“Behold, I will punish the king of Babylon and his land,
As I have punished the king of aAssyria.
And he shall feed on Carmel and Bashan;
His soul shall be satisfied on Mount Ephraim and Gilead.
a“The iniquity of Israel shall be sought, but there shall be none;
And the sins of Judah, but they shall not be found;
For I will pardon those bwhom I preserve.
And against the inhabitants of aPekod.
1Waste and utterly destroy them,” says the Lord,
“And do baccording to all that I have commanded you.
How Babylon has become a desolation among the nations!
You have indeed been atrapped, O Babylon,
And you were not aware;
You have been found and also caught,
Because you have bcontended against the Lord.
And has brought out athe weapons of His indignation;
For this is the work of the Lord God of hosts
In the land of the Chaldeans.
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Jeremiah 50:20
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 (Jeremiah 31:34). Without cleansing away of sin, remission of punishment would be neither to the honor of God nor to the highest interests of the elect.
whom I reserve—the elect "remnant" (Isaiah 1:9). The "residue" (Zechariah 14:2; Zechariah 13:8-9).
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Jeremiah 50:20:
Song of Solomon 2:11
Jeremiah 31:34
Jeremiah 50:21
Zechariah 5:4
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