Jeremías 51:5

5 Pues el Señor
de los Ejércitos Celestiales
no ha abandonado a Israel ni a Judá.
Todavía es su Dios,
aunque su tierra se llenó de pecado
contra el Santo de Israel».

Jeremías 51:5 Meaning and Commentary

Jeremiah 51:5

For Israel [hath] not [been] forsaken, nor Judah of his God,
of the Lord of hosts
That is, not totally and finally; for though they might seem to be forsaken, when carried captive by their enemies, yet they were not in such sense as a woman is deprived of her husband when dead, and she is become a widow, as the word ^F4 used may signify; or when divorced from him; or as children are deprived of their parents, and become orphans; but so it was not with Israel; for thought they were under the frowns of Providence, and the resentment of God they had sinned against, yet the relation between them still subsisted; he was their covenant God and Father, their husband and protector, and who would vindicate them, and avenge them on their enemies: though their land was filled with sin against the Holy One of Israel;
which was the reason why they were carried captive, and so seemed to be forsaken of God; or though their land was filled with punishment, with devastation and destruction, yet nevertheless God would appear for them, and restore that and them unto it; or rather this is to be understood of the land of the Chaldeans, as it is by Jarchi and Kimchi; and be rendered, "for their land is filled with [punishment] for sin, from", or "by", or "because of the Holy One of Israel" ^F5; by which it appears, that the people of God were not forsaken by him, and were not without a patron and defender of them; since it was a plain case that the land of the Chaldeans was filled with the punishment of the sword and other calamities by the Holy One of Israel, because of the sins they had committed against him, and the injuries they had done to his people. So the Targum,

``for their land is filled with, (punishment for) the sins of murder, by the word of the Holy One of Israel.''

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FOOTNOTES:

F4 (Nmla) "viduus, [sive] viduatus", Vatablus, Calvin, Montanus; "ut vidua", Pagninus; "orbus", Schmidt.
F5 (Mva halm Mura yk) "quia terra illorum repleta est delicto, [sive] reatu, [vel] poena", Grotius; so some in Gataker. (larvy vwdqm) "a Sancto Israelis", Montanus, Schmidt; "propter Sanctum Israelis", Vatablus, Calvin, Cocceius; so Ben Melech.

Jeremías 51:5 In-Context

3 No dejen que los arqueros se pongan sus armaduras
ni que tensen sus arcos.
¡No perdonen la vida ni siquiera a sus mejores soldados!
Que su ejército sea completamente destruido.

4 Caerán muertos en la tierra de los babilonios,
acuchillados en sus calles.

5 Pues el Señor
de los Ejércitos Celestiales
no ha abandonado a Israel ni a Judá.
Todavía es su Dios,
aunque su tierra se llenó de pecado
contra el Santo de Israel».

6 ¡Huyan de Babilonia! ¡Sálvense a sí mismos!
¡No queden atrapados en su castigo!
Es el tiempo de la venganza del Señor
,
él le dará su merecido.

7 Babilonia ha sido como copa de oro en las manos del Señor
,
copa que hizo emborrachar a todo el mundo.
Las naciones bebieron del vino de Babilonia
y se enloquecieron.