Jeremiah 50:35

35 A sword is over the Chaldeans- [this is]*The bracketed text has been added for clarity. the Lord's declaration- against those who live in Babylon, against her officials, and against her sages.

Jeremiah 50:35 Meaning and Commentary

Jeremiah 50:35

A sword [is] upon the Chaldeans, saith the Lord
Or, "shall be" ^F11 or, "O sword, [be thou] on the Chaldeans" ^F12; that is, the sword of the Medes and Persians; those that kill with the sword, as the Targum; in the mystic sense, the Christian princes that shall draw the sword against the antichristian states: and upon the inhabitants of Babylon;
the metropolis of Chaldea; the common people in it, as distinguished from those of high rank and degree following: and upon her princes;
Belshazzar and his nobles, who were slain the night Babylon was taken: and upon her wise [men];
prime ministers, politicians, and counsellors of state; neither high birth nor great wisdom can secure from the sword of the enemy, when it has a commission from God, as it had here.

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FOOTNOTES:

F11 "Erit", Abarbinel; "irruet", Junius & Tremellius, Piscator.
F12 (Mydvk le brx) "gladie, super Chaldaeos, scil. veni, ades", Schmidt.

Jeremiah 50:35 In-Context

33 This is what the Lord of Hosts says: Israelites and Judeans alike have been oppressed. All their captors hold them fast; they refuse to release them.

34 Their Redeemer is strong; the Lord of Hosts is His name. He will fervently plead their case so that He might bring rest to the earth but turmoil to those who live in Babylon.

35 A sword is over the Chaldeans- [this is]*The bracketed text has been added for clarity. the Lord's declaration- against those who live in Babylon, against her officials, and against her sages.

36 A sword is against the diviners, and they will act foolishly. A sword is against her heroic warriors, and they will be terrified.

37 A sword is against his horses and chariots and against all the foreigners among them, and they will be like women. A sword is against her treasuries, and they will be plundered.