Jeremiah 51:52 BSB — MannaFest

Jeremiah 51:52

“Therefore, behold, the days are coming,” declares the LORD, “when I will punish her idols, and throughout her land the wounded will groan.

BSB

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ASV

Wherefore, behold, the days come, saith Jehovah, that I will execute judgment upon her graven images; and through all her land the wounded shall groan.

KJV

Wherefore, behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will do judgment upon her graven images: and through all her land the wounded shall groan.

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Commentary

1 voice

John Gill

1697–1771

Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)

Wherefore, behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will do judgment upon her graven images,.... Destroy their gods, who have reproached the God of Israel, and profaned his sanctuaries; and for that reason; See Gill on Jer 51:47; it is an answer to the objection and complaint of the Jews, and is designed for their comfort and encouragement: and through all her land the wounded shall groan; because of their wounds and pain; and which their idols could not cure, ease, or prevent.

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The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

I . . . judgment upon . . . images--in opposition to the Babylonian taunt that Jehovah's religion was a thing of naught, since they had burned His temple (Jer 51:51): I will show that, though I have thus visited the Jews neglect of Me, yet those gods of Babylon cannot save themselves, much less their votaries, who shall "through all her land" lie and "groan" with wounds.

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Original language & word study

13 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
לָכֵ֞ן	la.Khen	<to> therefore	H3651 →
הִנֵּֽה־	hi.neh-	here!	H2009 →
יָמִ֤ים	ya.Mim	days	H3117 →
בָּאִים֙	ba.'Im	[are] coming	H935 →
נְאֻם־	ne.'um-	[the] utterance of	H5002 →
יְהוָ֔ה	Yah.weh	Yahweh	H3068 →
וּפָקַדְתִּ֖י	u.fa.kad.Ti	and I will visit [judgment]	H6485 →
עַל־	'al-	on	H5921 →
פְּסִילֶ֑יהָ	pe.si.Lei.ha	images its	H6456 →
וּבְכָל־	u.ve.Khol-	and in all	H3605 →
אַרְצָ֖הּ	'ar.Tzah	land its	H776 →
יֶאֱנֹ֥ק	ye.'e.Nok	he will groan	H602 →
חָלָֽל׃	cha.Lal	[the] fatally wounded	H2491 →

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
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.
leads to
- 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,…
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Isaiah 46:1–2
  Bel crouches; Nebo cowers. Their idols weigh down beasts and cattle. The images you carry are burdensome, a load to the weary animal.
Through
Ezekiel 30:24
I will strengthen the arms of Babylon’s king and place My sword in his hand, but I will break the arms of Pharaoh, who will groan before him like a mortally wounded man.
leads to
- Zephaniah 2:12
  “You too, O Cushites, will be slain by My sword.”
- Ezekiel 30:25
  I will strengthen the arms of Babylon’s king, but Pharaoh’s arms will fall limp. Then they will know that I am the LORD, when I place My sword in the hand of Babylon’s king,…
- Isaiah 45:5
  I am the LORD, and there is no other; there is no God but Me. I will equip you for battle, though you have not known Me,
Through
Jeremiah 50:38
A drought is upon her waters, and they will be dried up. For it is a land of graven images, and the people go mad over idols.
leads to
- Revelation 16:12
  And the sixth angel poured out his bowl on the great river Euphrates, and its water was dried up to prepare the way for the kings of the East.
- Isaiah 44:27
  who says to the depths of the sea, ‘Be dry, and I will dry up your currents,’
- 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.

About Jeremiah

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

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01Commentary

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02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

06About Jeremiah

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Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

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About Jeremiah