Geremia 50:17

17 Israele è stato una pecorella smarrita, i leoni l’hanno cacciata; il primo che la divorò fu il re d’Assiria; ma quest’ultimo, cioè, Nebucadnesar, re di Babilonia, le ha tritate le ossa.

Geremia 50:17 Meaning and Commentary

Jeremiah 50:17

Israel [is] a scattered sheep
Or like a sheep that is frightened and drove from the fold, and is dispersed, and wanders about here and there; Israel includes all the twelve tribes: the lions have driven [him] away;
from his own land, and carried him captive, and scattered him among the nations; these lions are afterwards interpreted of the kings of Assyria and Babylon: so the Targum,

``kings have removed them;''

comparable to lions for their strength, fierceness, and voraciousness: first the king of Assyria hath devoured him;
eaten up his flesh; meaning Shalmaneser king of Assyria, who carried captive the ten tribes, that never returned, and therefore said to be devoured: and last this Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon hath broken his bones;
or, "boned him" ^F20; took out his bones, all his strength and substance; or took the flesh off of them, stripped him of all his wealth and riches, reduced him to his bones, made a mere skeleton of him: we, with Kimchi and Ben Melech, and others, read "broke his bones"; to get the very marrow out, that nothing may be left of him: he took Jerusalem, burnt the temple, and carried captive the two tribes of Judah and Benjamin, the strength of Israel; so, between the one and the other, all Israel were like a scattered sheep, dispersed among the nations. Nebuchadrezzar was the then reigning king in Babylon when this prophecy was delivered, and therefore called "this Nebuchadrezzar".

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FOOTNOTES:

F20 (wmue) "exossavit eum", Munster, Montanus, Cocceius.

Geremia 50:17 In-Context

15 Date di gran gridi contro a lei d’ogn’intorno; ella porge le mani; i suoi fondamenti caggiono, e le sue mura son diroccate; perciocchè questa è la vendetta del Signore; prendete vendetta di lei; fatele siccome ella ha fatto.

16 Sterminate di Babilonia il seminatore, e colui che tratta la falce nel tempo della mietitura; ritorni ciascuno al suo popolo, e fuggasene ciascuno al suo paese, d’innanzi alla spada dello sforzatore.

17 Israele è stato una pecorella smarrita, i leoni l’hanno cacciata; il primo che la divorò fu il re d’Assiria; ma quest’ultimo, cioè, Nebucadnesar, re di Babilonia, le ha tritate le ossa.

18 Perciò, il Signor degli eserciti, l’Iddio d’Israele, ha detto così: Ecco, io farò punizione del re di Babilonia, e del suo paese, siccome ho fatta punizione del re di Assiria.

19 E ricondurrò Israele alla sua mandra, ed egli pasturerà in Carmel, ed in Basan; e l’anima sua sarà saziata nel monte di Efraim, e di Galaad.