Yirmeyah 50:31

31 Hineni, I am against thee, O thou zadon (proud one), saith Adonoi Hashem Tzva’os; for thy day is come, the time that I will visit thee [for punishment].

Yirmeyah 50:31 Meaning and Commentary

Jeremiah 50:31

Behold, I [am] against thee, [O thou] most proud, saith the
Lord God of hosts
Or, O "pride", or O "man of pride" ^F9; intolerably proud, superlatively so, as the kings of Babylon were, as Nebuchadnezzar, and Belshazzar likewise, the present king; so the Targum interprets it of a king,

``behold, I send my fury against thee, O wicked king;''

and is applicable enough to the man of sin, that monster of pride, that exalts himself above all that is called God, or is worshipped, ( 2 Thessalonians 2:4 ) ; and therefore it is no wonder that the Lord is against him, who resists all that are proud; and woe to him and them that he is against: for the day is come, the time [that] I will visit thee;
in a way of vindictive wrath and justice, for pride and other this; see ( Jeremiah 50:27 ) .

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FOOTNOTES:

F9 (Nwdz) Heb. "superbia", Schmidt; vel "vir superbiae", Piscator; so Abarbinel.

Yirmeyah 50:31 In-Context

29 Call together the archers against Bavel; all ye that bend the keshet, encamp against it all around; let none thereof escape; repay her according to her work; according to all that she hath done, do unto her; for she hath arrogantly defied Hashem Kadosh Yisroel.

30 Therefore shall her bochurim fall in the streets, and all her anshei milchamah shall be destroyed in that day, saith Hashem.

31 Hineni, I am against thee, O thou zadon (proud one), saith Adonoi Hashem Tzva’os; for thy day is come, the time that I will visit thee [for punishment].

32 And the zadon shall stumble and fall, and none shall raise him up; and I will kindle an eish in his towns, and it shall devour all around him.

33 Thus saith Hashem Tzva’os; The Bnei Yisroel and the Bnei Yehudah were oppressed together; and all that took them captives held them fast; they refused to let them go.