Jeremiah 51:51-61

51 ¹We are ashamed because we have heard reproach; Disgrace has covered our faces, For ²aliens 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 ³idols, And the mortally wounded will groan throughout her land.

53 "Though Babylon should ⁴ascend to the heavens, And though she should fortify her lofty stronghold, From ⁵Me destroyers will come to her," declares the LORD.

54 The ⁶sound 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 ⁷waves will roar like many waters; The tumult of their voices sounds forth.

56 For the ⁸destroyer is coming against her, against Babylon, And her mighty men will be captured, Their ⁹bows are shattered; For the LORD is a God of ¹⁰recompense, He will fully repay.

57 "I will ¹¹make her princes and her wise men drunk, Her governors, her prefects and her mighty men, That they may sleep a ¹²perpetual sleep and not wake up," ¹³Declares the King, whose name is the LORD of hosts.

58 Thus says the LORD of hosts, "The broad ¹⁴wall of Babylon will be completely razed And her high ¹⁵gates will be set on fire; So the peoples will ¹⁶toil for nothing, And the nations become ¹⁷exhausted only for fire."

59 The message which Jeremiah the prophet commanded Seraiah the son of ¹⁸Neriah, the grandson of Mahseiah, when he went with ¹⁹Zedekiah the king of Judah to Babylon in the fourth year of his reign. (Now Seraiah was quartermaster *.)

60 So Jeremiah ²⁰wrote in a single scroll all the calamity which would come upon Babylon, that is, all these words which have been written concerning Babylon.

61 Then Jeremiah said to Seraiah, "As soon as you come to Babylon, then see that you read all these words aloud,

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Jeremiah 51:51-61 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 20

1. Psalms 44:15
2. Psalms 74:3-8; Lamentations 1:10
3. Jeremiah 50:38
4. Genesis 11:4; Job 20:6; Psalms 139:8-10; Isaiah 14:12-14; Jeremiah 49:16; Amos 9:2; Obadiah 4
5. Isaiah 13:3
6. Jeremiah 48:3-5; Jeremiah 50:22, 46
7. Psalms 18:4; Psalms 69:2; Psalms 124:2, 4, 5; Jeremiah 51:42
8. Jeremiah 51:48, 53; Habakkuk 2:8
9. Psalms 46:9; Psalms 76:3
10. Deuteronomy 32:35; Psalms 94:1, 2; Jeremiah 51:6, 24
11. Jeremiah 25:27
12. Psalms 76:5, 6
13. Jeremiah 46:18; Jeremiah 48:15
14. Jeremiah 50:15
15. Isaiah 45:1, 2
16. Habakkuk 2:13
17. Jeremiah 9:5; Jeremiah 51:64; Lamentations 5:5
18. Jeremiah 32:12; Jeremiah 36:4; Jeremiah 45:1
19. Jeremiah 28:1; Jeremiah 52:1
20. Isaiah 30:8; Jeremiah 30:2, 3; Jeremiah 36:2, 4, 32

Footnotes 5

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

Jeremiah 51:51-61

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Jeremiah 51:51-61 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO JEREMIAH 51

Cross References 20

Footnotes 5