Jeremías 50:16

16 Exterminad de Babilonia al sembrador y al que maneja la hoz en tiempo de la siega; ante la espada opresora, cada uno volverá a su pueblo, cada uno huirá a su tierra.

Jeremías 50:16 Meaning and Commentary

Jeremiah 50:16

Cut off the sower from in Babylon, and him that handleth the
sickle in the time of harvest
Both sower and reaper: the walls of Babylon took in a large compass of land, where there were corn fields; and which, as Curtius ^F19 observes, would yield a sufficiency to hold out a siege against an enemy; but being taken, the husbandman would not be spared, as used to be, but should be cut off, and so none to till the ground, or to reap what was upon it; and thus, in course, would be, desolate, as before threatened. The Targum understands this in a figurative sense,

``destroy the king out of Babylon, and take hold of the sword in the time of slaughter;''

and Cocceius interprets the sower of any doctor or bishop in mystical Babylon, and the reaper of such that gather the fruits, and exact obedience; see ( Revelation 18:14 Revelation 18:22 ) ; for fear of the oppressing sword;
of the Medes and Persians: they shall turn everyone to his people, and they shall flee everyone
to his own land;
not those of other nations, as the Jews, who were detained captives there, as Kimchi thinks; for these were not in such fear of the Persians, nor did they flee because of them; but were let go by them, and sent into their own land honourably: but either such who, of other nations, were come to traffic at Babylon; or rather the auxiliaries of other nations, who were either hired or forced into the service of Babylon; these, finding the city taken, would make the best of their way into their own country.

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FOOTNOTES:

F19 Hist. l. 5. c. 1.

Jeremías 50:16 In-Context

14 Poneos en orden contra Babilonia en derredor, todos los que entesáis el arco; tirad contra ella, no escatiméis las flechas, porque ha pecado contra el SEÑOR.

15 Alzad grito de guerra contra ella en derredor. Se ha rendido, caen sus columnas, son derribadas sus murallas. Porque esta es la venganza del SEÑOR: tomad venganza de ella; como ella ha hecho, así haced con ella.

16 Exterminad de Babilonia al sembrador y al que maneja la hoz en tiempo de la siega; ante la espada opresora, cada uno volverá a su pueblo, cada uno huirá a su tierra.

17 Rebaño descarriado es Israel; los leones lo han ahuyentado. Primero lo devoró el rey de Asiria, y después Nabucodonosor, rey de Babilonia, quebró sus huesos.

18 Por tanto, así dice el SEÑOR de los ejércitos, el Dios de Israel: "He aquí, castigaré al rey de Babilonia y a su tierra, como castigué al rey de Asiria.