Jeremías 50:17

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.

Jeremías 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.

Jeremías 50:17 In-Context

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.

19 "Y volveré a traer a Israel a su pastizal, y pacerá en el Carmelo y en Basán, y se saciarán sus deseos en la región montañosa de Efraín y en Galaad.