Focused Passage

Jeremiah 51:36-37

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

36Therefore this is what the LORD says: “Behold, I will plead your case and take vengeance on your behalf; I will dry up her sea and make her springs run dry.

37Babylon will become a heap of rubble, a haunt for jackals, an object of horror and scorn, without inhabitant.

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Verse 36

Cross-references

Psalms 35:1Classic cross-references Proverbs 22:23Classic cross-references Lamentations 3:58Classic cross-references Jeremiah 50:34Classic cross-references Jeremiah 50:38Classic cross-references

Original words

Thereforeלָכֵ֗ןH3651Adverbthis is whatכֹּ֚הH3541Adverbthe LORDיְהוָ֔הH3068Noun - proper - masculine singularsaysאָמַ֣רH559Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singularBeholdהִנְנִי־H2005Interjection | first person common singularI will pleadרָב֙H7378Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine singular-אֶת־H853Direct object markeryour caseרִיבֵ֔ךְH7379Noun - masculine singular construct | second person feminine singularand take vengeanceוְנִקַּמְתִּ֖יH5358Conjunctive waw | Verb - Piel - Conjunctive perfect - first person common singular-אֶת־H853Direct object markeron your behalfנִקְמָתֵ֑ךְH5360Noun - feminine singular construct | second person feminine singularI will dry upוְהַחֲרַבְתִּי֙H2717Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hifil - Conjunctive perfect - first person common singular-אֶת־H853Direct object markerher seaיַמָּ֔הּH3220Noun - masculine singular construct | third person feminine singularand make her springsמְקוֹרָֽהּ׃H4726Noun - masculine singular construct | third person feminine singularrun dryוְהֹבַשְׁתִּ֖יH3001Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hifil - Conjunctive perfect - first person common singular-אֶת־H853Direct object marker

Verse 37

Cross-references

Revelation 18:2Classic cross-references Isaiah 26:5Classic cross-references Jeremiah 49:33Classic cross-references Jeremiah 9:11Classic cross-references Nahum 3:6Classic cross-references

Original words

Babylonבָבֶ֨ל׀H894Noun - proper - feminine singularwill becomeוְהָיְתָה֩H1961Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - third person feminine singulara heap of rubbleלְגַלִּ֧ים׀H1530Preposition-l | Noun - masculine plurala hauntמְעוֹן־H4583Noun - masculine singular constructfor jackalsתַּנִּ֛יםH8577Noun - common pluralan object of horrorשַׁמָּ֥הH8047Noun - feminine singularand scornוּשְׁרֵקָ֖הH8322Conjunctive waw | Noun - feminine singularwithoutמֵאֵ֥יןH369Preposition-m | Adverbinhabitantיוֹשֵֽׁב׃H3427Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine singular

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Or serpents or dragons

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