Jeremiah 50:35 BSB — MannaFest

Jeremiah 50:35

A sword is against the Chaldeans, declares the LORD, against those who live in Babylon, and against her officials and wise men.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

A sword is upon the Chaldeans, saith Jehovah, and upon the inhabitants of Babylon, and upon her princes, and upon her wise men.

KJV

A sword is upon the Chaldeans, saith the Lord, and upon the inhabitants of Babylon, and upon her princes, and upon her wise men.

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Commentary

2 voices

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

Omit “is.” A summons comes from Yahweh, Israel’s Goel, to the sword to fall upon all the elements of Babylon’s greatness. The princes were her rulers at home and her generals in war. The wise men were those upon whose learning she so prided herself (Dan 1:4 note).

The record, by era

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

The repetition of "A sword" in the beginning of each verse, by the figure anaphora, heightens the effect; the reiterated judgment is universal; the same sad stroke of the sword is upon each and all connected with guilty Babylon. wise men-- (Isa 47:13). Babylon boasted that it was the peculiar seat of wisdom and wise men, especially in astronomy and astrology.

Voices on this verse

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Original language & word study

12 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
חֶ֥רֶב	Che.rev	a sword	H2719 →
עַל־	'al-	on	H5921 →
כַּשְׂדִּ֖ים	kas.Dim	[the] Chaldeans	H3778 →
נְאֻם־	ne.'um-	[the] utterance of	H5002 →
יְהוָ֑ה	Yah.weh	Yahweh	H3068 →
וְאֶל־	ve.'el-	and against	H413 →
יֹשְׁבֵ֣י	yo.she.Vei	[the] inhabitants of	H3427 →
בָבֶ֔ל	va.Vel	Babylon	H894 →
וְאֶל־	ve.'el-	and against	H413 →
שָׂרֶ֖יהָ	sa.Rei.ha	officials its	H8269 →
וְאֶל־	ve.'el-	and against	H413 →
חֲכָמֶֽיהָ׃	cha.kha.Mei.ha	wise [people] its	H2450 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Daniel 5:30
That very night Belshazzar king of the Chaldeans was slain,
leads to
- Jeremiah 51:39
  While they are flushed with heat, I will serve them a feast, and I will make them drunk so that they may revel; then they will fall asleep forever and never wake up, declares…
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Jeremiah 51:31
  One courier races to meet another, and messenger follows messenger, to announce to the king of Babylon that his city has been captured from end to end.
- 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…
Through
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…
leads to
- Jeremiah 25:27
  “Then you are to tell them that this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: ‘Drink, get drunk, and vomit. Fall down and never get up again, because of the…
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- 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 48:15
  Moab 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.
Through
Jeremiah 47:6
‘Alas, O sword of the LORD, how long until you rest? Return to your sheath; cease and be still!’
leads to
- Ezekiel 21:3–5
  and tell her that this is what the LORD says: ‘I am against you, and I will draw My sword from its sheath and cut off from you both the righteous and the wicked.
- Jeremiah 12:12
  Over all the barren heights in the wilderness the destroyers have come, for the sword of the LORD devours from one end of the earth to the other. No flesh has peace.

About Jeremiah

The Prophet Jeremiah — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain

Jeremiah: the study guide →Read chapter 50 →The featured study →

PlaceBabil Governorate (archaeological site)BabylonAncient Mesopotamian city and imperial capital; site of the Israelite exile and a recurring biblical symbol of worldly power.

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06About Jeremiah

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