Jeremiah 50:14-19

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Jeremiah 50:9-20

God is here by his prophet, as afterwards in his providence, proceeding in his controversy with Babylon. Observe, I. The commission and charge given to the instruments that were to be employed in destroying Babylon. The army that is to do it is called an assembly of great nations (Jer. 50:9), the Medes and Persians, and all their allies and auxiliaries; it is called an assembly, because regularly formed by the divine will and counsel to do this execution. God will raise them up to do it, will... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 50:14

Put yourselves in array against Babylon round about ,.... This is directed to the Medes and Persians, to dispose of their army in proper places round about the city of Babylon, to besiege it; and to order their instruments of war, fit for that purpose, a convenient manner; since they might be sure of victory, the Lord being wroth with it, and having so severely threatened its ruin: all ye that bend the bow, shoot at her, spare no arrows ; the Elamites, or Persians, as before observed,... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 50:15

Shout against her round about ,.... As soldiers do when they make an assault upon a place, to encourage one another, and dismay the besieged; just as the Israelites did when they surrounded Jericho: she hath given her hand ; submitted to the conqueror, and sued for mercy. The Targum is, "she is delivered into her hand;' the hand of the Persians, by two princes of Babylon, who went off to Cyrus, and showed him how to take the city; or rather it was delivered by Zopyrus into the hands... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 50:16

Cut off the sower from in Babylon, and him that handleth the sickle in the time of harvest ,.... Both sower and reaper: the walls of Babylon took in a large compass of land, where there were corn fields; and which, as Curtius F19 Hist. l. 5. c. 1. observes, would yield a sufficiency to hold out a siege against an enemy; but being taken, the husbandman would not be spared, as used to be, but should be cut off, and so none to till the ground, or to reap what was upon it; and thus, in... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 50:17

Israel is a scattered sheep ,.... Or like a sheep that is frightened and drove from the fold, and is dispersed, and wanders about here and there; Israel includes all the twelve tribes: the lions have driven him away ; from his own land, and carried him captive, and scattered him among the nations; these lions are afterwards interpreted of the kings of Assyria and Babylon: so the Targum, "kings have removed them;' comparable to lions for their strength, fierceness, and... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 50:18

Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel ,.... Because of this cruel treatment of his people, whose God he was; and being the Lord of hosts, and able to avenge himself on their enemies, he threatens as follows: behold, I will punish the king of Babylon and his land ; not Nebuchadnezzar, but a successor of his, Belshazzar, who was slain the night Babylon was taken: as I have punished the king of Assyria ; not Shalmaneser, that carried the tribes captive; but a... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 50:19

And I will bring Israel again to his habitation ,.... Or "fold" F21 אל נוהו "ad habitaculum", vel potius "caulam", Schmidt. , or place of pasturage; for the metaphor of sheep is still continued. Israel designs not the tribes of Judah and Benjamin, and the Levites, and a few of the other tribes mixed with them only, but all Israel, together with Judah, as appears from Jeremiah 50:20 ; and so this prophecy had not its full accomplishment at the Jews' return from the Babylonish... 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

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