Geremia 50:15

15 Levate contro di lei il grido di guerra, d’ogn’intorno; ella si arrende; le sue colonne cadono, le sue mura crollano, perché questa è la vendetta dell’Eterno! Vendicatevi di lei! Fate a lei com’essa ha fatto!

Geremia 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 ) .

Geremia 50:15 In-Context

13 A motivo dell’ira dell’Eterno non sarà più abitata, sarà una completa solitudine; chiunque passerà presso a Babilonia rimarrà stupito, e fischierà per tutte le sue piaghe.

14 Schieratevi contro Babilonia d’ogn’intorno, o voi tutti che tirate d’arco! Tirate contro di lei, non risparmiate le frecce! poich’essa ha peccato contro l’Eterno.

15 Levate contro di lei il grido di guerra, d’ogn’intorno; ella si arrende; le sue colonne cadono, le sue mura crollano, perché questa è la vendetta dell’Eterno! Vendicatevi di lei! Fate a lei com’essa ha fatto!

16 Sterminate da Babilonia colui che semina, e colui che maneggia la falce al tempo della mèsse. Per scampare alla spada micidiale ritorni ciascuno al suo popolo, fugga ciascuno verso il proprio paese!

17 Israele è una pecora smarrita, a cui de’ leoni han dato la caccia; il re d’Assiria, pel primo, l’ha divorata; e quest’ultimo, Nebucadnetsar, re di Babilonia, le ha frantumate le ossa.