Jérémie 50:15

15 Jetez de grands cris sur elle tout autour. Elle tend les mains; ses fondements s'écroulent, ses murailles sont renversées; car c'est la vengeance de l'Éternel. Vengez-vous d'elle; faites-lui comme elle a fait.

Jérémie 50:15 Meaning and Commentary

Jeremiah 50:15

Shout against her round about
As soldiers do when they make an assault upon a place, to encourage one another, and dismay the besieged; just as the Israelites did when they surrounded Jericho: she hath given her hand;
submitted to the conqueror, and sued for mercy. The Targum is,

``she is delivered into her hand;''

the hand of the Persians, by two princes of Babylon, who went off to Cyrus, and showed him how to take the city; or rather it was delivered by Zopyrus into the hands of Darius: her foundations are fallen, her walls are thrown down;
not at the taking of it by Cyrus, but afterwards by Darius; for this respects the conclusion of its destruction, which was progressive and gradual: for it [is] the vengeance of the Lord:
which he decreed, threatened, and took, and that on account of his people, who had been ill treated here; so the Targum,

``for it is the vengeance of the people of the Lord:''

and her enemies are called upon to take vengeance upon her; as she hath done, do unto her;
that is, to execute the Lord's vengeance, of which the Persians were the instruments; and who were to go according to the law of retaliation, which is a just one; to do to Babylon as she had done to Jerusalem, and other places, she had utterly destroyed. These words seem to be referred to, and much the same are used of mystical Babylon, ( Revelation 18:6 ) .

Jérémie 50:15 In-Context

13 A cause de la colère de l'Éternel, elle ne sera plus habitée, et tout entière elle ne sera que désolation; quiconque passera près de Babylone sera étonné, et sifflera à cause de toutes ses plaies.

14 Rangez-vous en bataille autour de Babylone, vous tous qui bandez l'arc. Tirez contre elle, et n'épargnez pas les flèches; car elle a péché contre l'Éternel.

15 Jetez de grands cris sur elle tout autour. Elle tend les mains; ses fondements s'écroulent, ses murailles sont renversées; car c'est la vengeance de l'Éternel. Vengez-vous d'elle; faites-lui comme elle a fait.

16 Retranchez à Babylone celui qui sème, et celui qui tient la faucille au temps de la moisson; devant l'épée qui désole, que chacun retourne vers son peuple, que chacun fuie vers son pays!

17 Israël est une brebis égarée, que les lions ont chassée. Le roi d'Assyrie l'a dévorée le premier; mais ce dernier, Nébucadnetsar, roi de Babylone, lui a brisé les os.