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Jeremiah 51:44
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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. 
44 I will punish aBel in Babylon,
And I will bring out of his mouth what he has swallowed;
And the nations shall not stream to him anymore.
Yes, bthe wall of Babylon shall fall. 
45 “Mya people, go out of the midst of her!
And let everyone deliver1 himself from the fierce anger of the Lord. 
46 And lest your heart faint,
And you fear afor the rumor that will be heard in the land
(A rumor will come one year,
And after that, in another year
A rumor will come,
And violence in the land,
Ruler against ruler), 
47 Therefore behold, the days are coming
That I will bring judgment on the carved images of Babylon;
Her whole land shall be ashamed,
And all her slain shall fall in her midst.
48 Then athe heavens and the earth and all that is in them
Shall sing joyously over Babylon;
bFor the plunderers shall come to her from the north,” says the Lord. 
Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
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Jeremiah 51:44

Bel . . . swallowed—in allusion to the many sacrifices to the idol which its priests pretended it swallowed at night; or rather, the precious gifts taken from other nations and offered to it (which it is said to have "swallowed"; compare "devoured," "swallowed," Jeremiah 51:34; Jeremiah 50:17), which it should have to disgorge (compare Jeremiah 51:13; Jeremiah 50:37). Of these gifts were the vessels of Jehovah's temple in Jerusalem (II Chronicles 36:7; Daniel 1:2). The restoration of these, as foretold here, is recorded in Ezra 1:7-11.

flow—as a river; fitly depicting the influx of pilgrims of all "nations" to the idol.




Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Jeremiah 51:44:

Isaiah 21:9
Jeremiah 50:38
Daniel 7:1

 

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