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Jeremiah 50
The judgment of Babel, and the land of Chaldea, for their
idolatry, tyranny and pride; with gracious promises of the
redemption of Israel intermixed, ver. 1-46.
Verse 2. Bel - Bel and Merodach were the two principal idols of the
Babylonians.
Verse 3. The north - From Media which lay northward to Babylon and
Assyria.
Verse 4. In those days - In the days wherein God shall begin to execute
judgment upon Babylon, (which was in the time of Cyrus) the
children of Judah shall come out of captivity, and some of the
children of Israel hearing that their brethren were gone out of
Babylon, shall go up also from the several places into which they
were disposed by the Assyrians: weeping for their sins, or for joy
that God should shew them such mercy.
Verse 6. Their shepherds - Their civil and ecclesiastical governors have
been a cause of it. The former by their wicked commands and
example; the latter by example as well as doctrine. Turned them -
To offer sacrifices unto idols. From mountain - From one idolatry
to another. Forgotten - They have forgotten me.
Verse 7. Habitation - Some think this is a name here given to God, who
indeed is the habitation of justice, but whether the Chaldeans
would call him so, may be a question. Others therefore think the
preposition in is understood, making this the aggravation of the
Jews sins, that they were committed in a land which ought to have
been an habitation of justice.
Verse 8. Remove - God commands his people to remove out of Babylon,
and to go forth chearfully like the he-goats of a flock leading the
way.
Verse 10. Satisfied - Satisfied with spoil and plunder.
Verse 11. Because - They rejoiced at the ruin of the Jews. Fat - The
cause for which Babylon is threatened, was doubtless their luxury
of all sorts commonly attending great wealth.
Verse 12. Mother - Your country, shall be ashamed of you, who are not
able to defend her.
Verse 15. Given her hand - Acknowledging themselves overcome, and
yielding. As she hath done - Unmerciful men find no mercy.
Verse 16. Every one - Either such strangers as for commerce had their
abodes in Babylon, or such assistance as the Babylonians had
gotten against their enemies.
Verse 17. Israel - The whole twelve tribes. Lions - Enemies cruel as
lions had carried them into captivity.
Verse 20. Not found - God will no longer punish the sins of the Jews,
they should be sought for as to punishment and not found.
Reserve - Whom I save from the captivity of Babylon.
Verse 21. Merathaim - The names of some places which Cyrus took in
his way to Babylon.
Verse 22. The land - Of Chaldea.
Verse 26. Open her store-houses - The granaries, or treasures of the
Babylonians.
Verse 27. Bullocks - The great and rich men of Babylon.
Verse 28. The vengeance - The revenge which God had taken for his
holy temple, which the Chaldeans had destroyed.
Verse 33. Together - Together in this place signifies no more than that
they were both oppressed, or alike oppressed.
Verse 34. Plead - He will actually and readily effect it.
Verse 36. Dote - Their soothsayers and wizards shall dote, not
foreseeing what will be. Dismayed - Their hearts shall fail them
when this day comes.
Verse 37. Horses - Through they be full of chariots and horses, the
enemy shall destroy them. Mingled people - People that were not
native Chaldeans, but under their dominion.
Verse 38. Dried - This phrase has a plain reference to Cyrus's stratagem
used in the surprize of Babylon; one part of it was fortified by the
great river Euphrates, which Cyrus diverted by cutting several
channels, 'till he had drained it so low, that it became passable for
his army; others think that a want of rain is here threatened.
Verse 40. No man - Cyrus only made them tributaries, and took away
their government. But Seleucus Nicanor, a Grecian prince, utterly
destroyed Babylon, so that in the time of Adrian the Roman
emperor, there was nothing left standing of that great city.
Chapter 50:
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