Focused Passage

Jeremiah 51:57-58

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

57 I will make her princes and wise men drunk, along with her governors, officials, and warriors. Then they will fall asleep forever and not wake up,” declares the King, whose name is the LORD of Hosts.

58 This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Babylon’s thick walls will be leveled, and her high gates consumed by fire. So the labor of the people will be for nothing; the nations will exhaust themselves to fuel the flames.”

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Verse 57

Cross-references

Isaiah 44:25 Classic cross-references Jeremiah 46:18 Classic cross-references Jeremiah 51:39 Classic cross-references Daniel 5:30 Classic cross-references Isaiah 21:5 Classic cross-references

Original words

I will make her princes שָׂרֶ֨יהָ H8269 Noun - masculine plural construct | third person feminine singular and wise men וַחֲכָמֶ֜יהָ H2450 Conjunctive waw | Adjective - masculine plural construct | third person feminine singular drunk וְ֠הִשְׁכַּרְתִּי H7937 Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hifil - Conjunctive perfect - first person common singular along with her governors פַּחוֹתֶ֤יהָ H6346 Noun - masculine plural construct | third person feminine singular officials וּסְגָנֶ֙יהָ֙ H5461 Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine plural construct | third person feminine singular and warriors וְגִבּוֹרֶ֔יהָ H1368 Conjunctive waw | Adjective - masculine plural construct | third person feminine singular Then they will fall asleep וְיָשְׁנ֥וּ H3462 Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - third person common plural . . . שְׁנַת־ H8142 Noun - feminine singular construct forever עוֹלָ֖ם H5769 Noun - masculine singular and not וְלֹ֣א H3808 Conjunctive waw | Adverb - Negative particle wake up יָקִ֑יצוּ H6974 Verb - Hifil - Imperfect - third person masculine plural declares נְאֻ֨ם־ H5002 Noun - masculine singular construct the King הַמֶּ֔לֶךְ H4428 Article | Noun - masculine singular whose name שְׁמֽוֹ׃ס H8034 Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine singular is the LORD יְהוָ֥ה H3068 Noun - proper - masculine singular of Hosts צְבָא֖וֹת H6635 Noun - common plural

Verse 58

Cross-references

Isaiah 13:2 Classic cross-references Habakkuk 2:13 Classic cross-references Jeremiah 50:15 Classic cross-references Jeremiah 51:44 Classic cross-references Jeremiah 51:64 Classic cross-references

Original words

This is what כֹּֽה־ H3541 Adverb the LORD יְהוָ֣ה H3068 Noun - proper - masculine singular of Hosts צְבָא֗וֹת H6635 Noun - common plural says אָמַ֞ר H559 Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular Babylon’s בָּבֶ֤ל H894 Noun - proper - feminine singular thick הָֽרְחָבָה֙ H7342 Article | Adjective - feminine singular walls חֹ֠מוֹת H2346 Noun - feminine plural construct will be leveled עַרְעֵ֣ר H6209 Verb - Piel - Infinitive absolute . . . תִּתְעַרְעָ֔ר H6209 Verb - Hitpael - Imperfect - third person feminine singular and her high הַגְּבֹהִ֖ים H1364 Article | Adjective - masculine plural gates וּשְׁעָרֶ֥יהָ H8179 Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine plural construct | third person feminine singular consumed יִצַּ֑תּוּ H3341 Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine plural by fire בָּאֵ֣שׁ H784 Preposition-b, Article | Noun - common singular So the labor וְיִֽגְע֨וּ H3021 Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive imperfect - third person masculine plural of the people עַמִּ֧ים H5971 Noun - masculine plural vvv בְּדֵי־ H1767 Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular construct will be for nothing רִ֛יק H7385 Noun - masculine singular the nations וּלְאֻמִּ֥ים H3816 Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine plural . . . בְּדֵי־ H1767 Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular construct will exhaust themselves וְיָעֵֽפוּ׃ס H3286 Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - third person common plural to fuel the flames אֵ֖שׁ H784 Noun - common singular

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