Jeremiah 51:49-59

49 ¹Indeed Babylon is to fall for the slain of Israel, As also for Babylon ²the slain of all the earth have fallen.

50 You ³who have escaped the sword, Depart! Do not stay! ⁴Remember the LORD from afar, And let Jerusalem come to your mind.

51 ⁵We are ashamed because we have heard reproach; Disgrace has covered our faces, For ⁶aliens have entered The holy places of the LORD'S house.

52 "Therefore behold, the days are coming," declares the LORD, "When I will punish her ⁷idols, And the mortally wounded will groan throughout her land.

53 "Though Babylon should ⁸ascend to the heavens, And though she should fortify her lofty stronghold, From ⁹Me destroyers will come to her," declares the LORD.

54 The ¹⁰sound of an outcry from Babylon, And of great destruction from the land of the Chaldeans!

55 For the LORD is going to destroy Babylon, And He will make her loud noise vanish from her. And their ¹¹waves will roar like many waters; The tumult of their voices sounds forth.

56 For the ¹²destroyer is coming against her, against Babylon, And her mighty men will be captured, Their ¹³bows are shattered; For the LORD is a God of ¹⁴recompense, He will fully repay.

57 "I will ¹⁵make her princes and her wise men drunk, Her governors, her prefects and her mighty men, That they may sleep a ¹⁶perpetual sleep and not wake up," ¹⁷Declares the King, whose name is the LORD of hosts.

58 Thus says the LORD of hosts, "The broad ¹⁸wall of Babylon will be completely razed And her high ¹⁹gates will be set on fire; So the peoples will ²⁰toil for nothing, And the nations become ²¹exhausted only for fire."

59 The message which Jeremiah the prophet commanded Seraiah the son of ²²Neriah, the grandson of Mahseiah, when he went with ²³Zedekiah the king of Judah to Babylon in the fourth year of his reign. (Now Seraiah was quartermaster *.)

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Jeremiah 51:49-59 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO JEREMIAH 51

The former part of this chapter is a continuation of the prophecy of the preceding chapter, concerning the destruction of Babylon, Jer 51:1-58; the latter part of it contains a prophecy of Jeremiah sent to the captives in Babylon by the hand of Seraiah, with the copy of the above prophecy against Babylon, and an order to fasten a stone to it, and cast it into the river Euphrates, as a sign, confirming the utter and irreparable ruin of Babylon, Jer 51:59-64.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Cross References 23

1. Psalms 137:8; Jeremiah 50:29
2. Revelation 18:24
3. Jeremiah 44:28
4. Deuteronomy 4:29-31; Psalms 137:6
5. Psalms 44:15
6. Psalms 74:3-8; Lamentations 1:10
7. Jeremiah 50:38
8. Genesis 11:4; Job 20:6; Psalms 139:8-10; Isaiah 14:12-14; Jeremiah 49:16; Amos 9:2; Obadiah 4
9. Isaiah 13:3
10. Jeremiah 48:3-5; Jeremiah 50:22, 46
11. Psalms 18:4; Psalms 69:2; Psalms 124:2, 4, 5; Jeremiah 51:42
12. Jeremiah 51:48, 53; Habakkuk 2:8
13. Psalms 46:9; Psalms 76:3
14. Deuteronomy 32:35; Psalms 94:1, 2; Jeremiah 51:6, 24
15. Jeremiah 25:27
16. Psalms 76:5, 6
17. Jeremiah 46:18; Jeremiah 48:15
18. Jeremiah 50:15
19. Isaiah 45:1, 2
20. Habakkuk 2:13
21. Jeremiah 9:5; Jeremiah 51:64; Lamentations 5:5
22. Jeremiah 32:12; Jeremiah 36:4; Jeremiah 45:1
23. Jeremiah 28:1; Jeremiah 52:1

Footnotes 5

[a]. Lit "come upon your heart"
[b]. Lit "the height of her strength"
[c]. Or "voice"
[d]. Lit "is given"
[e]. Lit "word"