Yēlìmǐshū 50:12

12 Nǐmen de mǔ Bābǐlún jiù jíqí bào kuì , shēng nǐmen de bìrán méng xiū . tā yào liè zaì zhū guó zhī mò , chéngwéi kuàngyĕ , hàndì , shā mò .

Yēlìmǐshū 50:12 Meaning and Commentary

Jeremiah 50:12

Your mother shall be sore confounded
The monarchy of the Chaldeans; so the Targum and jarchi, your congregation; or rather their metropolis, their mother city, the city of Babylon; which would be confounded when taken, none of her sons being able to defend her: the same will be true of mystical Babylon, the mother of harlots, ( Revelation 17:5 ) ; she that bare you shall be ashamed;
which is the same as before, in different words: behold, the hindermost of the nations [shall be] a wilderness, a dry
land, and a desert;
or, as the Vulgate Latin version, "she shall be the last among the nations"; she that was the head of them, signified by the head of gold in Nebuchadnezzar's image, shall now be the tail of them, and become like a dry land and desert, without inhabitants, having neither men nor cattle in it; see ( Jeremiah 50:3 ) ; or, as Jarchi and Kimchi, their end, "the latter end" ^F13 of the kingdom of Babylon; or what should befall that people in their last days would be, that their land should become a wilderness, the habitants being slain, and none to till it; or Babylon is called the last of the nations, because her punishment, in order of time, was last, as Gussetius ^F14 thinks; ( Jeremiah 25:26 ) .

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FOOTNOTES:

F13 (Mywg tyrxa) "finis seu extremitas gentium", Vatablus, Montanus, Schmidt.
F14 Comment. Ebr. p. 30.

Yēlìmǐshū 50:12 In-Context

10 JiālèDǐbì chéngwéi lüè wù . fán lǔlǜe tāde dōu bì xīn mǎn yì zú . zhè shì Yēhéhuá shuō de .

11 Qiǎngduó wǒ chǎnyè de a , nǐmen yīn huānxǐ kuaìlè , qiĕ xiàng chuaì gǔ sǎ huān de mǔ niúdú , yòu xiàng fā sī shēng de zhuàng mǎ .

12 Nǐmen de mǔ Bābǐlún jiù jíqí bào kuì , shēng nǐmen de bìrán méng xiū . tā yào liè zaì zhū guó zhī mò , chéngwéi kuàngyĕ , hàndì , shā mò .

13 Yīn Yēhéhuá de fèn nù , bì wú rén jūzhù , yào quán rán huāngliáng . fán jīngguò Bābǐlún de yào shòu jīnghaì , yòu yīn tā suǒ zāo de zāiyāng chīxiào .

14 Suǒ yǒu lá gōng de , nǐmen yào zaì Bābǐlún de sìwéi bǎi zhèn , shè jiàn gōngjī tā . búyào aìxī jiàn zhī , yīn tā dézuì le Yēhéhuá .