Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 50:11
As the heifer at grass - Ye were wanton in the desolations ye brought upon Judea. read more
Jeremiah 50:11-20 Niv1984
Adam Clarke
Adam Clarke
Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 50:12
Your mother - Speaking to the Chaldeans: Babylon, the metropolis, or mother city, shall be a wilderness, a dry land, a desert, neither fit for man nor beast. read more
Adam Clarke
Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 50:15
Shout against her round about - Encompass her with lines and with troops; let none go in with relief, none come out to escape from her ruin. read more
Adam Clarke
Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 50:16
Cut off the sower - Destroy the gardens and the fields, that there may be neither fruits nor tillage. read more
Adam Clarke
Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 50:17
Israel - All the descendants of Jacob have been harassed and spoiled, first by the Assyrians, and afterwards by the Chaldeans. They acted towards them as a lion to a sheep which he has caught; first he devours all the flesh, next he breaks all the bones to extract the marrow. read more
Adam Clarke
Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 50:18
As I have punished the king of Assyria - The Assyrians were overthrown by the Medes and the Chaldeans. The king is here taken for all their kings, generals, etc., Tiglath-pileser, Shalmaneser, Sennacherib, Esar-haddon, etc. To them succeeded the Chaldean or Babylonish kings. Nebuchadnezzar came against Judea several times; and at last took the city and burnt it, profaned and demolished the temple, wasted the land, and carried the princes and people into captivity. read more
Adam Clarke
Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 50:19
I will bring Israel again - This seems to refer wholly to the ten tribes; for Carmel, Bashan, Mount Ephraim, and Gilead, were in their territories. read more
Adam Clarke
Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 50:20
In those days and in that time - This phrase appears to take in the whole of an epoch, from its commencement to its end. See Jeremiah 50:4 . I will pardon them - So as to deliver them from their captivity, and exact no more punishment from them whom I reserve, namely, the remnant left in the Babylonish captivity. read more
John Calvin
John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 50:11
Verse 11 God shows here, that though the Chaldeans insolently exulted for a time, yet their joy would not continue; and at the same time he points out the cause of their ruin, even because they dealt so arrogantly with the people of God. He then says in the former clause, Ye exulted and rejoiced in plundering my heritage; and then he adds, Ye became fat (for to be multiplied means here to become fat) as a heifer, well fed, or of the grass; for some think that the word is used for דשאה, deshae;... read more
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John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 50:20
In those days, and in that time, saith the Lord ,.... When mystical Babylon shall be destroyed, and the Jews will be converted and brought into their land, and be in possession of every temporal and spiritual mercy; it will then most clearly appear that they are the favourites of heaven, and all their sins are forgiven them, as follows: the iniquity of Israel shall be sought for, and there shall be none ; and the sins of Judah, and they shall not be found ; not that they will be... read more