Who destroys all the earth,” says the Lord.
“And I will stretch out My hand against you,
Roll you down from the rocks,
bAnd make you a burnt mountain.
Nor a stone for a foundation,
aBut you shall be desolate forever,” says the Lord.
Blow the trumpet among the nations!
bPrepare the nations against her,
Call cthe kingdoms together against her:
Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz.
Appoint a general against her;
Cause the horses to come up like the bristling locusts.
With the kings of the Medes,
Its governors and all its rulers,
All the land of his dominion.
For every apurpose of the Lord shall be performed against Babylon,
bTo make the land of Babylon a desolation without inhabitant.
They have remained in their strongholds;
Their might has failed,
aThey became like women;
They have burned her dwelling places,
bThe bars of her gate are broken.
And one messenger to meet another,
To show the king of Babylon that his city is taken on all sides;
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Jeremiah 51:27
Ararat, see the Genesis 8:4 note. Minni, probably the western portion of Armenia, as Ararat was that in the center and to the east. Armenia was at this time subject to Media. Ashchenaz was between the Euxine and the Caspian Seas.
A captain - Some prefer the Septuagint rendering in Nahum 3:17 : "a mingled mass of people." (Others, a "scribe," an Assyrian term.)
The rough caterpillers - i. e., locusts in their third stage, when their wings are still enveloped in rough horny cases, which stick up upon their backs. It is in this stage that they are so destructive.
Other Barnes' Notes entries containing Jeremiah 51:27:
Genesis 8:1-14
Joel 3:9
Nahum 3:17
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