Jeremiah 51:35

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33 For thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel:
“The daughter of Babylon is ^alike a threshing floor
When ^bit is time to thresh her;
Yet a little while
^cAnd the time of her harvest will come.”

34 “Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon
Has ^adevoured me, he has crushed me;
He has made me an ^bempty vessel,
He has swallowed me up like a monster;
He has filled his stomach with my delicacies,
He has spit me out.

35 Let the violence done to me and my flesh be upon Babylon,”
The inhabitant of Zion will say;
“And my blood be upon the inhabitants of Chaldea!”
Jerusalem will say.

36 Therefore thus says the Lord:
“Behold, ^aI will plead your case and take vengeance for you.
^bI will dry up her sea and make her springs dry.

37 ^aBabylon shall become a heap,
A dwelling place for jackals,
^bAn astonishment and a hissing,
Without an inhabitant.

38 They shall roar together like lions,
They shall growl like lions’ whelps.

39 In their excitement I will prepare their feasts;
^aI will make them drunk,
That they may rejoice,
And sleep a perpetual sleep
And not awake,” says the Lord.

40 “I will bring them down
Like lambs to the slaughter,
Like rams with male goats.

41 “Oh, how ^aSheshach is taken!
Oh, how ^bthe praise of the whole earth is seized!
How Babylon has become desolate among the nations!

42 ^aThe sea has come up over Babylon;
She is covered with the multitude of its waves.

43 ^aHer cities are a desolation,
A dry land and a wilderness,
A land where ^bno one dwells,
Through which no son of man passes.

Commentaries:

Adam Clarke

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Jeremiah 51:35

The violence done to me - be upon Babylon, - and my blood upon the inhabitants of Chaldea - Zion begins to speak, Jeremiah 51:34, and ends with this verse. The answer of Jehovah begins with the next verse. Though the Chaldeans have been the instrument of God to punish the Jews, yet in return they, being themselves exceedingly wicked, shall suffer for all the carnage they have made, and for all the blood they have shed.

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