Jeremiah 50:30
in Jeremiah 50Therefore, her young men will fall in the streets, and all her warriors will be silenced in that day,” declares the LORD.
BSB
The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
Therefore shall her young men fall in her streets, and all her men of war shall be brought to silence in that day, saith Jehovah.
KJV
Therefore shall her young men fall in the streets, and all her men of war shall be cut off in that day, saith the Lord.
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This verse in Jeremiah 50
Commentary
2 notes on this verseTherefore shall her young men fall in the streets,.... Or "surely" (f); it is the form of an oath, according to Jarchi Cyrus, when he took Babylon, ordered proclamation to be made that the inhabitants should keep within doors; and that whoever were found in the streets should be put to death (g), as doubtless many were: and all her men of war shall be cut off in that day, saith the Lord; as Belshazzar and his guards were (h); see Dan 5:30; compare with this Rev 19:18. (f) לכן "certe". (g) Cyropaedia, l. 7. c. 23. (h) Ibid.
This site's exposition
Listen to the fugitives and refugees from the land of Babylon
on Jeremiah 50:28-32
Refugees from Babylon announce “the vengeance for His temple,” so Babylon’s fall answers the burning of the temple in 52:13. The sentence is repayment: “Repay her according to her deeds; do to her as she has done.” Babylon will “stumble and fall with no one to pick him up.”
The words behind it
12 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| לָכֵ֛ן | lakhen | <to> therefore | H3651 → | 771 times |
| יִפְּל֥וּ | yipelu | they will fall | H5307 → | 435 times |
| בַחוּרֶ֖יהָ | vachureiha | young men its | H970 → | 44 times |
| בִּרְחֹבֹתֶ֑יהָ | birchoteiha | in open places its | H7339 → | 43 times |
| וְכָל־ | vekhol | and all | H3605 → | 5413 times |
| אַנְשֵׁ֨י | ʾanshei | [the] men of | H582 → | 566 times |
| מִלְחַמְתָּ֥הּ | milchamtah | war its | H4421 → | 320 times |
| יִדַּ֛מּוּ | yidamu | they will be silenced | H1826 → | 30 times |
| בַּיּ֥וֹם | baiyom | on the day | H3117 → | 2304 times |
| הַה֖וּא | hahu' | <the> that | H1931 → | 1879 times |
| נְאֻם־ | neum- | [the] utterance of | H5002 → | 376 times |
| יְהוָֽה׃ ס | yahweh | Yahweh | H3068 → | 6520 times |
לָכֵ֛ן<to> therefore
lakhenH3651 →771 times
יִפְּל֥וּthey will fall
yipeluH5307 →435 times
בַחוּרֶ֖יהָyoung men its
vachureihaH970 →44 times
בִּרְחֹבֹתֶ֑יהָin open places its
birchoteihaH7339 →43 times
וְכָל־and all
vekholH3605 →5413 times
אַנְשֵׁ֨י[the] men of
ʾansheiH582 →566 times
מִלְחַמְתָּ֥הּwar its
milchamtahH4421 →320 times
יִדַּ֛מּוּthey will be silenced
yidamuH1826 →30 times
בַּיּ֥וֹםon the day
baiyomH3117 →2304 times
הַה֖וּא<the> that
hahu'H1931 →1879 times
נְאֻם־[the] utterance of
neum-H5002 →376 times
יְהוָֽה׃ סYahweh
yahwehH3068 →6520 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
Jeremiah 18:21Therefore, 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…
it leads to
- Jeremiah 9:21
For death has climbed in through our windows; it has entered our fortresses to cut off the children from the streets, the young men from the town squares.
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- Jeremiah 9:21
Through
Jeremiah 48:15Moab has been destroyed and its towns have been invaded; the best of its young men have gone down in the slaughter, declares the King, whose name is the LORD of Hosts.
it leads to
- Jeremiah 46:18
As surely as I live, declares the King, whose name is the LORD of Hosts, there will come one who is like Tabor among the mountains and like Carmel by the sea.
- Jeremiah 50:27
Kill all her young bulls; let them go down to the slaughter. Woe to them, for their day has come—the time of their punishment.
- Jeremiah 51:57
I will make her princes and wise men drunk, along with her governors, officials, and warriors. Then they will fall asleep forever and not wake up,” declares the King, whose name is the LORD…
- Jeremiah 46:18
Through
Jeremiah 9:21For death has climbed in through our windows; it has entered our fortresses to cut off the children from the streets, the young men from the town squares.
it leads to
- Jeremiah 6:11
But I am full of the LORD’s wrath; I am tired of holding it back. “Pour it out on the children in the street, and on the young men gathered together. For both husband…
- Ezekiel 9:5–6
And as I listened, He said to the others, “Follow him through the city and start killing; do not show pity or spare anyone!
- 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…
- Jeremiah 15:7
I will scatter them with a winnowing fork at the gates of the land. I will bereave and destroy My people who have not turned from their ways.
- Jeremiah 6:11
About Jeremiah

This page draws on John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.
