Jeremiah 50:45

Overview - Jeremiah 50
The judgment of Babylon and the redemption of Israel.
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Jeremiah 50:45  (King James Version)
Therefore hear ye the counsel of the LORD, that he hath taken against Babylon; and his purposes, that he hath purposed against the land of the Chaldeans: Surely the least of the flock shall draw them out: surely he shall make their habitation desolate with them.
 


hear
Jeremiah 51:10 Jeremiah 51:11 Psalms 33:10 Psalms 33:11 ; Isaiah 14:24-27 ; Isaiah 46:10 Isaiah 46:11 Acts 4:28 ; Ephesians 1:11
Revelation 17:16 Revelation 17:17

the least
37:10 49:20

surely he
We have already adverted to the completion of the prophecies respecting the final destruction of Babylon, (on Isaiah 13:18, ,)and shall only add a few more observations, in order to shew more clearly the full accomplishment of some of these predictions. Strabo says that in his time (about the Christian era) a great part of it was a desert. Jerome says that in his time (cir
A.D. 340) it was quite in ruins, the walls merely serving for an inclosure for wild beasts, for the hunting of the kings of Parthia: and modern travellers universally concur in describing it in a state of utter desolation, and the habitation of wild beasts and noxious reptiles.