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Jeremiah 51:20-30

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20 “You are my battle-ax and sword,” says the LORD . “With you I will shatter nations and destroy many kingdoms.
21 With you I will shatter armies— destroying the horse and rider, the chariot and charioteer.
22 With you I will shatter men and women, old people and children, young men and young women.
23 With you I will shatter shepherds and flocks, farmers and oxen, captains and officers.
24 “I will repay Babylon and the people of Babylonia for all the wrong they have done to my people in Jerusalem,” says the LORD .
25 “Look, O mighty mountain, destroyer of the earth! I am your enemy,” says the LORD . “I will raise my fist against you, to knock you down from the heights. When I am finished, you will be nothing but a heap of burnt rubble.
26 You will be desolate forever. Even your stones will never again be used for building. You will be completely wiped out,” says the LORD .
27 Raise a signal flag to the nations. Sound the battle cry! Mobilize them all against Babylon. Prepare them to fight against her! Bring out the armies of Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz. Appoint a commander, and bring a multitude of horses like swarming locusts!
28 Bring against her the armies of the nations— led by the kings of the Medes and all their captains and officers.
29 The earth trembles and writhes in pain, for everything the LORD has planned against Babylon stands unchanged. Babylon will be left desolate without a single inhabitant.
30 Her mightiest warriors no longer fight. They stay in their barracks, their courage gone. They have become like women. The invaders have burned the houses and broken down the city gates.
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Jeremiah 51:20-30 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

Footnotes 2

  • [a]. Possibly Cyrus, whom God used to conquer Babylon. Compare Isa 44:28 ; 45:1 .
  • [b]. Or Chaldea; also in 51:35 .
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