Jeremiah 50:12

12 Well, your mother would hardly be proud of you. The woman who bore you wouldn't be pleased. Look at what's come of you! A nothing nation! Rubble and garbage and weeds!

Jeremiah 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.

Jeremiah 50:12 In-Context

10 Babylon is ripe for picking! All her plunderers will fill their bellies!" God's Decree.

11 "You Babylonians had a good time while it lasted, didn't you? You lived it up, exploiting and using my people, Frisky calves romping in lush pastures, wild stallions out having a good time!

12 Well, your mother would hardly be proud of you. The woman who bore you wouldn't be pleased. Look at what's come of you! A nothing nation! Rubble and garbage and weeds!

13 Emptied of life by my holy anger, a desert of death and emptiness. Travelers who pass by Babylon will gasp, appalled, shaking their heads at such a comedown.

14 Gang up on Babylon! Pin her down! Throw everything you have against her. Hold nothing back. Knock her flat. She's sinned - oh, how she's sinned, against me!