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Jeremiah 51:30
30Babylon’s warriors ceased fighting. They stay in their strongholds. Their might is exhausted. They have become like women. Her dwellings are set ablaze, her gate-bars are broken.
Jeremiah 51:30 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)The mighty men of Babylon have forborn to fight, they have remained in their holds: their might hath failed; they became as women: they have burned her dwellingplaces; her bars are broken.
- New International Version (NIV)Babylon’s warriors have stopped fighting; they remain in their strongholds. Their strength is exhausted; they have become weaklings. Her dwellings are set on fire; the bars of her gates are broken.
- English Standard Version (ESV)The warriors of Babylon have ceased fighting; they remain in their strongholds; their strength has failed; they have become women; her dwellings are on fire; her bars are broken.
- New King James Version (NKJV)The mighty men of Babylon have ceased fighting, They have remained in their strongholds; Their might has failed, They became like women; They have burned her dwelling places, The bars of her gate are broken.
Context of Jeremiah 51:30
28Consecrate the nations against her, the kings of the Medes, its governors and all its deputies, and all the land of his dominion. 29Now the land shakes and writhes, for Adonai’s plans against Babylon arise— to make the land of Babylon a desolation without inhabitant. Babylon’s warriors ceased fighting. They stay in their strongholds. Their might is exhausted. They have become like women. Her dwellings are set ablaze, her gate-bars are broken. 31One runner runs to meet another, and one messenger to meet another, to tell Babylon’s king that his city has been taken from end to end. 32The fords have also been seized and the marshes burned with fire, so the warriors are in panic.
Read all of Jeremiah 51Jeremiah 51:30 word by word
חָדְלוּ֩ גִבּוֹרֵ֨י בָבֶ֜ל לְהִלָּחֵ֗ם יָֽשְׁבוּ֙ בַּמְּצָד֔וֹת נָשְׁתָ֥ה גְבוּרָתָ֖ם הָי֣וּ לְנָשִׁ֑ים הִצִּ֥יתוּ מִשְׁכְּנֹתֶ֖יהָ נִשְׁבְּר֥וּ בְרִיחֶֽיהָ׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
- The mighty menגִּבּוֹרgibbôr gibbôr · mighty manH1368
- of Babylonבָּבֶ֫ל, בָּבֶלbâbel · BabylonH894
- have forbornחָדַלchâdal · to ceaseH2308
- to fightלָחַםlâcham · to fightH3898
- they have remainedיָשַׁבyâshab · to dwellH3427
- holdsמְצָדmetsad metsâd metsâdâh · strongholdH4679
- their mightגְּבוּרָהgebûrâh · mightH1369
- hath failedנָשַׁתnâshath · be dryH5405
- they became as womenאִשָּׁה'ishshâh nâshîym · womanH802
- they have burnedיָצַתyâtsath · to kindleH3341
- her dwellingplacesמִשְׁכָּןmishkân · tabernacleH4908
- her barsבְּרִיחַberîyach · barH1280
- are brokenשָׁבַרshâbar · to breakH7665
Cross-references for Jeremiah 51:30
- Jeremiah 51:32The fords have also been seized and the marshes burned with fire, so the warriors are in panic.
- Jeremiah 48:41The towns are captured, the strongholds seized. The hearts of Moab’s warriors in that day will be like the heart of a woman in labor.
- Jeremiah 50:36A sword on the diviners—fools! A sword on her warriors—shattered!
- Psalms 76:5You are brilliant, more majestic than nourishing mountains.
- Isaiah 13:7Therefore all hands will fall limp, and every man’s heart will melt.
- Isaiah 19:16In that day Egypt will be like women trembling with fear, because of the shaking hand of Adonai-Tzva’ot, which He is about to wave over it.
- Nahum 3:13See, your people within you are women. The gates of your land are wide open to your enemies— fire has devoured your gate-bars.
- Revelation 18:10standing far off because of the terror of her torment, saying: “Alas, alas, O great city— O Babylon, the mighty city! For in a single hour your judgment has come!”
- Psalms 107:16for He shattered bronze gates, and broke into pieces iron bars.
- Psalms 147:13For He strengthens the bars of your gates. He blesses your children within you.
- Isaiah 45:1Thus says Adonai to His anointed, Cyrus, whose right hand I have grasped, to subdue nations before him, to loose the belts of kings, to open doors before him so that gates may not be shut.
- Lamentations 2:9Her gates sank into the ground. Her bars He destroyed and shattered. Her king and princes are among nations. There is no more Torah. Also her prophets find no vision from Adonai.
- Amos 1:5I will break the Damascus gate-bar and cut off the inhabitant from the Valley of Aven, wielding Beth-eden’s scepter. So the people of Aram will go into exile to Kir. Adonai has said it.
Commentaries on Jeremiah 51:30
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 30The mighty men - have forborne to fight - They were panic-struck when they found the Medes and Persians within their walls, and at once saw that resistance was useless.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 30Have forborn to fight - Or, have ceased to fight: in despair when they saw that the conflict was hopeless. Holds - The word properly means an acropolis, and so any inaccessible place of refuge. They have burned - i. e., the enemy have burned. Bars - i. e., fortifications (compare Amos 1:5).Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 29-30The fall of Babylon occurred just as the Lord had planned. The Babylonian soldiers lost their will to fight, and the Persian invaders quickly entered the city.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 3030. forborne to fight--for the city was not taken by force of arms, but by stratagem, according to the counsel given to Cyrus by two eunuchs of Belshazzar who deserted. remained in ... holds--not daring to go forth to fight; many, with Nabonidus, withdrew to the fortified city Borsippa.Read the comment
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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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