Jeremiah 51:7-17

7 Babylon has been a golden ¹cup in the hand of the LORD, Intoxicating all the earth. The ²nations have drunk of her wine; Therefore * the nations are ³going mad.

8 Suddenly ⁴Babylon has fallen and been broken; ⁵Wail over her! ⁶Bring balm for her pain; Perhaps she may be healed.

9 We applied healing to Babylon, but she was not healed; Forsake her and ⁷let us each go to his own country, For her judgment has ⁸reached to heaven And towers up to the very skies.

10 The LORD has ⁹brought about our vindication; Come and let us ¹⁰recount in Zion The work of the LORD our God!

11 ¹¹Sharpen the arrows, fill the quivers! The LORD has aroused the spirit of the kings of the Medes, Because His purpose is against Babylon to destroy it; For it is the ¹²vengeance of the LORD, vengeance for His temple.

12 ¹³Lift up a signal against the walls of Babylon; Post a strong guard, Station sentries, Place men in ambush! For the LORD has both ¹⁴purposed and performed What He spoke concerning the inhabitants of Babylon.

13 O you who ¹⁵dwell by many waters, Abundant in ¹⁶treasures, Your end has come, The measure of your ¹⁷end.

14 The ¹⁸LORD of hosts has sworn by Himself: "Surely * I will fill you with a population like ¹⁹locusts, And they will cry out with shouts of victory over you."

15 It is ²⁰He who made the earth by His power, Who established the world by His wisdom, And by His understanding He ²¹stretched out the heavens.

16 When He utters His ²²voice, there is a tumult of waters in the heavens, And He causes the ²³clouds to ascend from the end of the earth; He makes lightning for the rain And brings forth the ²⁴wind from His storehouses.

17 ²⁵All mankind is stupid, devoid of knowledge; Every goldsmith is put to shame by his idols, For his molten images are ²⁶deceitful, And there is no breath in them.

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Jeremiah 51:7-17 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 26

1. Jeremiah 25:15; Habakkuk 2:16; Revelation 14:8; Revelation 17:4
2. Revelation 14:8; Revelation 18:3
3. Jeremiah 25:16
4. Isaiah 21:9; Jeremiah 50:2; Revelation 14:8; Revelation 18:2
5. Isaiah 13:6; Revelation 18:9
6. Jeremiah 46:11
7. Isaiah 13:14; Jeremiah 46:16; Jeremiah 50:16
8. Ezra 9:6; Revelation 18:5
9. Psalms 37:6; Micah 7:9
10. Isaiah 40:2; Jeremiah 50:28
11. Jeremiah 46:4, 9; Joel 3:9, 10
12. Jeremiah 50:28
13. Isaiah 13:2; Jeremiah 50:2; Jeremiah 51:27
14. Jeremiah 4:28; Jeremiah 23:20; Jeremiah 51:29
15. Revelation 17:1
16. Isaiah 45:3
17. Isaiah 57:17; Habakkuk 2:9-11
18. Jeremiah 49:13
19. Jeremiah 51:27; Nahum 3:15
20. Genesis 1:1; Jeremiah 10:12-16; Jeremiah 51:15-19
21. Job 9:8; Psalms 146:5, 6; Jeremiah 32:17; Acts 14:15; Romans 1:20
22. Job 37:2-6; Psalms 18:13
23. Psalms 135:7; Jeremiah 10:13
24. Jonah 1:4
25. Isaiah 44:18-20; Jeremiah 10:14
26. Habakkuk 2:18, 19

Footnotes 10

[a]. Or "balsam resin"
[b]. Lit "is lifted"
[c]. Lit "forth"
[d]. Or "standard"
[e]. Or "watchmen"
[f]. Lit "cubit"
[g]. Lit "being cut off"
[h]. Or "mankind"
[i]. I.e. like the song of grape treaders
[j]. Or "graven images"

Jeremiah 51:7-17

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Jeremiah 51:7-17 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO JEREMIAH 51

Cross References 26

Footnotes 10