Jeremías 51:37

37 Y Babilonia se convertirá en escombros, en guarida de chacales, en objeto de horror y de burla, sin habitantes.

Jeremías 51:37 Meaning and Commentary

Jeremiah 51:37

And Babylon shall become heaps
The houses should be demolished, and the stones lie in heaps one upon another, and become mere rubbish: a dwelling place for dragons;
and other wild and savage creatures. Dragons, as Aelianus ^F1 observes, love to live in desert places, and such now Babylon is; it lies in ruins; and even its palace is so full of scorpions and serpents, as Benjamin of Tudela ^F2 says it was in his time, that men durst not enter into it; see ( Jeremiah 50:39 ) ( Isaiah 13:21 Isaiah 13:22 ) ; an astonishment, and an hissing, without an inhabitant;
an astonishment to neighbouring nations, and to all that pass by; who shall hiss at the destruction of it, and rejoice, there being not so much as a single inhabitant in it; which is its case to this day; see ( Jeremiah 50:13 Jeremiah 50:39 ) .

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FOOTNOTES:

F1 De Animal. l. 6. c. 63.
F2 Itinerarium, p. 76.

Jeremías 51:37 In-Context

35 Caiga sobre Babilonia la violencia hecha a mí y a mi carne dirá la moradora de Sion. Caiga mi sangre sobre los habitantes de Caldea dirá Jerusalén.

36 Por tanto, así dice el SEÑOR: He aquí, yo defenderé tu causa, y ejecutaré tu venganza; secaré su mar y haré que se sequen sus manantiales.

37 Y Babilonia se convertirá en escombros, en guarida de chacales, en objeto de horror y de burla, sin habitantes.

38 A una como leones rugirán, gruñirán como cachorros de león.

39 Cuando entren en calor, les serviré su banquete y los embriagaré, para que se diviertan, duerman un sueño eterno y no despiertendeclara el SEÑOR.