Jeremiah 51:43 BSB — MannaFest

Jeremiah 51:43

Her cities have become a desolation, a dry and arid land, a land where no one lives, where no son of man passes through.

BSB

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ASV

Her cities are become a desolation, a dry land, and a desert, a land wherein no man dwelleth, neither doth any son of man pass thereby.

KJV

Her cities are a desolation, a dry land, and a wilderness, a land wherein no man dwelleth, neither doth any son of man pass thereby.

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Commentary

1 voice

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

Her cities--the cities, her dependencies. So, "Jerusalem and the cities thereof" (Jer 34:1). Or, the "cities" are the inner and outer cities, the two parts into which Babylon was divided by the Euphrates [GROTIUS].

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

It is a destruction that shall reach the gods of Babylon, the idols and images, and fall with a particular weight upon them. "In token that the whole land shall be confounded and all her slain shall fall and that throughout all the country the wounded shall groan, I will do judgment upon her graven images, "

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Original language & word study

17 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
הָי֤וּ	ha.Yu	they will become	H1961 →
עָרֶ֙יהָ֙	'a.Rei.ha	cities its	H5892 →
לְשַׁמָּ֔ה	le.sha.Mah	<into> a waste	H8047 →
אֶ֖רֶץ	'E.retz	a land	H776 →
צִיָּ֣ה	tzi.Yah	dry	H6723 →
וַעֲרָבָ֑ה	va.'a.ra.Vah	and a desert plain	H6160 →
אֶ֗רֶץ	'E.retz	a land	H776 →
לֹֽא־	lo'-	[where] not	H3808 →
יֵשֵׁ֤ב	ye.Shev	he will dwell	H3427 →
בָּהֵן֙	ba.Hen	in <the> them
כָּל־	kol-	any	H3605 →
אִ֔ישׁ	'Ish	person	H376 →
וְלֹֽא־	ve.lo'-	and not	H3808 →
יַעֲבֹ֥ר	ya.'a.Vor	he will pass	H5674 →
בָּהֵ֖ן	ba.Hen	in <the> them
בֶּן־	ben-	a child of	H1121 →
אָדָֽם׃	'a.Dam	humankind	H120 →

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

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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
Isaiah 13:20
She will never be inhabited or settled from generation to generation; no nomad will pitch his tent there, no shepherd will rest his flock there.
leads to
- Jeremiah 50:45
  Therefore hear the plans that the LORD has drawn up against Babylon and the strategies He has devised against the land of the Chaldeans: Surely the little ones of the flock will be dragged…
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Isaiah 14:23
  “I will make her a place for owls and for swamplands; I will sweep her away with the broom of destruction,” declares the LORD of Hosts.
Through
Jeremiah 51:37
Babylon will become a heap of rubble, a haunt for jackals, an object of horror and scorn, without inhabitant.
leads to
- Revelation 18:21–23
  Then a mighty angel picked up a stone the size of a great millstone and cast it into the sea, saying: “With such violence the great city of Babylon will be cast down, never…
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
Through
Jeremiah 2:6
They did not ask, ‘Where is the LORD who brought us up from the land of Egypt, who led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and pits, a land of drought…
leads to
- 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.
- Deuteronomy 8:14–16
  then your heart will become proud, and you will forget the LORD your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.
- Hosea 13:4
  Yet I am the LORD your God ever since the land of Egypt; you know no God but Me, for there is no Savior besides Me.
- Isaiah 63:11–13
  Then His people remembered the days of old, the days of Moses. Where is He who brought them through the sea with the shepherds of His flock? Where is the One who set His…
Through
Jeremiah 51:29
The earth quakes and writhes because the LORD’s intentions against Babylon stand: to make the land of Babylon a desolation, without inhabitant.
leads to
- Jeremiah 8:16
  The snorting of enemy horses is heard from Dan. At the sound of the neighing of mighty steeds, the whole land quakes. They come to devour the land and everything in it, the city…

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

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01Commentary

The record, by era

Voices on this verse

02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

06About Jeremiah

The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

About Jeremiah