Jeremias 28:47-57

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49 and in Babylon the slain men of all the earth shall fall.

50 Go forth of the land, ye that escape, and stay not; ye that are afar off, remember the Lord, and let Jerusalem come into your mind.

51 We are ashamed, because we have heard our reproach; disgrace has covered our face; aliens are come into our sanctuary, into the house of the Lord.

52 Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will take vengeance upon her graven : and slain men shall fall in all her land.

53 For though Babylon should go up as the heaven, and though she should strengthen her walls with her power, from me shall come they that shall destroy her, saith the Lord.

54 A sound of a cry in Babylon, and great destruction in the land of the Chaldeans:

55 for the Lord has utterly destroyed Babylon, and cut off from her the great voice sounding as many waters: he has consigned her voice to destruction.

56 For distress has come upon Babylon, her warriors are taken, their bows are useless: for God recompenses them.

57 The Lord recompenses, and will make her leaders and her wise men and her captains completely drunk, saith the King, the Lord Almighty is his name.

Jeremias 28:47-57 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO JEREMIAH 28

Thus chapter relates a false prophecy of Hananiah, who broke off the yoke from Jeremiah; but in return the people are threatened with an iron yoke, and he with death; which came to pass. The time, place, and substance of his prophecy, are in Jer 28:1-4; Jeremiah's answer to it, Jer 28:5-9; Hananiah breaks Jeremiah's yoke, and explains the meaning of it to the people, Jer 28:10,11; Jeremiah prophesies that iron yokes should be given instead of wooden ones, Jer 28:12-14; and foretells the death of the false prophet, Jer 28:15-17.