Focused Passage

Jeremiah 51:5-8

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

5 For Israel and Judah have not been abandoned by their God, the LORD of Hosts, though their land is full of guilt before the Holy One of Israel.”

6 Flee from Babylon! Escape with your lives! Do not be destroyed in her punishment. For this is the time of the LORD’s vengeance; He will pay her what she deserves.

7 Babylon was a gold cup in the hand of the LORD, making the whole earth drunk. The nations drank her wine; therefore the nations have gone mad.

8 Suddenly Babylon has fallen and been shattered. Wail for her; get her balm for her pain; perhaps she can be healed.

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References and Original Words

Verse 5

Cross-references

Romans 11:1 Classic cross-references 2 Kings 19:22 Classic cross-references Hosea 4:1 Classic cross-references Isaiah 43:15 Classic cross-references Zechariah 12:6 Classic cross-references

Original words

For כִּ֠י H3588 Conjunction Israel יִשְׂרָאֵ֤ל H3478 Noun - proper - masculine singular and Judah וִֽיהוּדָה֙ H3063 Conjunctive waw | Noun - proper - masculine singular have not לֹֽא־ H3808 Adverb - Negative particle been abandoned אַלְמָ֨ן H488 Adjective - masculine singular by their God מֵֽאֱלֹהָ֔יו H430 Preposition-m | Noun - masculine plural construct | third person masculine singular the LORD מֵֽיְהוָ֖ה H3068 Preposition-m | Noun - proper - masculine singular of Hosts צְבָא֑וֹת H6635 Noun - common plural though כִּ֤י H3588 Conjunction their land אַרְצָם֙ H776 Noun - feminine singular construct | third person masculine plural is full of מָלְאָ֣ה H4390 Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person feminine singular guilt אָשָׁ֔ם H817 Noun - masculine singular before the Holy מִקְּד֖וֹשׁ H6918 Preposition-m | Adjective - masculine singular construct One of Israel יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃ H3478 Noun - proper - masculine singular

Verse 6

Cross-references

Revelation 18:4 Classic cross-references 2 Corinthians 6:17 Classic cross-references Jeremiah 25:14 Classic cross-references Isaiah 63:4 Classic cross-references Jeremiah 50:8 Classic cross-references

Original words

Flee נֻ֣סוּ׀ H5127 Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine plural from מִתּ֣וֹךְ H8432 Preposition-m | Noun - masculine singular construct Babylon בָּבֶ֗ל H894 Noun - proper - feminine singular Escape וּמַלְּטוּ֙ H4422 Conjunctive waw | Verb - Piel - Imperative - masculine plural with your אִ֣ישׁ H376 Noun - masculine singular lives נַפְשׁ֔וֹ H5315 Noun - feminine singular construct | third person masculine singular Do not אַל־ H408 Adverb be destroyed תִּדַּ֖מּוּ H1826 Verb - Nifal - Imperfect - second person masculine plural in her punishment בַּעֲוֺנָ֑הּ H5771 Preposition-b | Noun - common singular construct | third person feminine singular For כִּי֩ H3588 Conjunction this הִיא֙ H1931 Pronoun - third person feminine singular is the time עֵ֨ת H6256 Noun - common singular construct of the LORD’s לַֽיהוָ֔ה H3068 Preposition-l | Noun - proper - masculine singular vengeance נְקָמָ֥ה H5360 Noun - feminine singular He ה֥וּא H1931 Pronoun - third person masculine singular will pay מְשַׁלֵּ֖ם H7999 Verb - Piel - Participle - masculine singular her לָֽהּ׃ Preposition | third person feminine singular what she deserves גְּמ֕וּל H1576 Noun - masculine singular

Verse 7

Cross-references

Revelation 17:4 Classic cross-references Habakkuk 2:15 Classic cross-references Revelation 14:8 Classic cross-references Revelation 17:2 Classic cross-references Revelation 18:3 Classic cross-references

Original words

Babylon בָּבֶל֙ H894 Noun - proper - feminine singular was a gold זָהָ֤ב H2091 Noun - masculine singular cup כּוֹס־ H3563 Noun - feminine singular construct in the hand בְּיַד־ H3027 Preposition-b | Noun - feminine singular construct of the LORD יְהוָ֔ה H3068 Noun - proper - masculine singular making the whole כָּל־ H3605 Noun - masculine singular construct earth הָאָ֑רֶץ H776 Article | Noun - feminine singular drunk מְשַׁכֶּ֖רֶת H7937 Verb - Piel - Participle - feminine singular The nations גוֹיִ֔ם H1471 Noun - masculine plural drank שָׁת֣וּ H8354 Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person common plural her wine מִיֵּינָהּ֙ H3196 Preposition-m | Noun - masculine singular construct | third person feminine singular therefore עַל־ H5921 Preposition . . . כֵּ֖ן H3651 Adverb the nations גוֹיִֽם׃ H1471 Noun - masculine plural have gone mad יִתְהֹלְל֥וּ H1984 Verb - Hitpael - Imperfect - third person masculine plural

Verse 8

Cross-references

Jeremiah 8:22 Classic cross-references Revelation 18:2 Classic cross-references Isaiah 21:9 Classic cross-references Jeremiah 46:11 Classic cross-references Isaiah 13:6 Classic cross-references

Original words

Suddenly פִּתְאֹ֛ם H6597 Adverb Babylon בָבֶ֖ל H894 Noun - proper - feminine singular has fallen נָפְלָ֥ה H5307 Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person feminine singular and been shattered וַתִּשָּׁבֵ֑ר H7665 Conjunctive waw | Verb - Nifal - Consecutive imperfect - third person feminine singular Wail הֵילִ֣ילוּ H3213 Verb - Hifil - Imperative - masculine plural for her עָלֶ֗יהָ H5921 Preposition | third person feminine singular get her קְח֤וּ H3947 Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine plural balm צֳרִי֙ H6875 Noun - masculine singular for her pain לְמַכְאוֹבָ֔הּ H4341 Preposition-l | Noun - masculine singular construct | third person feminine singular perhaps אוּלַ֖י H194 Adverb she can be healed תֵּרָפֵֽא׃ H7495 Verb - Nifal - Imperfect - third person feminine singular

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