Jeremiah 50:23-33

23 How the hammer of the whole earth has been broken and shattered into pieces! How Babylon has become a wasteland among the nations!

24 You set a trap for others, Babylon, but you yourself were caught in it unaware; you have been found and captured because you have defied the LORD.

25 The LORD has opened his arsenal and brought out his brutal weapons. The LORD God of heavenly forces has a job to do in the land of the Babylonians.

26 Come against her from every side; throw open her granaries; pile her up like stalks of grain; totally destroy her; leave nothing intact.

27 Destroy all her bulls; prepare them for slaughter. How terrible for them! Their time has come, the day of reckoning.

28 A voice of fugitives and refugees, from the land of Babylon, declaring in Zion the retribution of the LORD our God because of what has been done to his temple.

29 Send the archers against Babylon, all who draw the bow! Surround her and let no one escape. Pay her back for her deeds; do to her what she's done to others. She has acted arrogantly toward the LORD, the holy one of Israel!

30 Therefore, her soldiers will fall in the streets; all her warriors will be silenced on that day, declares the LORD.

31 I'm against you, you arrogant one! declares the LORD God of heavenly forces. Your day has come, your time of reckoning.

32 The arrogant one will stumble and fall, and no one will help her up. I'll set your cities on fire, and it will consume all that's around her.

33 The LORD of heavenly forces proclaims: The people of Israel were oppressed, together with the people of Judah. Their captors held them and refused to let them go.

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Jeremiah 50:23-33 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO JEREMIAH 50

This and the following chapter contain a long prophecy concerning the destruction of Babylon; and which is expressed in such language, that it may be, and is to be, accommodated to the destruction of mystical Babylon; and several passages in the book of the Revelation are borrowed from hence; and it is intermixed with promises and prophecies of the deliverance of God's people from thence, and of the conversion of the Jews, and the restoration of them to their own which will be at that time; see Jer 50:4,5,8,19,20,33,34. The destruction of Babylon in general is proclaimed and declared, and the manner and cause of it, Jer 50:1-13; then the enemies of Babylon are stirred up and animated to proceed against her, and execute the judgments of God upon her, Jer 50:14-30. Next follows the Lord's controversy with her, because of her pride and oppression of his people; and threatens her with the sword, drought, and utter destruction, Jer 50:31-40; and then a description is given of her enemies, that should be the instruments of her destruction, Jer 50:41-44; and the chapter is closed with observing, that this is all according to the counsel and purpose of God, Jer 50:45,46.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

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[a]. Or I set a trap for you, Babylon, and you were

Jeremiah 50:23-33

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Jeremiah 50:23-33 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO JEREMIAH 50

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