Focused Passage

Jeremiah 51:47-48

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

47 Therefore, behold, the days are coming when I will punish the idols of Babylon. Her entire land will suffer shame, and all her slain will lie fallen within her.

48 Then heaven and earth and all that is in them will shout for joy over Babylon because the destroyers from the north will come against her,” declares the LORD.

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Verse 47

Cross-references

Jeremiah 50:2 Classic cross-references Revelation 17:5 Classic cross-references Isaiah 46:1 Classic cross-references Jeremiah 51:52 Classic cross-references Habakkuk 2:19 Classic cross-references

Original words

Therefore לָכֵן֙ H3651 Adverb behold הִנֵּ֣ה H2009 Interjection the days יָמִ֣ים H3117 Noun - masculine plural are coming בָּאִ֔ים H935 Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine plural when I will punish וּפָקַדְתִּי֙ H6485 Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - first person common singular . . . עַל־ H5921 Preposition the idols פְּסִילֵ֣י H6456 Noun - masculine plural construct of Babylon בָבֶ֔ל H894 Noun - proper - feminine singular Her entire וְכָל־ H3605 Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular construct land אַרְצָ֖הּ H776 Noun - feminine singular construct | third person feminine singular will suffer shame תֵּב֑וֹשׁ H954 Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person feminine singular and all וְכָל־ H3605 Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular construct her slain חֲלָלֶ֖יהָ H2491 Noun - masculine plural construct | third person feminine singular will lie fallen יִפְּל֥וּ H5307 Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine plural within her בְתוֹכָֽהּ׃ H8432 Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular construct | third person feminine singular

Verse 48

Cross-references

Isaiah 44:23 Classic cross-references Revelation 18:20 Classic cross-references Jeremiah 50:3 Classic cross-references Jeremiah 51:56 Classic cross-references Zechariah 6:8 Classic cross-references

Original words

Then heaven שָׁמַ֣יִם H8064 Noun - masculine plural and earth וָאָ֔רֶץ H776 Conjunctive waw | Noun - feminine singular and all וְכֹ֖ל H3605 Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular that אֲשֶׁ֣ר H834 Pronoun - relative is in them בָּהֶ֑ם Preposition | third person masculine plural will shout for joy וְרִנְּנ֤וּ H7442 Conjunctive waw | Verb - Piel - Conjunctive perfect - third person common plural over עַל־ H5921 Preposition Babylon בָּבֶל֙ H894 Noun - proper - feminine singular because כִּ֧י H3588 Conjunction the destroyers הַשּׁוֹדְדִ֖ים H7703 Article | Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine plural from the north מִצָּפ֛וֹן H6828 Preposition-m | Noun - feminine singular will come יָבוֹא־ H935 Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular against her לָ֥הּ Preposition | third person feminine singular declares נְאֻם־ H5002 Noun - masculine singular construct the LORD יְהוָֽה׃ H3068 Noun - proper - masculine singular

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