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

36 Therefore 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.

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

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References and Original Words

Verse 36

Cross-references

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

Original words

Therefore לָכֵ֗ן H3651 Adverb this is what כֹּ֚ה H3541 Adverb the LORD יְהוָ֔ה H3068 Noun - proper - masculine singular says אָמַ֣ר H559 Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular Behold הִנְנִי־ H2005 Interjection | first person common singular I will plead רָב֙ H7378 Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine singular - אֶת־ H853 Direct object marker your case רִיבֵ֔ךְ H7379 Noun - masculine singular construct | second person feminine singular and take vengeance וְנִקַּמְתִּ֖י H5358 Conjunctive waw | Verb - Piel - Conjunctive perfect - first person common singular - אֶת־ H853 Direct object marker on your behalf נִקְמָתֵ֑ךְ H5360 Noun - feminine singular construct | second person feminine singular I will dry up וְהַחֲרַבְתִּי֙ H2717 Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hifil - Conjunctive perfect - first person common singular - אֶת־ H853 Direct object marker her sea יַמָּ֔הּ H3220 Noun - masculine singular construct | third person feminine singular and make her springs מְקוֹרָֽהּ׃ H4726 Noun - masculine singular construct | third person feminine singular run dry וְהֹבַשְׁתִּ֖י H3001 Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hifil - Conjunctive perfect - first person common singular - אֶת־ H853 Direct object marker

Verse 37

Cross-references

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

Original words

Babylon בָבֶ֨ל׀ H894 Noun - proper - feminine singular will become וְהָיְתָה֩ H1961 Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - third person feminine singular a heap of rubble לְגַלִּ֧ים׀ H1530 Preposition-l | Noun - masculine plural a haunt מְעוֹן־ H4583 Noun - masculine singular construct for jackals תַּנִּ֛ים H8577 Noun - common plural an object of horror שַׁמָּ֥ה H8047 Noun - feminine singular and scorn וּשְׁרֵקָ֖ה H8322 Conjunctive waw | Noun - feminine singular without מֵאֵ֥ין H369 Preposition-m | Adverb inhabitant יוֹשֵֽׁב׃ H3427 Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine singular

BSB notes

Or serpents or dragons

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