"Though Babylon should mount up to heaven, and though she should fortify the height of her strength, yet from me shall spoilers come unto her, saith the LORD."
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Verse 53. _THOUGH BABYLON SHOULD MOUNT UP TO HEAVEN_] Though it were
fortified even to the skies, it shall fall by the enemies that I will
send against it....
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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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MOUNT UP, &C. Compare Isaiah 14:12....
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Cp. Isaiah 14:12-14.
_fortify_ lit. _cut off_, i.e. render inaccessible.
_the height of her strength_ the height of her walls....
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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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Though Babylon should mount up to heaven, and though she should
fortify the height of her strength, yet from me shall spoilers come
unto her, saith the LORD.
THOUGH BABYLON SHOULD MOUNT UP TO HEAV...
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1-14. The end of Babylon arrives....
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THOUGH BABYLON SHOULD MOUNT UP TO HEAVEN... — The special form of
the phrase recalls the language of the builders of the Tower which
made the name of Babylon conspicuous (Genesis 11:4). Even though th...
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כִּֽי ־תַעֲלֶ֤ה בָבֶל֙ הַ שָּׁמַ֔יִם
וְ כִ֥י תְבַצֵּ֖ר מְרֹ֣ום עֻזָּ֑הּ מֵ
אִתִּ֗י יָבֹ֧אוּ שֹׁדְדִ֛ים...
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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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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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Though Babylon should mount up to (g) heaven, and though she should
fortify the height of her strength, [yet] from me shall spoilers come
to her, saith the LORD.
(g) For the walls were two hundred fe...
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_High. Her fortifications and ditches will prove fruitless, chap.
xlviii. 7, 18._...
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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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The Prophet again teaches us, that however impregnable Babylon might
be, there was yet no reason to fear but that God would be its judge;
for it is by no means right to measure his power by our though...
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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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THOUGH BABYLON SHOULD MOUNT UP TO HEAVEN,.... Could the walls of it,
which were very high, two hundred cubits high, as Herodotus p says, be
carried up as high as heaven; or the towers of it, which wer...
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Though Babylon should mount up to heaven, and though she should
fortify the height of her strength, [yet] from me shall spoilers come
unto her, saith the LORD.
Ver. 53. _Though Babylon should mount u...
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_Though Babylon should mount up to heaven_ Though Babylon were built
upon the most lofty and inaccessible mountain, and though it were made
as strong as nature and art could make it, yet still I would...
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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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We are very prone to measure things by the measures of our own
reasons, and to judge of events which are to be the effects of Divine
power by human probabilities, therefore God is put to use many word...
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Jeremiah 51:53 Babylon H894 up H5927 (H8799) heaven H8064 fortify
H1219 (H8762) height H4791 strength H5797 from H227 plunderers H7703
(H8802) come H935 (H8799) says H5002 (H8803) LORD H3068
mount -...
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A FURTHER PROPHECY OF THE DESTRUCTION OF BABYLON AND ITS GODS
(JEREMIAH 51:52).
Note the similarity of these words with Jeremiah 51:47. The repetition
brings out the importance and certainty of what...
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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 A...
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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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Amos 9:4; Daniel 4:30; Ezekiel 31:9; Genesis 11:4; Isaiah 10:6; Isaiah
10:7; Isaiah 13:17; Isaiah 13:2; Isaiah 14:12; Isaiah 41:25;...