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Jeremiah 50:14

in Jeremiah 50

Line up in formation around Babylon, all you who draw the bow! Shoot at her! Spare no arrows! For she has sinned against the LORD.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

Set yourselves in array against Babylon round about, all ye that bend the bow; shoot at her, spare no arrows: for she hath sinned against Jehovah.

KJV

Put yourselves in array against Babylon round about: all ye that bend the bow, shoot at her, spare no arrows: for she hath sinned against the Lord.

This verse in Jeremiah 50

Commentary

4 notes on this verse

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

Summons to the Median army to attack Babylon. against the Lord--By oppressing His people, their cause is His cause. Also by profaning His sacred vessels (Da 5:2).

This site's exposition

Chaldea will be plundered

on Jeremiah 50:10-20

Verse 17 sums up: “The first to devour him was the king of Assyria; the last to crush his bones was Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon.” Verse 20 turns to pardon, “for I will forgive the remnant I preserve,” the forgiveness promised in the new covenant of 31:34.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

Note, It is sin that makes men a mark for the arrows of God's judgments. An abundance of idolatry and immorality was to be found in Babylon, yet those are not mentioned as the reason of God's displeasure against them, but the injuries they had done to the people of God, from a principle of enmity to them as his people.
Put yourselves in array against Babylon round about,....

The words behind it

16 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.

  • עִרְכ֨וּline up

    ʾirkhuH6186 →74 times

  • עַל־on

    ʾal-H5921 →5755 times

  • בָּבֶ֤ל׀Babylon

    bavelH894 →262 times

  • סָבִיב֙all around

    savivH5439 →336 times

  • כָּל־O all

    kol-H3605 →5413 times

  • דֹּ֣רְכֵי[those who] bend

    dorekheiH1869 →62 times

  • קֶ֔שֶׁת<of> a bow

    keshetH7198 →76 times

  • יְד֣וּshoot

    yeduH3034 →

  • אֵלֶ֔יהָagainst it

    ʾeleihaH413 →5510 times

  • אַֽל־may not

    ʾal-H408 →724 times

  • תַּחְמְל֖וּyou spare

    tachmeluH2550 →41 times

  • אֶל־<to>

    ʾel-H413 →5510 times

  • חֵ֑ץan arrow

    chetzH2671 →53 times

  • כִּ֥יfor

    kiH3588 →4482 times

  • לַֽיהוָ֖הto Yahweh

    layahwehH3068 →6520 times

  • חָטָֽאָה׃it has sinned

    chataahH2398 →238 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

    Habakkuk 2:17

    For your violence against Lebanon will overwhelm you, and the destruction of animals will terrify you, because of your bloodshed against men and your violence against the land, the city, and all their dwellers.

    it leads to

    • Habakkuk 2:8

      Because you have plundered many nations, the remnant of the people will plunder you—because of your bloodshed against man and your violence against the land, the city, and all their dwellers.

    • Jeremiah 50:28

      Listen to the fugitives and refugees from the land of Babylon, declaring in Zion the vengeance of the LORD our God, the vengeance for His temple.

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

    • Psalms 55:23

      But You, O God, will bring them down to the Pit of destruction; men of bloodshed and deceit will not live out half their days. But I will trust in You.

  • Through

    Habakkuk 2:8

    Because you have plundered many nations, the remnant of the people will plunder you—because of your bloodshed against man and your violence against the land, the city, and all their dwellers.

    it leads to

    • Isaiah 33:1

      Woe to you, O destroyer never destroyed, O traitor never betrayed! When you have finished destroying, you will be destroyed. When you have finished betraying, you will be betrayed.

  • Through

    Jeremiah 50:29

    Summon the archers against Babylon, all who string the bow. Encamp all around her; let no one escape. Repay her according to her deeds; do to her as she has done. For she has…

    it leads to

    • Isaiah 47:10

      You were secure in your wickedness; you said, ‘No one sees me.’ Your wisdom and knowledge led you astray; you told yourself, ‘I am, and there is none besides me.’

    • Jeremiah 51:56

      For a destroyer is coming against her—against Babylon. Her warriors will be captured, and their bows will be broken, for the LORD is a God of retribution; He will repay in full.

    • Exodus 10:3

      So Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and told him, “This is what the LORD, the God of the Hebrews, says: ‘How long will you refuse to humble yourself before Me? Let My people…

  • Through

    1 Samuel 17:20

    So David got up early in the morning, left the flock with a keeper, loaded up, and set out as Jesse had instructed him. He reached the camp as the army was marching out…

    it leads to

    • 1 Samuel 26:5

      Then David set out and went to the place where Saul had camped. He saw the place where Saul and Abner son of Ner, the general of his army, had lain down. Saul was…

About Jeremiah

This page draws on 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.