Focused Passage

Jeremiah 51:27-29

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

27 “Raise a banner in the land! Blow the ram’s horn among the nations! Prepare the nations against her. Summon the kingdoms against her—Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz. Appoint a captain against her; bring up horses like swarming locusts.

28 Prepare the nations for battle against her—the kings of the Medes, their governors and all their officials, and all the lands they rule.

29 The earth quakes and writhes because the LORD’s intentions against Babylon stand: to make the land of Babylon a desolation, without inhabitant.

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Verse 27

Cross-references

Genesis 10:3 Classic cross-references Isaiah 13:17 Classic cross-references 1 Chronicles 1:6 Classic cross-references Genesis 8:4 Classic cross-references Isaiah 13:2 Classic cross-references

Original words

Raise שְׂאוּ־ H5375 Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine plural a banner נֵ֣ס H5251 Noun - masculine singular in the land בָּאָ֗רֶץ H776 Preposition-b, Article | Noun - feminine singular Blow תִּקְע֨וּ H8628 Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine plural the ram’s horn שׁוֹפָ֤ר H7782 Noun - masculine singular among the nations בַּגּוֹיִם֙ H1471 Preposition-b, Article | Noun - masculine plural Prepare קַדְּשׁ֤וּ H6942 Verb - Piel - Imperative - masculine plural the nations גּוֹיִ֔ם H1471 Noun - masculine plural against her עָלֶ֙יהָ֙ H5921 Preposition | third person feminine singular Summon הַשְׁמִ֧יעוּ H8085 Verb - Hifil - Imperative - masculine plural the kingdoms מַמְלְכ֥וֹת H4467 Noun - feminine plural construct against her עָלֶ֛יהָ H5921 Preposition | third person feminine singular Ararat אֲרָרַ֖ט H780 Noun - proper - feminine singular Minni מִנִּ֣י H4508 Noun - proper - feminine singular and Ashkenaz וְאַשְׁכְּנָ֑ז H813 Conjunctive waw | Noun - proper - masculine singular Appoint פִּקְד֤וּ H6485 Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine plural a captain טִפְסָ֔ר H2951 Noun - masculine singular against her עָלֶ֙יהָ֙ H5921 Preposition | third person feminine singular bring up הַֽעֲלוּ־ H5927 Verb - Hifil - Imperative - masculine plural horses ס֖וּס H5483 Noun - masculine singular like swarming סָמָֽר׃ H5569 Adjective - masculine singular locusts כְּיֶ֥לֶק H3218 Preposition-k | Noun - masculine singular

Verse 28

Cross-references

Jeremiah 51:11 Classic cross-references Jeremiah 25:25 Classic cross-references

Original words

Prepare קַדְּשׁ֨וּ H6942 Verb - Piel - Imperative - masculine plural the nations גוֹיִם֙ H1471 Noun - masculine plural - אֶת־ H853 Preposition for battle against her עָלֶ֤יהָ H5921 Preposition | third person feminine singular the kings מַלְכֵ֣י H4428 Noun - masculine plural construct of the Medes מָדַ֔י H4074 Noun - proper - masculine singular - אֶת־ H853 Direct object marker their governors פַּחוֹתֶ֖יהָ H6346 Noun - masculine plural construct | third person feminine singular - וְאֶת־ H853 Conjunctive waw | Direct object marker and all כָּל־ H3605 Noun - masculine singular construct their officials סְגָנֶ֑יהָ H5461 Noun - masculine plural construct | third person feminine singular - וְאֵ֖ת H853 Conjunctive waw | Direct object marker and all כָּל־ H3605 Noun - masculine singular construct the lands אֶ֥רֶץ H776 Noun - feminine singular construct they rule מֶמְשַׁלְתּֽוֹ׃ H4475 Noun - feminine singular construct | third person masculine singular

Verse 29

Cross-references

Romans 8:28 Classic cross-references Jeremiah 51:11 Classic cross-references Jeremiah 51:43 Classic cross-references Jeremiah 8:16 Classic cross-references Amos 8:8 Classic cross-references

Original words

The earth הָאָ֖רֶץ H776 Article | Noun - feminine singular quakes וַתִּרְעַ֥שׁ H7493 Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person feminine singular and writhes וַתָּחֹ֑ל H2342 Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person feminine singular because כִּ֣י H3588 Conjunction the LORD’s יְהוָ֔ה H3068 Noun - proper - masculine singular intentions מַחְשְׁב֣וֹת H4284 Noun - feminine plural construct against עַל־ H5921 Preposition Babylon בָּבֶל֙ H894 Noun - proper - feminine singular stand קָ֤מָה H6965 Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person feminine singular to make לָשׂ֞וּם H7760 Preposition-l | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct - אֶת־ H853 Direct object marker the land אֶ֧רֶץ H776 Noun - feminine singular construct of Babylon בָּבֶ֛ל H894 Noun - proper - feminine singular a desolation לְשַׁמָּ֖ה H8047 Preposition-l | Noun - feminine singular without מֵאֵ֥ין H369 Preposition-m | Adverb inhabitant יוֹשֵֽׁב׃ H3427 Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine singular

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