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Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Jeremiah 51:1-58

The particulars of this copious prophecy are dispersed and interwoven, and the same things left and returned to so often that it could not well be divided into parts, but we must endeavor to collect them under their proper heads. Let us then observe here, I. An acknowledgment of the great pomp and power that Babylon had been in and the use that God in his providence had made of it (Jer. 51:7): Babylon hath been a golden cup, a rich and glorious empire, a golden city (Isa. 14:4), a head of gold... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 51:3

Against him that bendeth let the archer bend his bow ,.... These are either the words of the Lord to the Medes and Persians, to the archers among them, to bend their bows and level their arrows against the Chaldeans, who had bent their bows and shot their arrows against others; or of the Medes and Persians stirring up one another to draw their bows, and fight manfully against the enemy: and against him that lifteth up himself in his brigandine ; or coat of mail; that swaggers about... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 51:4

Thus the slain shall fall in the land of the Chaldeans ,.... By the sword, or by the arrows and darts of the Medes and Persians: and they that are thrust through in her streets ; either by the one or by the other, especially the latter, since they only are mentioned; See Gill on Jeremiah 50:30 . read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 51:5

For Israel hath not been forsaken, nor Judah of his God , of the Lord of hosts ,.... That is, not totally and finally; for though they might seem to be forsaken, when carried captive by their enemies, yet they were not in such sense as a woman is deprived of her husband when dead, and she is become a widow, as the word F4 אלמן "viduus, sive viduatus", Vatablus, Calvin, Montanus; "ut vidua", Pagninus; "orbus", Schmidt. used may signify; or when divorced from him; or as... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 51:5

For Israel hath not been forsaken - God still continued his prophets among them; he had never cast them wholly off. Even in the midst of wrath - highly deserved and inflicted punishment, he has remembered mercy; and is now about to crown what he has done by restoring them to their own land. I conceive אשם asham , which we translate sin, as rather signifying punishment, which meaning it often has. read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 51:3

Verse 3 Interpreters give various expositions of this verse. Some understand a soldier of light armor by him who bends the bow; and by him who elevates himself in his coat of mail, they understand a heavy-armed, soldier, There is also another difference; some take אל, al, for לא, la, when it is said ואל יתעל , veal itol, because a copulative follows; and the words seem not to be well connected, if we read thus, “As to him who raises himself up in his coat of mail, and spare ye not,” etc.; and... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 51:4

Verse 4 HE proceeds with what we began yesterday to explain, — that the time was nigh when God would take vengeance on the Babylonians. As, then, this could not be without great destruction in a city so very populous, and as it could not be overthrown except calamity extended itself through the whole country, hence, he says, that though Babylon should prepare great and powerful armies, it would yet be in vain, because they shall fall, he says, wounded everywhere in the land; and then he adds,... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 51:5

Verse 5 The Prophet shows here the cause why God had resolved to treat the Babylonians with so much severity, even because he would be the avenger of his own people. He also obviates a doubt which might have disturbed weak minds, for he seemed to have forsaken his people when he suffered them to be driven into exile. As this was a kind of repudiation, as we have seen elsewhere, the Prophet says now, that Israel had not been wholly widowed, nor Judah, by his God; as though he had said, that the... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 51:3

Against him that bendeth, etc. There are two readings in the Hebrew Bible—one that given by the Authorized Version; the other, "Against him that bendeth (let) him that bendeth his bow (come)." The difficulty, however, is in the first two words of the clause, which are the same in either reading. It would be much simpler to alter a single point, and render, "Let not the archer bend his bow; and let him not lift himself up in his coat of mail" (for the old word "brigandine," see on Jeremiah... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 51:4

In her streets; i.e. in the streets of Babylon. read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Jeremiah 51:1-58

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 51:3

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 51:4

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 51:5

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 51:5

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 51:3

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 51:4

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 51:5

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 51:3

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 51:4

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