Yirmeyah 50:41

41 Hinei, an am (people, army) shall come from the tzafon (north), and a Goy Gadol, and melachim rabbim shall be stirred up from the ends of the earth.

Yirmeyah 50:41 Meaning and Commentary

Jeremiah 50:41

Behold, a people shall come from the north, and a great
nation
The Modes and Persians, whose country lay north of Babylon: (See Gill on Jeremiah 50:9); and many kings shall be raised up from the coasts of the earth;
the kings of Ararat, Minni, and Ashchenaz, ( Jeremiah 51:27 ) ; and of the Armenians and other nations that Cyrus had subdued and brought with him in his army against Babylon, as Xenophon ^F19 relates. Ten kings shall be raised up against mystical Babylon, and hate her, and burn her with fire, ( Revelation 17:12 Revelation 17:16 ) .

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FOOTNOTES:

F19 Cyropaedia, l. 5. c. 15.

Yirmeyah 50:41 In-Context

39 Therefore the wild animals of the desert with the hyenas shall dwell in her [Babylon], and the ostriches shall dwell therein; and it shall be no more inhabited lanetzach (forever); neither shall it be dwelt in from dor vador.

40 As Elohim overthrew Sodom and Amora (Gomorrah) and the neighboring towns thereof, saith Hashem; so shall no ish abide there, neither shall any ben adam dwell therein.

41 Hinei, an am (people, army) shall come from the tzafon (north), and a Goy Gadol, and melachim rabbim shall be stirred up from the ends of the earth.

42 They shall wield keshet and spear; they are cruel, and shall show no rachamim; their voice shall roar like the yam, and they shall ride upon susim, every one put in array, like an ish for the milchamah, against thee, O Bat Bavel.

43 Melech Bavel hath heard the report of them, and his hands fell feeble; anguish took hold of him, and labor pangs as of a woman in travail.