Jeremiah 50:2-12

2 "¹Declare and proclaim among the nations. Proclaim it and ²lift up a standard. Do not conceal it but say, '³Babylon has been captured, ⁴Bel has been put to shame, Marduk has been shattered; Her ⁵images have been put to shame, her idols have been shattered.'

3 "For a nation has come up against her out of the ⁶north; it will make her land ⁷an object of horror, and there will be ⁸no inhabitant in it. Both man and beast have wandered off, they have gone away!

4 "In those days and at that time," declares the LORD, "the sons of Israel will come, both they and the sons of Judah ⁹as well; they will go along ¹⁰weeping as they go, and it will be ¹¹the LORD their God they will seek.

5 "They will ¹²ask for the way to Zion, turning their faces in its direction; they will come that they may join themselves to the LORD in an ¹³everlasting covenant that will not be forgotten.

6 "My people have become ¹⁴lost sheep; ¹⁵Their shepherds have led them astray. They have made them turn aside on the ¹⁶mountains; They have gone along from mountain to hill And have forgotten their ¹⁷resting place.

7 "All who came upon them have devoured them; And their adversaries have said, '¹⁸We are not guilty, Inasmuch * as they have sinned against the LORD who is the ¹⁹habitation of righteousness, Even the LORD, the ²⁰hope of their fathers.'

8 "Wander away from the ²¹midst of Babylon And go forth from the land of the Chaldeans; Be also like male goats at the head of the flock.

9 "For behold, I am going to ²²arouse and bring up against Babylon A horde of great nations from the land of the north, And they will draw up their battle lines against her; From there she will be taken captive. Their arrows will be like an expert warrior Who does not return empty-handed.

10 "²³Chaldea will become plunder; All who plunder her will have enough," declares the LORD.

11 "Because you are glad, because you are jubilant, O you who ²⁴pillage My heritage, Because you skip about like a threshing ²⁵heifer And neigh like stallions,

12 Your ²⁶mother will be greatly ashamed, She who gave you birth will be humiliated. Behold, she will be the least of the nations, A ²⁷wilderness, a parched land and a desert.

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Jeremiah 50:2-12 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

Cross References 27

1. Jeremiah 4:16
2. Jeremiah 51:27
3. Jeremiah 51:31
4. Isaiah 46:1
5. Jeremiah 51:47
6. Isaiah 13:17; Jeremiah 50:9; Jeremiah 51:11, 27
7. Isaiah 14:22, 23; Jeremiah 50:13
8. Jeremiah 9:10, 11; Zephaniah 1:3
9. Isaiah 11:12, 13; Jeremiah 3:18; Jeremiah 31:31; Jeremiah 33:7; Hosea 1:11
10. Ezra 3:12, 13; Psalms 126:5; Jeremiah 31:9
11. Hosea 3:5
12. Isaiah 35:8; Jeremiah 6:16
13. Isaiah 55:3; Jeremiah 32:40; Hebrews 8:6-10
14. Isaiah 53:6; Ezekiel 34:15, 16; Matthew 9:36; Matthew 10:6
15. Jeremiah 23:11-14
16. Jeremiah 13:16; Ezekiel 34:6
17. Jeremiah 33:12; Jeremiah 50:19
18. Jeremiah 2:3; Zechariah 11:5
19. Jeremiah 31:23; Jeremiah 40:2, 3
20. Psalms 22:4; Jeremiah 14:8; Jeremiah 17:13
21. Isaiah 48:20; Jeremiah 51:6; Revelation 18:4
22. Jeremiah 51:1
23. Jeremiah 51:24, 35; Ezekiel 11:24
24. Jeremiah 12:14
25. Jeremiah 46:20
26. Jeremiah 15:9
27. Jeremiah 22:6; Jeremiah 51:43

Footnotes 13

[a]. Heb "Merodach"
[b]. Or "dismayed"
[c]. Lit "hither"
[d]. M.T. reads "come ye!"
[e]. Or "will have come"
[f]. Another reading is "let them go forth"
[g]. Or "in front of"
[h]. So some mss and versions; M.T. reads "a warrior who makes childless"
[i]. Or "the Chaldeans"
[j]. Another reading is "in the grass"
[k]. Lit "mighty ones"
[l]. Or "has become"
[m]. Or "has become"

Jeremiah 50:2-12

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Jeremiah 50:2-12 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO JEREMIAH 50

Cross References 27

Footnotes 13