Berean Standard Bible
Jeremiah 51:39-57
39While they are flushed with heat, I will serve them a feast, and I will make them drunk so that they may revel; then they will fall asleep forever and never wake up, declares the LORD.40I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with male goats.
41How Sheshach1 has been captured!The praise of all the earth has been seized.What a horror Babylon has becomeamong the nations!42The sea has come up over Babylon;she is covered in turbulent waves.43Her cities have become a desolation,a dry and arid land,a land where no one lives,where no son of man passes through.44I 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.
45Come out of her, My people!2Save your lives, each of you,from the fierce anger of the LORD.46Do not let your heart grow faint,and do not be afraidwhen the rumor is heard in the land;for a rumor will come one year—and then another the next year—of violence in the landand of ruler against ruler.
47Therefore, behold, the days are comingwhen I will punish the idols of Babylon.Her entire land will suffer shame,and all her slain will lie fallen within her.48Then heaven and earth and all that is in themwill shout for joy over Babylonbecause the destroyers from the northwill come against her,”declares the LORD.49“Babylon must fallon account of the slain of Israel,just as the slain of all the earthhave fallen because of Babylon.50You who have escaped the sword,depart and do not linger!Remember the LORD from far away,and let Jerusalem come to mind.”
51“We are ashamed because we have heard reproach;disgrace has covered our faces,because foreigners have enteredthe holy places of the LORD’s house.”
52“Therefore, behold, the days are coming,”declares the LORD,“when I will punish her idols,and throughout her land the wounded will groan.53Even if Babylon ascends to the heavensand fortifies her lofty stronghold,the destroyers I send will come against her,”declares the LORD.
54“The sound of a crycomes from Babylon,the sound of great destructionfrom the land of the Chaldeans!55For the LORD will destroy Babylon;He will silence her mighty voice.The waves will roar like great waters;the tumult of their voices will resound.
56For a destroyer is coming against her—against Babylon.Her warriors will be captured,and their bows will be broken,for the LORD is a God of retribution;He will repay in full.57I will make her princes and wise men drunk,along with her governors, officials, and warriors.Then they will fall asleep foreverand not wake up,”declares the King,whose name is the LORD of Hosts.
Notes
- 1. Jeremiah 51:41 Sheshach is a code name for Babylon. ↩
- 2. Jeremiah 51:45 See Revelation 18:4. ↩
Commentaries on Jeremiah 51
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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