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Jeremiah 50:39

in Jeremiah 50

So the desert creatures and hyenas will live there and ostriches will dwell there. It will never again be inhabited or lived in from generation to generation.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

Therefore the wild beasts of the desert with the wolves shall dwell there, and the ostriches shall dwell therein: and it shall be no more inhabited for ever; neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation.

KJV

Therefore the wild beasts of the desert with the wild beasts of the islands shall dwell there, and the owls shall dwell therein: and it shall be no more inhabited for ever; neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation.

This verse in Jeremiah 50

Commentary

5 notes on this verse

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

The wild beasts of the desert - Dahler translates these various terms, “The wild cats, the jackals, and the ostriches.” And Blayney the same. Wicklif, “Dragons, woodewoses, and ostriches.” Coverdale, “Wild beestes, apes, and estriches.”

This site's exposition

A sword is against the Chaldeans

on Jeremiah 50:35-40

“A sword is against” repeats through verses 35 to 37, striking Babylon’s officials, wise men, false prophets, warriors, horses, chariots, and treasuries. Verse 38 adds, “A drought is upon her waters, and they will be dried up.” Herodotus records Cyrus took the city by turning the Euphrates from its bed.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

Therefore the wild beasts of the desert with the wild beasts of the islands shall dwell there,....

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

Literally, "daughters of crying." Compare as to spiritual Babylon, Re 18:2. no more inhabited for ever--The accumulation of phrases is to express the final and utter extinction of Babylon; fulfilled not immediately, but by degrees;
Wild beasts of the islands - Jackals. Owls - Ostriches (marginal reference note).

The words behind it

18 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • לָכֵ֗ן<to> therefore

    lakhenH3651 →771 times

  • יֵשְׁב֤וּthey will dwell

    yeshevuH3427 →1079 times

  • צִיִּים֙desert-dwellers

    tziyimH6728 →

  • אֶת־with

    ʾet-H854 →929 times

  • אִיִּ֔יםhyenas

    ʾiyimH338 →

  • וְיָ֥שְׁבוּand they will dwell

    veyashevuH3427 →1079 times

  • בָ֖הּin <the> it

    vah

  • בְּנ֣וֹתdaughters of

    benotH1323 →588 times

  • יַֽעֲנָ֑הan ostrich

    yaanahH3284 →

  • וְלֹֽא־and not

    velo'-H3808 →5168 times

  • תֵשֵׁ֥בit will remain

    teshevH3427 →1079 times

  • עוֹד֙again

    ʾodH5750 →490 times

  • לָנֶ֔צַחto perpetuity

    lanetzachH5331 →43 times

  • וְלֹ֥אand not

    velo'H3808 →5168 times

  • תִשְׁכּ֖וֹןit will settle

    tishkonH7931 →129 times

  • עַד־until

    ʾad-H5704 →1261 times

  • דּ֥וֹרa generation

    dorH1755 →167 times

  • וָדֽוֹר׃and a generation

    vadorH1755 →167 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Revelation 18:2

    And he cried out in a mighty voice: “Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great! She has become a lair for demons and a haunt for every unclean spirit, every unclean bird, and every detestable…

    it leads to

    • Revelation 14:8

      Then a second angel followed, saying, “Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great, who has made all the nations drink the wine of the passion of her immorality.”

    • Jeremiah 51:8

      Suddenly Babylon has fallen and been shattered. Wail for her; get her balm for her pain; perhaps she can be healed.

    • Jeremiah 51:37

      Babylon will become a heap of rubble, a haunt for jackals, an object of horror and scorn, without inhabitant.

    • Jeremiah 50:39–40

      So the desert creatures and hyenas will live there and ostriches will dwell there. It will never again be inhabited or lived in from generation to generation.

    • Jeremiah 51:60–64

      Jeremiah had written on a single scroll about all the disaster that would come upon Babylon—all these words that had been written concerning Babylon.

  • Through

    Jeremiah 25:12

    But when seventy years are complete, I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation, the land of the Chaldeans, for their guilt, declares the LORD, and I will make it an everlasting…

    it leads to

    • Daniel 9:2

      in the first year of his reign, I, Daniel, understood from the sacred books, according to the word of the LORD to Jeremiah the prophet, that the desolation of Jerusalem would last seventy years.

    • Isaiah 13:19

      And Babylon, the jewel of the kingdoms, the glory of the pride of the Chaldeans, will be overthrown by God like Sodom and Gomorrah.

    • Jeremiah 29:10

      For this is what the LORD says: “When Babylon’s seventy years are complete, I will attend to you and confirm My promise to restore you to this place.

About Jeremiah

Jeremiah Lamenting the Destruction of Jerusalem, Rembrandt, 1630. Public domain.
Jeremiah Lamenting the Destruction of Jerusalem, Rembrandt, 1630. Public domain.

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament and John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763).