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Jeremiah 50:46

in Jeremiah 50

At the sound of Babylon’s capture the earth will quake; a cry will be heard among the nations.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

At the noise of the taking of Babylon the earth trembleth, and the cry is heard among the nations.

KJV

At the noise of the taking of Babylon the earth is moved, and the cry is heard among the nations.

This verse in Jeremiah 50

Commentary

5 notes on this verse
At the noise of the taking of Babylon the earth is moved,.... It being so sudden and unexpected, and so very astonishing: and the cry is heard among the nations; that Babylon is fallen; which, as applied to mystical Babylon, will be matter of joy to some, and of lamentation to others; see Rev 14:8.

This site's exposition

Behold, an army is coming from the north

on Jeremiah 50:41-46

Verses 41 to 43 repeat almost word for word the invasion of 6:22-24. The words once aimed at the Daughter of Zion now fall on “O Daughter of Babylon.” The king of Babylon hears the report, “and his hands hang limp,” as the people of Jerusalem did in 6:24.

The record, by era

The Nineteenth Century3 voices

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

At the noise of the taking of Babylon - See the note on the parallel place, Jer 49:21 (note). In the forty-ninth chapter, these words are spoken of Nebuchadnezzar; here, of Cyrus. The taking of Babylon was a wonder to all the surrounding nations. It was thought to be impregnable.

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

Repeated mainly from Jer 49:19-21. The identity of God's principle in His dealing with Edom, and in that with Babylon, is implied by the similarity of language as to both.

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

proposed

cry . . . among the nations--In Edom's case it is, "at the cry the noise thereof was heard in the Red Sea." The change implies the wider extent to which the crash of Babylon's downfall shall be heard.

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The words behind it

8 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.

  • מִקּוֹל֙from [the] sound

    mikolH6963 →506 times

  • נִתְפְּשָׂ֣הit has been captured

    nitpesahH8610 →65 times

  • בָבֶ֔לBabylon

    vavelH894 →262 times

  • נִרְעֲשָׁ֖הit will quake

    nirashahH7493 →30 times

  • הָאָ֑רֶץthe earth

    haaretzH776 →2504 times

  • וּזְעָקָ֖הand a cry of distress

    uzeakahH2201 →18 times

  • בַּגּוֹיִ֥םamong the nations

    bagoyimH1471 →561 times

  • נִשְׁמָֽע׃ סit will be heard

    nishma'H8085 →1159 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

    Ezekiel 31:16

    I made the nations quake at the sound of its downfall, when I cast it down to Sheol with those who descend to the Pit. Then all the trees of Eden, the choicest and…

    it leads to

    • Ezekiel 26:15

      This is what the Lord GOD says to Tyre: ‘Will not the coastlands quake at the sound of your downfall, when the wounded groan at the slaughter in your midst?

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

    • Isaiah 14:15

      But you will be brought down to Sheol, to the lowest depths of the Pit.

    • Isaiah 14:8

      Even the cypresses and cedars of Lebanon exult over you: “Since you have been laid low, no woodcutter comes against us.”

    • Ezekiel 31:9

      I made it beautiful with its many branches, the envy of all the trees of Eden, which were in the garden of God.’

    • 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.

  • Through

    Ezekiel 26:18

    Now the coastlands tremble on the day of your downfall; the islands in the sea are dismayed by your demise.”’

    it leads to

    • Isaiah 23:5–7

      When the report reaches Egypt, they will writhe in agony over the news of Tyre.

  • Through

    Jeremiah 49:21

    At the sound of their fall the earth will quake; their cry will resound to the Red Sea.

    it leads to

    • Ezekiel 21:16

      Slash to the right; set your blade to the left—wherever your blade is directed.

    • Revelation 18:10

      In fear of her torment, they will stand at a distance and cry out: “Woe, woe to the great city, the mighty city of Babylon! For in a single hour your judgment has come.”

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 Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; 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 (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.