Yēlìmǐshū 51:37

37 Bābǐlún bì chéngwéi luàn duī , wèi yĕ gǒu de zhù chù , líng rén jīnghaì , chīxiào , bìngqiĕ wú rén jūzhù .

Yēlìmǐshū 51:37 Meaning and Commentary

Jeremiah 51:37

And Babylon shall become heaps
The houses should be demolished, and the stones lie in heaps one upon another, and become mere rubbish: a dwelling place for dragons;
and other wild and savage creatures. Dragons, as Aelianus ^F1 observes, love to live in desert places, and such now Babylon is; it lies in ruins; and even its palace is so full of scorpions and serpents, as Benjamin of Tudela ^F2 says it was in his time, that men durst not enter into it; see ( Jeremiah 50:39 ) ( Isaiah 13:21 Isaiah 13:22 ) ; an astonishment, and an hissing, without an inhabitant;
an astonishment to neighbouring nations, and to all that pass by; who shall hiss at the destruction of it, and rejoice, there being not so much as a single inhabitant in it; which is its case to this day; see ( Jeremiah 50:13 Jeremiah 50:39 ) .

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FOOTNOTES:

F1 De Animal. l. 6. c. 63.
F2 Itinerarium, p. 76.

Yēlìmǐshū 51:37 In-Context

35 Xī \'ān de jūmín yào shuō , Bābǐlún yǐ qiángbào dāi wǒ , sún haì wǒde shēntǐ , yuàn zhè zuì guī gĕi tā . Yēlùsǎlĕng rén yào shuō , yuàn liú wǒmen xuè de zuì guī dào Jiālèdǐ de jūmín .

36 Suǒyǐ , Yēhéhuá rúcǐ shuō , wǒ bì wèi nǐ shēnyuān , wèi nǐ bàochóu . wǒ bì shǐ Bābǐlún de hǎi kū jié , shǐ tāde quányuán gān hé .

37 Bābǐlún bì chéngwéi luàn duī , wèi yĕ gǒu de zhù chù , líng rén jīnghaì , chīxiào , bìngqiĕ wú rén jūzhù .

38 Tāmen yào xiàng shǎo zhuàng shīzi paó xiāo , xiàng xiǎo shīzi hǒu jiào .

39 Tāmen huǒ rè de shíhou , wǒ bì wèi tāmen shè bǎi jiǔ xí , shǐ tāmen chén zuì , hǎo jiào tāmen kuaìlè , shuì le zhǎng jué , yǒng bù xǐng qǐ . zhè shì Yēhéhuá shuō de .