Jeremiah 51:37
in Jeremiah 51Babylon will become a heap of rubble, a haunt for jackals, an object of horror and scorn, without inhabitant.
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
And Babylon shall become heaps, a dwelling-place for jackals, an astonishment, and a hissing, without inhabitant.
KJV
And Babylon shall become heaps, a dwellingplace for dragons, an astonishment, and an hissing, without an inhabitant.
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This verse in Jeremiah 51
Commentary
4 notes on this verseA commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
Heaps - Of rubbish, formed in this case by the decay of the unburned bricks of which Babylon was built. It is these heaps which have yielded such a large wealth of historical documents in our own days. Dragons - Jackals Jer 10:22.
This site's exposition
Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon hath devoured me
on Jeremiah 51:34-40
The voice that speaks here is read two ways by the bench, Zion herself personified describing her own violation, or the prophet lending the city his own words, and verse 35 settles it as Jerusalem's own complaint, my blood upon the inhabitants of Chaldea, shall Jerusalem say. The Lord answers as the go'el named two chapters earlier, I will plead thy cause, and take vengeance for thee, drying up her sea and her springs in direct reply to the violence done. Babylon's own feasts turn to her undoing, made drunken that they may sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, and the chapter's last image is lambs led to slaughter, the helplessness of the conquered handed to the conqueror in turn.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice
And Babylon shall become heaps,.... The houses should be demolished, and the stones lie in heaps one upon another, and become mere rubbish: a dwelling place for dragons; and other wild and savage creatures.
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
The capture of Babylon was effected on the night of a festival in honor of its idols. roar . . . yell--The Babylonians were shouting in drunken revelry (compare Da 5:4).
The words behind it
9 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וְהָיְתָה֩ | vehayetah | and it will become | H1961 → | 3559 times |
| בָבֶ֨ל׀ | vavel | Babylon | H894 → | 262 times |
| לְגַלִּ֧ים׀ | legalim | <into> heaps of stones | H1530 → | 34 times |
| מְעוֹן־ | meon- | a habitation of | H4583 → | 18 times |
| תַּנִּ֛ים | tanim | jackals | H8577 → | 28 times |
| שַׁמָּ֥ה | shamah | a horror | H8047 → | 39 times |
| וּשְׁרֵקָ֖ה | usherekah | and a hissing | H8322 → | 7 times |
| מֵאֵ֥ין | meein | from not | H369 → | 789 times |
| יוֹשֵֽׁב׃ | yoshev | inhabitant | H3427 → | 1079 times |
וְהָיְתָה֩and it will become
vehayetahH1961 →3559 times
בָבֶ֨ל׀Babylon
vavelH894 →262 times
לְגַלִּ֧ים׀<into> heaps of stones
legalimH1530 →34 times
מְעוֹן־a habitation of
meon-H4583 →18 times
תַּנִּ֛יםjackals
tanimH8577 →28 times
שַׁמָּ֥הa horror
shamahH8047 →39 times
וּשְׁרֵקָ֖הand a hissing
usherekahH8322 →7 times
מֵאֵ֥יןfrom not
meeinH369 →789 times
יוֹשֵֽׁב׃inhabitant
yoshevH3427 →1079 times
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
Revelation 18:2And 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
- Jeremiah 51:8
Suddenly Babylon has fallen and been shattered. Wail for her; get her balm for her pain; perhaps she can be healed.
- 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 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.
- Jeremiah 51:8
Through
Jeremiah 18:16They have made their land a desolation, a perpetual object of scorn; all who pass by will be appalled and shake their heads.
it leads to
- Psalms 22:7
All who see me mock me; they sneer and shake their heads:
- Jeremiah 25:9
behold, I will summon all the families of the north, declares the LORD, and I will send for My servant Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, whom I will bring against this land, against its residents,…
- Psalms 22:7
Through
Jeremiah 25:9behold, I will summon all the families of the north, declares the LORD, and I will send for My servant Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, whom I will bring against this land, against its residents,…
it leads to
- Isaiah 13:3
I have commanded My sanctified ones; I have even summoned My warriors to execute My wrath and exult in My triumph.
- Jeremiah 18:16
They have made their land a desolation, a perpetual object of scorn; all who pass by will be appalled and shake their heads.
- Isaiah 13:3
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This page draws on 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.