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Jeremiah 51:47

in Jeremiah 51

Therefore, behold, the days are coming when I will punish the idols of Babylon. Her entire land will suffer shame, and all her slain will lie fallen within her.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

Therefore, behold, the days come, that I will execute judgment upon the graven images of Babylon; and her whole land shall be confounded; and all her slain shall fall in the midst of her.

KJV

Therefore, behold, the days come, that I will do judgment upon the graven images of Babylon: and her whole land shall be confounded, and all her slain shall fall in the midst of her.

This verse in Jeremiah 51

Commentary

4 notes on this verse

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

GROTIUS translates, "her dancers," as in Jud 21:21, 23; 1Sa 18:6, the same Hebrew word is translated, alluding to the dancing revelry of the festival during which Cyrus took Babylon.

This site's exposition

Come out of her, My people!

on Jeremiah 51:45-48

The call to come out of Babylon repeats 50:8 and 51:6. The exiles are told not to lose heart at rumor, “of violence in the land and of ruler against ruler.” When the LORD punishes Babylon’s idols, “heaven and earth and all that is in them will shout for joy.”

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

Therefore, behold, the days come that I will do judgment on the graven images of Babylon,....

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Therefore - The exiles were to note these things as signs of the approach of God’s visitation. Confounded - Or, ashamed.

The words behind it

15 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.

  • לָכֵן֙<to> therefore

    lakhenH3651 →771 times

  • הִנֵּ֣הhere!

    hinehH2009 →843 times

  • יָמִ֣יםdays

    yamimH3117 →2304 times

  • בָּאִ֔ים[are] coming

    baimH935 →2568 times

  • וּפָקַדְתִּי֙and I will visit [judgment]

    ufakadtiH6485 →303 times

  • עַל־on

    ʾal-H5921 →5755 times

  • פְּסִילֵ֣י[the] images of

    pesileiH6456 →23 times

  • בָבֶ֔לBabylon

    vavelH894 →262 times

  • וְכָל־and all

    vekholH3605 →5413 times

  • אַרְצָ֖הּland its

    ʾartzahH776 →2504 times

  • תֵּב֑וֹשׁit will be ashamed

    tevooshH954 →127 times

  • וְכָל־and all

    vekholH3605 →5413 times

  • חֲלָלֶ֖יהָslain [ones] its

    chalaleihaH2491 →94 times

  • יִפְּל֥וּthey will fall

    yipeluH5307 →435 times

  • בְתוֹכָֽהּ׃in [the] midst of it

    vetokhahH8432 →418 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 21:9

    Look, here come the riders, horsemen in pairs.” And one answered, saying: “Fallen, fallen is Babylon! All the images of her gods lie shattered on the ground!”

    it leads to

    • 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…

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

    • 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.

  • Through

    Jeremiah 50:2

    “Announce and declare to the nations; lift up a banner and proclaim it; hold nothing back when you say, ‘Babylon is captured; Bel is put to shame; Marduk is shattered, her images are disgraced,…

    it leads to

    • Jeremiah 51:44

      I will punish Bel in Babylon. I will make him spew out what he swallowed. The nations will no longer stream to him; even the wall of Babylon will fall.

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

    • Isaiah 46:1

      Bel crouches; Nebo cowers. Their idols weigh down beasts and cattle. The images you carry are burdensome, a load to the weary animal.

    • Isaiah 21:9

      Look, here come the riders, horsemen in pairs.” And one answered, saying: “Fallen, fallen is Babylon! All the images of her gods lie shattered on the ground!”

  • Through

    Jeremiah 11:22

    So this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “I will punish them. Their young men will die by the sword, their sons and daughters by famine.

    it leads to

    • Jeremiah 18:21

      Therefore, hand their children over to famine; pour out the power of the sword upon them. Let their wives become childless and widowed; let their husbands be slain by disease, their young men struck…

    • 2 Chronicles 36:17

      So He brought up against them the king of the Chaldeans, who put their young men to the sword in the sanctuary, sparing neither young men nor young women, neither elderly nor infirm. God…

Where this verse is studied

About Jeremiah

This page draws on 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 (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.