Jeremiah 51:30 BSB — MannaFest

Jeremiah 51:30

The warriors of Babylon have stopped fighting; they sit in their strongholds. Their strength is exhausted; they have become like women. Babylon’s homes have been set ablaze, the bars of her gates are broken.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

The mighty men of Babylon have forborne to fight, they remain in their strongholds; their might hath failed; they are become as women: her dwelling-places are set on fire; her bars are broken.

KJV

The mighty men of Babylon have forborn to fight, they have remained in their holds: their might hath failed; they became as women: they have burned her dwellingplaces; her bars are broken.

⋯

Commentary

1 voice

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

The mighty men - have forborne to fight - They were panic-struck when they found the Medes and Persians within their walls, and at once saw that resistance was useless.

Voices on this verse

loading…

Original language & word study

14 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
חָדְלוּ֩	cha.de.Lu	they will cease	H2308 →
גִבּוֹרֵ֨י	gi.bo.Rei	[the] warriors of	H1368 →
בָבֶ֜ל	va.Vel	Babylon	H894 →
לְהִלָּחֵ֗ם	le.hi.la.Chem	to fight	H3898 →
יָֽשְׁבוּ֙	ya.she.Vu	they will remain	H3427 →
בַּמְּצָד֔וֹת	ba.me.tza.Dot	in the strongholds	H4679 →
נָשְׁתָ֥ה	na.she.Tah	it will be dry	H5405 →
גְבוּרָתָ֖ם	ge.vu.ra.Tam	strength their	H1369 →
הָי֣וּ	ha.Yu	they will become	H1961 →
לְנָשִׁ֑ים	le.na.Shim	<into> women	H802 →
הִצִּ֥יתוּ	hi.Tzi.tu	they will be set on fire	H3341 →
מִשְׁכְּנֹתֶ֖יהָ	mish.ke.no.Tei.ha	dwellings its	H4908 →
נִשְׁבְּר֥וּ	nish.be.Ru	they will be broken	H7665 →
בְרִיחֶֽיהָ׃	ve.ri.Chei.ha	bars its	H1280 →

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
Nahum 3:13
Look at your troops—they are like your women! The gates of your land are wide open to your enemies; fire consumes their bars.
leads to
- Jeremiah 50:37
  A sword is against her horses and chariots and against all the foreigners in her midst, and they will become like women. A sword is against her treasuries, and they will be plundered.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Isaiah 19:16
  In that day the Egyptians will be like women. They will tremble with fear beneath the uplifted hand of the LORD of Hosts, when He brandishes it against them.
Through
Lamentations 2:9
Her gates have sunk into the ground; He has destroyed and shattered their bars. Her king and her princes are exiled among the nations, the law is no more, and even her prophets find…
leads to
- Ezekiel 7:26
  Disaster upon disaster will come, and rumor after rumor. Then they will seek a vision from a prophet, but instruction from the priests will perish, as will counsel from the elders.
- Hosea 3:4
  For the Israelites must live many days without king or prince, without sacrifice or sacred pillar, and without ephod or idol.
- Micah 3:6–7
  Therefore night will come over you without visions, and darkness without divination. The sun will set on these prophets, and the daylight will turn black over them.
- Nehemiah 1:3
  And they told me, “The remnant who survived the exile are there in the province, in great trouble and disgrace. The wall of Jerusalem is broken down, and its gates are burned with fire.”
- 2 Chronicles 15:3
  For many years Israel has been without the true God, without a priest to instruct them, and without the law.
Through
Isaiah 19:16
In that day the Egyptians will be like women. They will tremble with fear beneath the uplifted hand of the LORD of Hosts, when He brandishes it against them.
leads to
- Nahum 3:13
  Look at your troops—they are like your women! The gates of your land are wide open to your enemies; fire consumes their bars.