Jeremiah 51:47 BSB — MannaFest

Jeremiah 51:47

Therefore, behold, the days are coming when I will punish the idols of Babylon. Her entire land will suffer shame, and all her slain will lie fallen within her.

BSB

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ASV

Therefore, behold, the days come, that I will execute judgment upon the graven images of Babylon; and her whole land shall be confounded; and all her slain shall fall in the midst of her.

KJV

Therefore, behold, the days come, that I will do judgment upon the graven images of Babylon: and her whole land shall be confounded, and all her slain shall fall in the midst of her.

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Commentary

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Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

GROTIUS translates, "her dancers," as in Jud 21:21, 23; 1Sa 18:6, the same Hebrew word is translated, alluding to the dancing revelry of the festival during which Cyrus took Babylon.

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Original language & word study

15 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
לָכֵן֙	la.Khen	<to> therefore	H3651 →
הִנֵּ֣ה	hi.Neh	here!	H2009 →
יָמִ֣ים	ya.Mim	days	H3117 →
בָּאִ֔ים	ba.'Im	[are] coming	H935 →
וּפָקַדְתִּי֙	u.fa.kad.Ti	and I will visit [judgment]	H6485 →
עַל־	'al-	on	H5921 →
פְּסִילֵ֣י	pe.si.Lei	[the] images of	H6456 →
בָבֶ֔ל	va.Vel	Babylon	H894 →
וְכָל־	ve.khol	and all	H3605 →
אַרְצָ֖הּ	'ar.Tzah	land its	H776 →
תֵּב֑וֹשׁ	te.Vo.osh	it will be ashamed	H954 →
וְכָל־	ve.khol	and all	H3605 →
חֲלָלֶ֖יהָ	cha.la.Lei.ha	slain [ones] its	H2491 →
יִפְּל֥וּ	yi.pe.Lu	they will fall	H5307 →
בְתוֹכָֽהּ׃	ve.to.Khah	in [the] midst of it	H8432 →

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
Isaiah 21:9
Look, here come the riders, horsemen in pairs.” And one answered, saying: “Fallen, fallen is Babylon! All the images of her gods lie shattered on the ground!”
leads to
- Revelation 18:2
  And he cried out in a mighty voice: “Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great! She has become a lair for demons and a haunt for every unclean spirit, every unclean bird, and every detestable…
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Revelation 14:8
  Then a second angel followed, saying, “Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great, who has made all the nations drink the wine of the passion of her immorality.”
- Jeremiah 51:8
  Suddenly Babylon has fallen and been shattered. Wail for her; get her balm for her pain; perhaps she can be healed.
Through
Jeremiah 50:2
“Announce and declare to the nations; lift up a banner and proclaim it; hold nothing back when you say, ‘Babylon is captured; Bel is put to shame; Marduk is shattered, her images are disgraced,…
leads to
- Jeremiah 51:44
  I will punish Bel in Babylon. I will make him spew out what he swallowed. The nations will no longer stream to him; even the wall of Babylon will fall.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Isaiah 46:1
  Bel crouches; Nebo cowers. Their idols weigh down beasts and cattle. The images you carry are burdensome, a load to the weary animal.
- Isaiah 21:9
  Look, here come the riders, horsemen in pairs.” And one answered, saying: “Fallen, fallen is Babylon! All the images of her gods lie shattered on the ground!”
Through
Jeremiah 11:22
So this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “I will punish them. Their young men will die by the sword, their sons and daughters by famine.
leads to
- Jeremiah 18:21
  Therefore, hand their children over to famine; pour out the power of the sword upon them. Let their wives become childless and widowed; let their husbands be slain by disease, their young men struck…
- 2 Chronicles 36:17
  So He brought up against them the king of the Chaldeans, who put their young men to the sword in the sanctuary, sparing neither young men nor young women, neither elderly nor infirm. God…