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Jeremiah 51:43

in Jeremiah 51

Her cities have become a desolation, a dry and arid land, a land where no one lives, where no son of man passes through.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

Her cities are become a desolation, a dry land, and a desert, a land wherein no man dwelleth, neither doth any son of man pass thereby.

KJV

Her cities are a desolation, a dry land, and a wilderness, a land wherein no man dwelleth, neither doth any son of man pass thereby.

This verse in Jeremiah 51

Commentary

5 notes on this verse

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

Her cities--the cities, her dependencies. So, "Jerusalem and the cities thereof" (Jer 34:1). Or, the "cities" are the inner and outer cities, the two parts into which Babylon was divided by the Euphrates [GROTIUS].

This site's exposition

How Sheshach has been captured!

on Jeremiah 51:41-44

Sheshach is Babel written in the Atbash cipher, the alphabet reversed, as in 25:26. “The sea has come up over Babylon,” and her cities become “a land where no one lives.” The LORD will make Bel “spew out what he swallowed,” and “even the wall of Babylon will fall.”

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

It is a destruction that shall reach the gods of Babylon, the idols and images, and fall with a particular weight upon them. "In token that the whole land shall be confounded and all her slain shall fall and that throughout all the country the wounded shall groan, I will do judgment upon her graven images, "
Her cities are a desolation, a dry land, and a wilderness,....

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A wilderness - Or, a desert of sand. A land wherein - Rather, “a land - no man shall dwell in them (i. e., its cities), and no human being shall pass through them.”

The words behind it

17 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.

  • הָי֤וּthey will become

    hayuH1961 →3559 times

  • עָרֶ֙יהָ֙cities its

    ʾareihaH5892 →1090 times

  • לְשַׁמָּ֔ה<into> a waste

    leshamahH8047 →39 times

  • אֶ֖רֶץa land

    ʾeretzH776 →2504 times

  • צִיָּ֣הdry

    tziyahH6723 →16 times

  • וַעֲרָבָ֑הand a desert plain

    vaaravahH6160 →61 times

  • אֶ֗רֶץa land

    ʾeretzH776 →2504 times

  • לֹֽא־[where] not

    lo'-H3808 →5168 times

  • יֵשֵׁ֤בhe will dwell

    yeshevH3427 →1079 times

  • בָּהֵן֙in <the> them

    bahen

  • כָּל־any

    kol-H3605 →5413 times

  • אִ֔ישׁperson

    ʾishH376 →1663 times

  • וְלֹֽא־and not

    velo'-H3808 →5168 times

  • יַעֲבֹ֥רhe will pass

    yaavorH5674 →556 times

  • בָּהֵ֖ןin <the> them

    bahen

  • בֶּן־a child of

    ben-H1121 →4930 times

  • אָדָֽם׃humankind

    ʾadamH120 →551 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

    Isaiah 13:20

    She will never be inhabited or settled from generation to generation; no nomad will pitch his tent there, no shepherd will rest his flock there.

    it leads to

    • Jeremiah 50:45

      Therefore hear the plans that the LORD has drawn up against Babylon and the strategies He has devised against the land of the Chaldeans: Surely the little ones of the flock will be dragged…

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

    • Isaiah 14:23

      “I will make her a place for owls and for swamplands; I will sweep her away with the broom of destruction,” declares the LORD of Hosts.

  • Through

    Jeremiah 51:37

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

    it leads to

    • Revelation 18:21–23

      Then a mighty angel picked up a stone the size of a great millstone and cast it into the sea, saying: “With such violence the great city of Babylon will be cast down, never…

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

  • Through

    Jeremiah 2:6

    They did not ask, ‘Where is the LORD who brought us up from the land of Egypt, who led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and pits, a land of drought…

    it leads to

    • Deuteronomy 32:10

      He found him in a desert land, in a barren, howling wilderness; He surrounded him, He instructed him, He guarded him as the apple of His eye.

    • Deuteronomy 8:14–16

      then your heart will become proud, and you will forget the LORD your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.

    • Hosea 13:4

      Yet I am the LORD your God ever since the land of Egypt; you know no God but Me, for there is no Savior besides Me.

    • Isaiah 63:11–13

      Then His people remembered the days of old, the days of Moses. Where is He who brought them through the sea with the shepherds of His flock? Where is the One who set His…

  • Through

    Jeremiah 51:29

    The earth quakes and writhes because the LORD’s intentions against Babylon stand: to make the land of Babylon a desolation, without inhabitant.

    it leads to

    • Jeremiah 8:16

      The snorting of enemy horses is heard from Dan. At the sound of the neighing of mighty steeds, the whole land quakes. They come to devour the land and everything in it, the city…

Where this verse is studied

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 Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Carl Friedrich Keil, The Prophecies of Jeremiah; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.