Jeremiah 51:34
in Jeremiah 51“Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has devoured me; he has crushed me. He has set me aside like an empty vessel; he has swallowed me like a monster; he filled his belly with my delicacies and vomited me out.
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ASV
Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon hath devoured me, he hath crushed me, he hath made me an empty vessel, he hath, like a monster, swallowed me up, he hath filled his maw with my delicacies; he hath cast me out.
KJV
Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon hath devoured me, he hath crushed me, he hath made me an empty vessel, he hath swallowed me up like a dragon, he hath filled his belly with my delicates, he hath cast me out.
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This verse in Jeremiah 51
Commentary
6 notes on this verseNebuchadrezzar - hath devoured me - These are the words of Judea; he has taken away all my riches. He hath cast me out - He shall vomit all up; i.e., they shall be regained.
This site's exposition
Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has devoured me
on Jeremiah 51:34-40
Zion speaks, “Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has devoured me.” The LORD answers as the Redeemer of 50:34, “Behold, I will plead your case and take vengeance on your behalf.” Babylon’s feast ends in a sleep from which they “never wake up,” and they go down “like lambs to the slaughter.”
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices
Judgment given upon this appeal by the righteous Judge of heaven and earth, on behalf of Israel against Babylon. He sits in the throne judging right, is ready to receive complaints, and answers (
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The Nineteenth Century2 voices
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
Her groans are what bring down retribution in kind on Babylon (Jer 50:17; Ps 102:13, 17, 20). empty vessel--He has drained me out. dragon--The serpent often "swallows" its prey whole; or a sea monster [GROTIUS]. filled his belly . . . cast me out--like a beast, which, having "filled" himself to satiety, "casts out" the rest [CALVIN].
A commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
proposed
Literally, “Nebuchadrezzar ... hath devoured us, hath crushed us, he hath set as aside as an empty vessel, he hath swallowed as like a crocodile, he hath filled his maw with my delicacies Gen 49:20, he hath cast us out. My wrong and my flesh be upon Babylon, shall the inhabitress of Zion say: and my blood be etc.” Nebuchadnezzar had devoured Jerusalem, had treated her as ruthlessly as a crocodile does its prey, and for this cruelty he and Babylon are justly to be punished.
The words behind it
14 Hebrew wordsEvery 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.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| אֲכָלַ֣נִי | ʾakhalani | he devoured me | H398 → | 810 times |
| הֲמָמַ֗נִי | hamamani | he confused me | H2000 → | |
| נְבוּכַדְרֶאצַּר֮ | nevukhadretzar | Nebuchadnezzar | H5019 → | 60 times |
| מֶ֣לֶךְ | melekh | [the] king of | H4428 → | 2525 times |
| בָּבֶל֒ | bavel | Babylon | H894 → | 262 times |
| הִצִּיגַ֙נִי֙ | hitzigani | he set down me | H3322 → | |
| כְּלִ֣י | keli | a vessel of | H3627 → | 325 times |
| רִ֔יק | rik | emptiness | H7385 → | |
| בְּלָעַ֙נִי֙ | belaani | he swallowed me | H1104 → | |
| כַּתַּנִּ֔ין | katanin | like <the> sea monster | H8577 → | 28 times |
| מִלָּ֥א | mila' | he filled | H4390 → | 249 times |
| כְרֵשׂ֖וֹ | khereso | belly his | H3770 → | |
| מֵֽעֲדָנָ֑י | meadanai | from delicacies my | H5730 → | |
| הֱדִיחָֽנִי׃ | hedichani | he rinsed out me | H1740 → |
אֲכָלַ֣נִיhe devoured me
ʾakhalaniH398 →810 times
הֲמָמַ֗נִיhe confused me
hamamaniH2000 →
נְבוּכַדְרֶאצַּר֮Nebuchadnezzar
nevukhadretzarH5019 →60 times
מֶ֣לֶךְ[the] king of
melekhH4428 →2525 times
בָּבֶל֒Babylon
bavelH894 →262 times
הִצִּיגַ֙נִי֙he set down me
hitziganiH3322 →
כְּלִ֣יa vessel of
keliH3627 →325 times
רִ֔יקemptiness
rikH7385 →
בְּלָעַ֙נִי֙he swallowed me
belaaniH1104 →
כַּתַּנִּ֔יןlike <the> sea monster
kataninH8577 →28 times
מִלָּ֥אhe filled
mila'H4390 →249 times
כְרֵשׂ֖וֹbelly his
kheresoH3770 →
מֵֽעֲדָנָ֑יfrom delicacies my
meadanaiH5730 →
הֱדִיחָֽנִי׃he rinsed out me
hedichaniH1740 →
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach 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
Matthew 23:13Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You shut the kingdom of heaven in men’s faces. You yourselves do not enter, nor will you let in those who wish to enter.
it leads to
- Luke 11:52
Woe to you experts in the law! For you have taken away the key to knowledge. You yourselves have not entered, and you have hindered those who were entering.”
- Matthew 23:29
Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You build tombs for the prophets and decorate the monuments of the righteous.
- Matthew 23:23
Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You pay tithes of mint, dill, and cumin. But you have disregarded the weightier matters of the law: justice, mercy, and faithfulness. You should have practiced…
- Matthew 23:27
Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside, but on the inside are full of dead men’s bones and every kind of impurity.
- Zechariah 11:17
Woe to the worthless shepherd, who deserts the flock! May a sword strike his arm and his right eye! May his arm be completely withered and his right eye utterly blinded!”
- Luke 11:52
Through
Job 20:15He swallows wealth but vomits it out; God will force it from his stomach.
it leads to
- Proverbs 23:8
You will vomit up what little you have eaten and waste your pleasant words.
- Matthew 27:3–4
When Judas, who had betrayed Him, saw that Jesus was condemned, he was filled with remorse and returned the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders.
- Proverbs 23:8
Through
Jeremiah 50:17Israel is a scattered flock, chased away by lions. The first to devour him was the king of Assyria; the last to crush his bones was Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon.”
it leads to
- Jeremiah 2:15
The young lions have roared at him; they have growled with a loud voice. They have laid waste his land; his cities lie in ruins, without inhabitant.
- Jeremiah 2:15
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This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; 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 Calvin, Commentary on Jeremiah and Lamentations; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.