Merathaim = double rebellion. So called, here, because the empire was founded in a double rebellion. Pekod = Visitation: i.e. in judgment. destroy = devote to extermination. Hebrew. karam. The same word as Jeremiah 50:26 ; not the same as verses: Jeremiah 50:11 , Jeremiah 50:22 . read more
"Go up against the land of Merathaim, even against it, and against the inhabitants of Pekod: slay and utterly destroy after them, saith Jehovah, and do according to all that I have commanded thee. A sound of battle is in the land, and of great destruction. How is the hammer of the whole earth cut asunder and broken! How is Babylon become a desolation among the nations! 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,... read more
Jeremiah 50:20. In those days, &c.— That is, "I will be perfectly reconciled to them, as if they had never offended." The Hebrew expresses the utter ceasing of any thing by seeking and not finding. Compare Psalms 10:15; Psalms 37:36. Isaiah 41:12. read more
Jeremiah 50:21. Go up, &c. The two places here mentioned, though unknown, are supposed to have been situate in the Babylonish dominions. The meaning of the words is, the land of the rebels—and the inhabitants of visitation: and some understand them of the Babylonians in the sense here given. These are the commands of God to Cyrus, though then unborn. Instead of after them, the Hebrew might be rendered their posterity; "Cut off from Babylon the name and remnant," as God threatens, Isaiah... read more
19. (Isaiah 65:10; Ezekiel 34:13; Ezekiel 34:14). read more
20. The specification of "Israel," as well as Judah, shows the reference is to times yet to come. iniquity . . . none—not merely idolatry, which ceased among the Jews ever since the Babylonian captivity, but chiefly their rejection of Messiah. As in a cancelled debt, it shall be as if it had never been; God, for Christ's sake, shall treat them as innocent ( :-). Without cleansing away of sin, remission of punishment would be neither to the honor of God nor to the highest interests of the elect.... read more
21. Merathaim—a symbolical name for Babylon, the doubly rebellious, namely, against God. Compare Jeremiah 50:24, "thou hast striven against the Lord"; and Jeremiah 50:24- :, "proud against the Lord." The "doubly" refers to: first, the Assyrian's oppression of Israel; next, the kindred Chaldean's oppression of Judah (compare Jeremiah 50:17-20; Jeremiah 50:33; especially Jeremiah 50:33- :). Pekod— (Jeremiah 50:33- :); a chief province of Assyria, in which Nineveh, now overthrown, once lay. But,... read more
3. The restoration of Israel 50:17-20The next section of the oracles emphasizes the restoration of Israel. read more
The Lord would bring His sheep back to pasture in their own land. They would enjoy peace and plenty in the best portions of the western and eastern portions of Israel. read more
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E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Jeremiah 50:19
mount = the hill country of. read more