INTO THE SANCTUARIES_] The
lamentation of the pious Jews for the profanation of the temple by the
Chaldeans....
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CONFOUNDED - Or, ashamed. The verse is a statement of the wrong done
to the exiles by Babylon, and so leads naturally to Babylon’s
punishment Jeremiah 51:52....
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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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_ashamed_ The exiles answer that they are too deeply humiliated to
obey the summons; for foreigners are in possession of the holy sites.
Cp. Lamentations 1:10 with note....
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WE ARE CONFOUNDED— The prophet repeats the words of those pious
exiles, when they reflected upon the desolation of God's people and
sanctuary. See Lamentations 2:15. Psalms 44:15; Psalms 79:4....
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D. Babylon's Retribution and Israel's Return Jeremiah 51:47-53
TRANSLATION
(47) Therefore, the days are coming when I will punish the images of
Babylon, and all her land shall be put to shame; her sl...
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We are confounded, because we have heard reproach: shame hath covered
our faces: for strangers are come into the sanctuaries of the LORD's
house.
WE ARE CONFOUNDED BECAUSE WE HAVE HEARD REPROACH. T...
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51:51 into (b-21) Or 'against.'...
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1-14. The end of Babylon arrives....
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The exiles have been scoffed at for worshipping a God who has not
defended His Temple from sacrilege....
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WE ARE CONFOUNDED, BECAUSE WE HAVE HEARD REPROACH... — The answer
which the prophet seems to hear from the lips of the exiles, is,
however, for the present, of a different character. They are cast dow...
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בֹּ֚שְׁנוּ כִּֽי ־שָׁמַ֣עְנוּ
חֶרְפָּ֔ה כִּסְּתָ֥ה כְלִמָּ֖ה...
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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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We are (f) confounded, because we have heard reproach: shame hath
covered our faces: for foreigners are come into the sanctuaries of the
LORD'S house.
(f) He shows how they would remember Jerusalem b...
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_We. The Jews answer: we are ashamed when we think of these places.
(Menochius)_...
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If the Reader will compare what is here said, with what is said of
mystic Babylon in the New Testament, he will soon perceive what a
striking resemblance there is between things temporal and spiritual...
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It is thought that these words were spoken by the Prophet to the
faithful, to confirm them as to their return. But I rather think that
they were spoken by way of anticipation. They who think that they...
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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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WE ARE CONFOUNDED, BECAUSE WE HAVE HEARD REPROACH,.... These are the
words of the Jews, either objecting to their return to their land; or
lamenting the desolation of it; and complaining of the reproa...
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We are confounded, because we have heard reproach: shame hath covered
our faces: for strangers are come into the sanctuaries of the LORD'S
house.
Ver. 51. _We are confounded, because we have heard re...
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_Ye that have escaped the sword_ Namely, the sword which wasted
Babylon. _Go away, stand not still_ This is spoken to the Jews, who,
attending to the advice given them, Jeremiah 51:45, withdrew from
B...
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We are confounded, so the Jews might say, BECAUSE WE HAVE HEARD
REPROACH, they had recollections only of the deepest shame and
humiliation in connection with Jerusalem and the Temple; SHAME HATH
COVER...
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THE WORK OF THE SPOILERS...
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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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The words of this verse seem to prove that the Jews were the persons
intended in the former verse, whom God would have to go away, and not
to stand still; for it is out of doubt that it is of them the...
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Jeremiah 51:51 ashamed H954 (H8804) heard H8085 (H8804) reproach H2781
Shame H3639 covered H3680 (H8765) faces...
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IN THE LIGHT OF EVENTS GOD CALLS ON HIS PEOPLE TO REMEMBER HIM AFRESH,
AND TO REMEMBER JERUSALEM, REVEALING THE STATE OF CONFUSION IN WHICH
HIS PEOPLE ARE (JEREMIAH 51:50).
God now calls on His exiled...
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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...
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We — We Jews are ashamed to hear the enemies reproaching us, for our
God, or for our religion. Strangers — Pagans that were strangers to
the commonwealth of Israel, are come, not to worship, but to pl...