Jeremiah 51:51

Jeremiah 51:51

49 As Babylon has caused the slain of Israel to fall,
So at Babylon the slain of all the earth shall fall.

50 ^aYou who have escaped the sword,
Get away! Do not stand still!
^bRemember the Lord afar off,
And let Jerusalem come to your mind.

51 ^aWe are ashamed because we have heard reproach.
Shame has covered our faces,
For strangers ^bhave come into the sanctuaries of the Lord’s house.

52 “Therefore behold, the days are coming,” says the Lord,
“That I will bring judgment on her carved images,
And throughout all her land the wounded shall groan.

53 ^aThough Babylon were to¹ mount up to heaven,
And though she were to fortify the height of her strength,
Yet from Me plunderers would come to her,” says the Lord.

54 ^aThe sound of a cry comes from Babylon,
And great destruction from the land of the Chaldeans,

Commentaries:

Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

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The prophet anticipates the Jews' reply; I know you will say in despair, "We are confounded," etc. "Wherefore (God saith to you) behold, I will," etc. (Jeremiah 51:52) [CALVIN]. I prefer taking Jeremiah 51:51 as the prayer which the Jews are directed to offer in exile (Jeremiah 51:50), "let Jerusalem come into your mind" (and say in prayer to God), "We are confounded." This view is confirmed by Psalms 44:15-16; Psalms 79:4; Psalms 102:17-20; Isaiah 62:6-7.

for strangers—The "reproach," which especially has stung us, came when they taunted us with the fact that they had burned the temple, our peculiar glory, as though our religion was a thing of naught.

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