Jeremiah 50:24

Jeremiah 50:24 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)I have laid a snare for thee, and thou art also taken, O Babylon, and thou wast not aware: thou art found, and also caught, because thou hast striven against the Lord.
• New International Version (NIV)I set a trap for you, Babylon, and you were caught before you knew it; you were found and captured because you opposed the Lord.
• English Standard Version (ESV)I set a snare for you and you were taken, O Babylon, and you did not know it; you were found and caught, because you opposed the Lord.
• New King James Version (NKJV)I have laid a snare for you; You have indeed been trapped, O Babylon, And you were not aware; You have been found and also caught, Because you have contended against the Lord.

Context of Jeremiah 50:24

22The noise of battle is in the land and great crashing. 23How the hammer of the whole earth has been cut down and smashed! How Babylon has become a horror among the nations! I set a snare for you, so you were caught, O Babylon, when you were unaware. You were found and also caught, because you challenged Adonai. 25Adonai has opened His armory and brought out the weapons of His indignation. For it is a work that my Lord Adonai-Tzva’ot has to do in the land of Chaldea. 26Come against her from afar, open her granaries, pile her up like heaps and utterly destroy her! Let nothing be left to her.

Jeremiah 50:24 word by word

יָקֹ֨שְׁתִּי לָ֤ךְ וְגַם־נִלְכַּדְתְּ֙ בָּבֶ֔ל וְאַ֖תְּ לֹ֣א יָדָ֑עַתְּ נִמְצֵאת֙ וְגַם־נִתְפַּ֔שְׂתְּ כִּ֥י בַֽיהוָ֖ה הִתְגָּרִֽית׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• I have laid a snareיָקֹשׁyâqôsh · to snareH3369
• for thee, and thou art also takenלָכַדlâkad · to captureH3920
• O Babylonבָּבֶ֫ל, בָּבֶלbâbel · BabylonH894
• and thou wast not awareיָדַעyâda‛ · to knowH3045
• thou art foundמָצָאmâtsâ' · to findH4672
• and also caughtתָּפַשׂtâphaώ · to captureH8610
• because thou hast strivenגָּרָהgârâh · to stir upH1624
• against the Lordיְהֹוָהyehôvâh · LORDH3068

Cross-references for Jeremiah 50:24

• Ecclesiastes 9:12Moreover, no man knows his time: like fish caught in a fatal net or birds caught in a snare, so people are trapped in a time of calamity, that falls upon them suddenly.
• Jeremiah 51:8Suddenly Babylon is fallen! Shattered! Howl over her! Bring balm for her wound. Perhaps she may be healed?
• Isaiah 21:3Therefore my body is filled with pain. Pangs have taken hold of me like the pangs of a woman in labor. I am bewildered by what I hear, terrified by what I see.
• Daniel 5:30On that very night King Belshazzar of the Chaldeans was slain.
• Revelation 18:7As she has exalted herself and indulged herself in luxury, so give her the same measure of torment and grief! For in her heart she says, ‘I sit as a queen— I am no widow; I shall never see grief.’
• Exodus 10:3So Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and said to him, “This is what Adonai, the God of the Hebrews, says: How long would you refuse to humble yourself before Me? Let My people go, so they may serve Me.
• Job 9:4He is wise in heart and mighty in strength. Who has resisted Him and come out whole?
• Job 40:2“Will the one who contends with Shaddai correct him? Let him who accuses God answer!”
• Isaiah 13:11I will punish the world for evil, and the wicked for their iniquity. I will put an end to the arrogance of the proud, and abase the insolence of tyrants.
• Isaiah 45:9Oy , to one who quarrels with his Maker, like a pot among the pots of the earth! Shall the clay say to the potter, “What have you made?” Or does your work say, “It has no handles”?
• 2 Thessalonians 2:4He opposes and exalts himself above every so-called god or object of worship, so that he sits in the Temple of God, proclaiming himself that he is God.

Commentaries on Jeremiah 50:24

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 24I have laid a snare for thee - It was not by storm that Cyrus took the city. The Euphrates ran through it; he dug a channel for the river in another direction, to divert its stream; he waited for that time in which the inhabitants had delivered themselves up to debauchery: in the dead of the night he turned off the stream, and he and his army entered by the old channel, now void of its waters. This was the snare of which the prophet here speaks. See…Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 24I have laid a snare for thee - Babylon, the impregnable, was taken (according to Herodotus) by Cyrus by stratagem. Having diverted the waters of the Euphrates, he entered the city by the river channel: but see Daniel 5:1 note. And thou wast not aware - Better literally, and thou didst not know it.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. 2424. I--Thou hast to do with God, not merely with men. taken ... not aware--Herodotus relates that one half of the city was taken before those in the other half were "aware" of it. Cyrus turned the waters of the Euphrates where it was defended into a different channel, and so entered the city by the dried-up channel at night, by the upper and lower gates (Da 5:30, 31).Read the comment

Topics related to Jeremiah 50:24

• Infidelity

In the dictionaries

• Babylon
• Babylon, Babylonia, Babylonian
• Desolation
• Isaiah
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• Snare

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