Focused Passage

Jeremiah 51:25-26

Babylon Sunk: The LORD’s Vengeance, Israel’s Deliverance, and the Stone Cast into the Euphrates

The chapter moves from the LORD stirring up destroyers against Babylon, to the command for Israel to flee, to Babylon’s image as a shattered golden cup, to the LORD’s vengeance for Zion, to a creation-theology contrast between the LORD and idols, to Babylon as the LORD’s war club now judged, to repeated announcements of Babylon’s desolation, to pastoral exhortations for exiles not to lose heart, and finally to Seraiah’s symbolic sinking of the scroll in the Euphrates.

Berean Standard Bible, Public Domain - Translation notes - Reference sources

25 “Behold, I am against you, O destroying mountain, you who devastate the whole earth, declares the LORD. I will stretch out My hand against you; I will roll you over the cliffs and turn you into a charred mountain.

26 No one shall retrieve from you a cornerstone or a foundation stone, because you will become desolate forever,” declares the LORD.

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Verse 25

Cross-references

Zechariah 4:7 Classic cross-references Psalms 138:7 Classic cross-references Revelation 8:8 Classic cross-references Isaiah 13:2 Classic cross-references Jeremiah 50:25 Classic cross-references

Original words

Behold הִנְנִ֨י H2005 Interjection | first person common singular I am against you אֵלֶ֜יךָ H413 Preposition | second person masculine singular O destroying הַמַּשְׁחִית֙ H4889 Article | Verb - Hifil - Participle - masculine singular mountain הַ֤ר H2022 Noun - masculine singular construct you who devastate הַמַּשְׁחִ֖ית H7843 Article | Verb - Hifil - Participle - masculine singular - אֶת־ H853 Direct object marker the whole כָּל־ H3605 Noun - masculine singular construct earth הָאָ֑רֶץ H776 Article | Noun - feminine singular declares נְאֻם־ H5002 Noun - masculine singular construct the LORD יְהוָ֔ה H3068 Noun - proper - masculine singular I will stretch out וְנָטִ֨יתִי H5186 Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - first person common singular - אֶת־ H853 Direct object marker My hand יָדִ֜י H3027 Noun - feminine singular construct | first person common singular against you עָלֶ֗יךָ H5921 Preposition | second person masculine singular I will roll you וְגִלְגַּלְתִּ֙יךָ֙ H1556 Conjunctive waw | Verb - Piel - Conjunctive perfect - first person common singular | second person masculine singular over מִן־ H4480 Preposition the cliffs הַסְּלָעִ֔ים H5553 Article | Noun - masculine plural and turn you וּנְתַתִּ֖יךָ H5414 Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - first person common singular | second person masculine singular into a charred שְׂרֵפָֽה׃ H8316 Noun - feminine singular mountain לְהַ֥ר H2022 Preposition-l | Noun - masculine singular construct

Verse 26

Cross-references

Isaiah 13:19 Classic cross-references Jeremiah 50:12 Classic cross-references Jeremiah 51:43 Classic cross-references Revelation 18:20 Classic cross-references

Original words

No one וְלֹֽא־ H3808 Conjunctive waw | Adverb - Negative particle shall retrieve יִקְח֤וּ H3947 Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine plural from you מִמְּךָ֙ H4480 Preposition | second person masculine singular a cornerstone אֶ֣בֶן H68 Noun - feminine singular . . . לְפִנָּ֔ה H6438 Preposition-l | Noun - feminine singular or a foundation לְמֽוֹסָד֑וֹת H4146 Preposition-l | Noun - masculine plural stone וְאֶ֖בֶן H68 Conjunctive waw | Noun - feminine singular because כִּֽי־ H3588 Conjunction you will become תִּֽהְיֶ֖ה H1961 Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person masculine singular desolate שִׁמְמ֥וֹת H8077 Noun - feminine plural construct forever עוֹלָ֛ם H5769 Noun - masculine singular declares נְאֻם־ H5002 Noun - masculine singular construct the LORD יְהוָֽה׃ H3068 Noun - proper - masculine singular

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