Yēlìmǐshū 50:13

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 .

Yēlìmǐshū 50:13 Meaning and Commentary

Jeremiah 50:13

Because of the wrath of the Lord, it shall not be inhabited,
&c.] That is, Babylon; which the Targum expresses,

``because thou, Babylon, hast provoked the Lord;''

by their idolatry, luxury, ill usage of his people, and profanation of the vessels of the sanctuary; therefore it should be destroyed, and left without an inhabitant in it: but it shall be wholly desolate;
as it now is. Pausanias says ^F15, in his time there was nothing but a wall remaining; and Jerom ^F16 says, he had it from a brother Elamite, or Persian, that Babylon was then a park or place for royal hunting, and that beasts of every kind were kept within its walls: of mystical Babylon, see ( Revelation 16:19 ) ( 18:2 ) ; everyone that goeth by Babylon shall be astonished, and hiss at all
her plagues;
any traveller that had seen it in its glory would now be astonished to see the desolation of it; and, by way of scorn and derision, hiss at the judgments of God upon it, and rejoice at them, and shake their head, as the Targum.

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FOOTNOTES:

F15 Arcadica, sive l. 8. p. 509.
F16 Comment. in Isaiam, fol. 23. C.

Yēlìmǐshū 50:13 In-Context

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 .

15 Nǐmen yào zaì tā sìwéi nè hǎn . tā yǐjing tóu xiáng . waì guō tān tā le , chéngqiáng chāihuǐ le , yīnwei zhè shì Yēhéhuá bàochóu de shì . nǐmen yào xiàng Bābǐlún bàochóu . tā zĕnyàng dāi rén , yĕ yào zĕnyàng dāi tā .