Jeremias 50:17

17 Cordeiro desgarrado é Israel, os leões o afugentaram; o primeiro a devorá-lo foi o rei da Assíria, e agora por último Nabucodonozor, rei de Babilônia, lhe quebrou os ossos.

Jeremias 50:17 Meaning and Commentary

Jeremiah 50:17

Israel [is] a scattered sheep
Or like a sheep that is frightened and drove from the fold, and is dispersed, and wanders about here and there; Israel includes all the twelve tribes: the lions have driven [him] away;
from his own land, and carried him captive, and scattered him among the nations; these lions are afterwards interpreted of the kings of Assyria and Babylon: so the Targum,

``kings have removed them;''

comparable to lions for their strength, fierceness, and voraciousness: first the king of Assyria hath devoured him;
eaten up his flesh; meaning Shalmaneser king of Assyria, who carried captive the ten tribes, that never returned, and therefore said to be devoured: and last this Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon hath broken his bones;
or, "boned him" ^F20; took out his bones, all his strength and substance; or took the flesh off of them, stripped him of all his wealth and riches, reduced him to his bones, made a mere skeleton of him: we, with Kimchi and Ben Melech, and others, read "broke his bones"; to get the very marrow out, that nothing may be left of him: he took Jerusalem, burnt the temple, and carried captive the two tribes of Judah and Benjamin, the strength of Israel; so, between the one and the other, all Israel were like a scattered sheep, dispersed among the nations. Nebuchadrezzar was the then reigning king in Babylon when this prophecy was delivered, and therefore called "this Nebuchadrezzar".

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FOOTNOTES:

F20 (wmue) "exossavit eum", Munster, Montanus, Cocceius.

Jeremias 50:17 In-Context

15 Gritai contra ela rodeando-a; ela já se submeteu; caíram seus baluartes, estão derribados os seus muros. Pois esta é a vingança do Senhor; vingai-vos dela; conforme o que ela fez, assim lhe fazei a ela.

16 Cortai de Babilônia o que semeia, e o que maneja a foice no tempo da sega; por causa da espada do opressor virar-se-á cada um para o seu povo, e fugirá cada qual para a sua terra.

17 Cordeiro desgarrado é Israel, os leões o afugentaram; o primeiro a devorá-lo foi o rei da Assíria, e agora por último Nabucodonozor, rei de Babilônia, lhe quebrou os ossos.

18 Portanto, assim diz o Senhor dos exércitos, Deus de Israel: Eis que castigarei o rei de Babilônia e a sua terra, como castiguei o rei da Assíria.

19 E farei voltar Israel para a sua morada, e ele pastará no Carmelo e em Basã, e se fartará nos outeiros de Efraim e em Gileade.