Jeremiah 51:37-43

37 "¹Babylon will become a heap of ruins, a haunt of jackals, An ²object of horror and hissing, without inhabitants.

38 "They will roar together like ³young lions, They will growl like lions' cubs.

39 "When they become heated up, I will serve them their banquet And ⁴make them drunk, that they may become jubilant And may ⁵sleep a perpetual sleep And not wake up," declares the LORD.

40 "I will bring them down like lambs ⁶to the slaughter, Like rams together with male goats.

41 "How ⁷Sheshak has been captured, And ⁸the praise of the whole earth been seized! How Babylon has become an object of horror among the nations!

42 "The ⁹sea has come up over Babylon; She has been engulfed with its tumultuous waves.

43 "Her cities have become an ¹⁰object of horror, A parched land and a desert, A land in which ¹¹no * man lives And through which no son of man passes.

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Jeremiah 51:37-43 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 11

1. Revelation 18:2
2. Jeremiah 25:9
3. Jeremiah 2:15
4. Jeremiah 25:27; Jeremiah 48:26; Jeremiah 51:57
5. Psalms 76:5
6. Jeremiah 48:15; Jeremiah 50:27
7. Jeremiah 25:26
8. Jeremiah 49:25
9. Isaiah 8:7, 8; Jeremiah 51:55; Daniel 9:26
10. Jeremiah 50:12
11. Isaiah 13:20; Jeremiah 2:6

Footnotes 3

[a]. Or "young rams"
[b]. Cryptic name for Babylon
[c]. Or "broad river"

Jeremiah 51:37-43

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Jeremiah 51:37-43 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO JEREMIAH 51

Cross References 11

Footnotes 3