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Verse Jeremiah 50:38. _A DROUGHT_ IS _UPON HER WATERS_] May not this
refer to the _draining of the channel of the Euphrates_, by which the
army of Cyrus entered the city. See on Jeremiah 50:24. The or...
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A DROUGHT - Rather, “a sword,” i. e., military skill and
forethought.
THEY ARE MAD UPON THEIR IDOLS - Omit their. The word for idols,
literally terrors Psalms 88:16 is used in this one place only of...
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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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IDOLS. horrors....
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_A drought_ The Heb. words for _drought_and _sword_(differing by one
vowel only, _ḥôreb, ḥereb_) are sufficiently alike to make it
quite possible that here as at the beginning of the two previous
vers...
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A DROUGHT IS UPON HER WATERS— _A sword is upon her waters, that they
may be dried up; because it is a land of idols, and they glory in vain
gods._ Our translators, after the example of the Vulgate and...
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II. THE DESTRUCTION OF BABYLON
Jeremiah 50:35 to Jeremiah 51:26
In this section of the Babylon oracle the major theme of the fall of
Babylon becomes more prominent. The minor theme of the deliveranc...
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_A DROUGHT IS UPON HER WATERS; AND THEY SHALL BE DRIED UP: FOR IT IS
THE LAND OF GRAVEN IMAGES, AND THEY ARE MAD UPON THEIR IDOLS._
No JFB commentary on this verse....
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THE FALL OF BABYLON AND THE RESTORATION OF ISRAEL
The prophecy concerning Babylon is ascribed to Jeremiah in Jeremiah
51:59. This, however, need not mean more than that it represents the
tone of Jerem...
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A DROUGHT IS UPON HER WATERS. — Better, _A sword._ The Hebrew word
for “drought” has the same consonants as that for “sword,”
with different vowel-points. In the original text the form of the two
word...
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חֹ֥רֶב אֶל ־מֵימֶ֖יהָ וְ יָבֵ֑שׁוּ
כִּ֣י אֶ֤רֶץ פְּסִלִים֙ הִ֔יא וּ בָ †
אֵימִ֖ים יִתְהֹלָֽלוּ׃...
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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 Isaiah 4...
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The last of the prophecies concerning the nations has to do with
Babylon. Throughout the whole of Jeremiah's prophetic utterances, she
has been seen as the instrument of God's judgment. Finally, on ac...
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A (a) drought [is] upon her waters; and they shall be dried up: for it
[is] the land of graven images, and they are mad over [their] idols.
(a) For Cyrus cut the river Euphrates and divided the cours...
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_Drought. Cyrus almost drained the Euphrates, chap. li. 42., and
Isaias xxi. --- Things, fit to terrify children, Baruch vi. 14.
(Calmet) --- Protestants, "they are made upon their idols." (Haydock)_...
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I must not detain the Reader, by entering upon the many interesting
particulars here enumerated of God's judgments upon Babylon. I only
briefly observe, that the history of that kingdom hath fully sho...
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Here the same word is used in a different sense: he had often before
used the word חרב, _chereb, _“sword;” but now by changing only
a point, he uses it in the sense of waste, or drought. (74) But as h...
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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...
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A DROUGHT [IS] UPON HER WATERS, AND THEY SHALL BE DRIED UP,.... Either
on the waters of the land of Chaldea in general, from whence should
follow barrenness, and so a want of the necessaries of life;...
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A drought [is] upon her waters; and they shall be dried up: for it
[is] the land of graven images, and they are mad upon [their] idols.
Ver. 38. _A drought is upon her waters._] Which Cyrus did so dr...
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_A drought is upon all her waters_ Our translators, after the example
of the Vulgate and others, have rendered חרב, _a drought_, here,
whereas they have translated it _a sword_ in the preceding verses...
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THE ENEMIES OF BABYLON SUMMONED TO THE ATTACK...
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33-46 It is Israel's comfort in distress, that, though they are weak,
their Redeemer is strong. This may be applied to believers, who
complain of the dominion of sin and corruption, and of their own
w...
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A DROUGHT IS UPON HER WATERS, AND THEY SHALL BE DRIED UP: some think
that this phrase hath a special reference to Cyrus's stratagem used in
the surprise of Babylon; one part of it was fortified by the...
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Jeremiah 50:38 drought H2721 waters H4325 up H3001 (H8804) land H776
images H6456 insane H1984 (H8704) idols H367
A drought - Jeremiah 50:12, Jeremiah 51:32-36; Isaiah 44:27;
Revelation 16:12,
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YHWH'S JUDGMENT ON BABYLON AND HIS PROMISES CONCERNING THE RESTORATION
OF THE REMNANT OF HIS PEOPLE (JEREMIAH 50:1 TO JEREMIAH 51:64).
The series of prophecies against the nations had commenced with t...
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CONTENTS: Prophecies against Babylon and Chaldea.
CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah, King of Assyria, Nebuchadrezzar.
CONCLUSION: The pride of men's hearts sets God against them and ripens
them in due time...
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Jeremiah 50:1. _The word that the Lord spake against Babylon._ Messiah
in person spake to the prophet, as is stated in Jeremiah 48:1. But
while he spake against Babylon, his lips dropped with grace an...
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JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 50:38 Babylon’s IDOLS will not be able
to help when God dries up the nation’s WATERS.
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CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—1. CHRONOLOGY OF THE CHAPTER.—This
and the following chapter constitute one prophecy against Babylon; and
the date of its authorship is given in chap. Jeremiah 51:59: “t...
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Jeremiah 50:1. AND 51. ON BABYLON.
EXPOSITION
We have now reached a point at which some reference is necessary to
the centre versies of the so called "higher criticism." An attempt
must be made to pu...
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Shall we turn now to Jeremiah chapter 50.
Chapter 50 begins with the words,
The word that the LORD spake against Babylon and against the land of
the Chaldeans by Jeremiah the prophet (Jeremiah 50:1)....
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Acts 17:16; Daniel 3:1; Daniel 5:4; Habakkuk 2:18; Habakkuk 2:19;
Isaiah 44:25; Isaiah 44:27; Isaiah 46:1; Jeremiah 50:12; Jeremiah
50:2;...
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Dried — This phrase has a plain reference to Cyrus's stratagem used
in the surprize of Babylon; one part of it was fortified by the great
river Euphrates, which Cyrus diverted by cutting several chann...