Jeremiah 51:1 BSB — MannaFest

Jeremiah 51:1

This is what the LORD says: “Behold, I will stir up against Babylon and against the people of Leb-kamai the spirit of a destroyer.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

Thus saith Jehovah: Behold, I will raise up against Babylon, and against them that dwell in Leb-kamai, a destroying wind.

KJV

Thus saith the Lord; Behold, I will raise up against Babylon, and against them that dwell in the midst of them that rise up against me, a destroying wind;

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Commentary

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Albert Barnes

1798–1870

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

In the midst of them that rise up against me - Or, in Leb-kamai, the cipher for Kasdim, i. e., Chaldaea. This cipher was not necessarily invented by Jeremiah, or used for concealment. It was probaby first devised either for political purposes or for trade, and was in time largely employed in the correspondence between the exiles at Babylon and their friends at home. Thus, words in common use like Sheshach Jer 25:26 and Leb-kamai, would be known to everybody.

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Original language & word study

13 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
כֹּ֚ה	koh	thus	H3541 →
אָמַ֣ר	'a.Mar	he says	H559 →
יְהוָ֔ה	Yah.weh	Yahweh	H3068 →
הִנְנִי֙	hi.Ni	here I	H2005 →
מֵעִ֣יר	me.'Ir	[am] about to rouse	H5782 →
עַל־	'al-	on	H5921 →
בָּבֶ֔ל	ba.Vel	Babylon	H894 →
וְאֶל־	ve.'el-	and against	H413 →
יֹשְׁבֵ֖י	yo.she.Vei	[the] inhabitants	H3427 →
לֵ֣ב	lev	Leb-	H3820 →
קָמָ֑י	ka.Mai	-qamai	H6965 →
ר֖וּחַ	Ru.ach	a wind	H7307 →
מַשְׁחִֽית׃	mash.Chit	a destroyer	H7843 →

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
Amos 3:6
If a ram’s horn sounds in a city, do the people not tremble? If calamity comes to a city, has not the LORD caused it?
leads to
- Isaiah 45:7
  I form the light and create the darkness; I bring prosperity and create calamity. I, the LORD, do all these things.
- Isaiah 14:24–27
  The LORD of Hosts has sworn: “Surely, as I have planned, so will it be; as I have purposed, so will it stand.
- Zephaniah 1:16
  a day of horn blast and battle cry against the fortified cities, and against the high corner towers.
Through
Zechariah 2:8
For this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “After His Glory has sent Me against the nations that have plundered you—for whoever touches you touches the apple of His eye—
leads to
- Psalms 17:8
  Keep me as the apple of Your eye; hide me in the shadow of Your wings
- Deuteronomy 32:10
  He found him in a desert land, in a barren, howling wilderness; He surrounded him, He instructed him, He guarded him as the apple of His eye.
- John 15:21–23
  But they will treat you like this because of My name, since they do not know the One who sent Me.
- John 14:26
  But the Advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have told you.
- 2 Thessalonians 1:6
  After all, it is only right for God to repay with affliction those who afflict you,