Jeremiah 50:26

Jeremiah 50:26 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)Come against her from the utmost border, open her storehouses: cast her up as heaps, and destroy her utterly: let nothing of her be left.
• New International Version (NIV)Come against her from afar. Break open her granaries; pile her up like heaps of grain. Completely destroy her and leave her no remnant.
• English Standard Version (ESV)Come against her from every quarter; open her granaries; pile her up like heaps of grain, and devote her to destruction; let nothing be left of her.
• New King James Version (NKJV)Come against her from the farthest border; Open her storehouses; Cast her up as heaps of ruins, And destroy her utterly; Let nothing of her be left.

Context of Jeremiah 50:26

24Babylon, I put a trap to catch you, and you did not know about it. Now I have caught you in my trap, because you fought against me. 25I have taken out my weapons from the place where I had stored them. I will use those weapons to punish the people of Babylonia, because I am very angry with them. I am the Lord God Almighty. I have work to do in the land of Babylonia. Now come from far away to attack Babylonia! Break open the store rooms and take out the grain. Knock down their buildings and break them into pieces. Completely destroy everything. Do not let anything remain! 27Kill all their strong soldiers. Let them go to their place of death! Terrible trouble has come to the people of Babylon. The time of their punishment has arrived!’ 28Listen! People have run away from the war in Babylon. Now they are arriving in Jerusalem. They will tell the news in Zion about how the Lord is punishing Babylon. He is punishing the people of Babylon because they destroyed his temple.

Jeremiah 50:26 word by word

בֹּֽאוּ־לָ֤הּ מִקֵּץ֙ פִּתְח֣וּ מַאֲבֻסֶ֔יהָ סָלּ֥וּהָ כְמוֹ־עֲרֵמִ֖ים וְהַחֲרִימ֑וּהָ אַל־תְּהִי־לָ֖הּ שְׁאֵרִֽית׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• Comeבּוֹאbô' · to come (in): comeH935
• against her from the utmost borderקֵץqêts · endH7093
• openפָּתַחpâthach · to openH6605
• her storehousesמַאֲבוּסma'ăbûs · granaryH3965
• cast her upסָלַלsâlal · to buildH5549
• as heapsעֲרֵמָה‛ârêm ‛ărêmâh · heapH6194
• and destroy her utterlyחָרַםchâram · to devote/destroyH2763
• let nothing of her be leftשְׁאֵרִיתshe'êrîyth · remnantH7611

Cross-references for Jeremiah 50:26

• Jeremiah 50:41‘Look! An army is coming from the north. A great nation and many kings are preparing to attack. They are coming from a place that is far away.
• Jeremiah 51:27‘Call the nations to come and fight a battle against Babylonia. Wave a flag and make a noise with trumpets, so that these kingdoms prepare their armies to attack: Ararat, Minni and Ashkenaz. Choose a captain to lead them into battle. Send an army of soldiers on horses to attack, like a large crowd of locusts.
• Isaiah 5:26The Lord will send a message to foreign nations to come and attack. He calls to nations that are far away, and now they are already coming! Their armies march quickly to Jerusalem.
• Jeremiah 50:10The people of Babylonia will lose all their things. Enemy soldiers will take everything that they want for themselves.’ That is what the Lord says.
• Jeremiah 51:44I will punish Bel, the god of Babylon. I will cause him to give back everything that he has taken. Nations will never go to worship him again. Yes, the walls of Babylon will fall down!’
• Isaiah 45:3I will take valuable things that people have stored in secret places, and I will give them to you. Then you will know that I am the Lord, Israel's God. I am the one who calls you by your name.
• Isaiah 10:6I send Assyria's army against a nation that does not serve God. I command them to attack the people with whom I am angry. I tell them to take that nation's valuable things for themselves. I tell them to walk all over them, as if they were walking on dirt in the streets.
• Isaiah 25:10The Lord's power will bless this mountain. He will knock down Moab's people and he will walk all over them. He will walk on them, as if they are straw in a heap of dung.
• Isaiah 63:3He says, ‘I have walked on the grapes alone. Nobody from the nations came to help me. I walked on them because I was angry. I squeezed them to pieces in my anger. Their blood splashed on my clothes, and it made all my clothes dirty.
• Micah 7:10‘Why does the Lord your God not help you?’ my enemies say to me. They will see what God does for me. Then they will be very ashamed. And I will see the bad things that happen to them. Soon other people will crush them and beat them. Then they will be like wet ground in the streets under people's feet.
• Revelation 14:19So the angel moved his sharp knife over the earth. He cut off the grapes which grew in the earth's vineyard. He threw the grapes into the winepress where God stamps on the grapes because he is very angry.
• Revelation 19:15A sharp sword was coming out of his mouth. He will use this sword to attack the people of all the nations of the world. Then he will rule them with strong authority. He will punish them like someone who stamps on grapes in a winepress. That will show God's great anger against them. He is the Almighty God.
• Jeremiah 50:13Nobody will live in Babylon, because I, the Lord, am very angry with it. It will be only a heap of stones. Everyone who goes that way will see that it is a disgusting place. They will insult Babylon, because of the terrible troubles that have happened to it.’
• Jeremiah 51:25The Lord says, ‘Listen to me, Babylon! I am your enemy! You are like a strong mountain that destroys the whole earth. I will punish you with all my strength. I will push you down from your high place. I will make you a heap of ashes.
• Isaiah 14:23The Lord Almighty says, ‘I will make Babylon a place where wild animals live. There will be pools of bad water. I will sweep everything away, like someone who sweeps dirt away with a brush.’
• Revelation 18:21Then a powerful angel picked up a very big, heavy stone. He threw it into the sea. He said, ‘God will throw you down, Babylon! You are a great city, but God will throw you down like this stone. Nobody will ever see you again!

Commentaries on Jeremiah 50:26

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 26Open her store-houses - At the time that Cyrus took the city, it was full of provisions and treasures of all kinds; the walls had suffered no injury; and when the inhabitants heard that the enemy was within, they thought they must have arisen out of the earth in the center of the city!Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 26Against her - Or, to her, in order to plunder her. Her storehouses (literally granaries) are to burst open, the grain piled up in heaps, and finally they are to devote her to destruction, i. e., to burn her wealth with fire. From the utmost border - (Or, “from the first of you even to the last”). Let nothing of her be left - literally, let her have no remnant. Contrast Jeremiah 5:10.Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 21-32Verses 21-32 The forces are mustered and empowered to destroy Babylon. Let them do what God demands, and they shall bring to pass what he threatens. The pride of men's hearts sets God against them, and ripens them apace for ruin. Babylon's pride must be her ruin; she has been proud against the Holy One of Israel; who can keep those up whom God will throw down?Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 2626. from the utmost border--namely, of the earth. Or, from all sides [Ludovicus De Dieu]. storehouses--or, "her houses filled with men and goods" [Michaelis]. When Cyrus took it, the provisions found there were enough to have lasted for many years. as heaps--make of the once glorious city heaps of ruins. Vast mounds of rubbish now mark the site of ancient Babylon. "Tread her as heaps of corn which are wont to be trodden down in the threshing-floor"…Read the comment

In the dictionaries

• Desolation
• Isaiah
• Jeremiah (2)
• Storehouses

Commentaries on Jeremiah 50

• 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