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.

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57I 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.

58This 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 44:25Classic cross-references Jeremiah 46:18Classic cross-references Jeremiah 51:39Classic cross-references Daniel 5:30Classic cross-references Isaiah 21:5Classic cross-references

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I will make her princesשָׂרֶ֨יהָH8269Noun - masculine plural construct | third person feminine singularand wise menוַחֲכָמֶ֜יהָH2450Conjunctive waw | Adjective - masculine plural construct | third person feminine singulardrunkוְ֠הִשְׁכַּרְתִּיH7937Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hifil - Conjunctive perfect - first person common singularalong with her governorsפַּחוֹתֶ֤יהָH6346Noun - masculine plural construct | third person feminine singularofficialsוּסְגָנֶ֙יהָ֙H5461Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine plural construct | third person feminine singularand warriorsוְגִבּוֹרֶ֔יהָH1368Conjunctive waw | Adjective - masculine plural construct | third person feminine singularThen they will fall asleepוְיָשְׁנ֥וּH3462Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - third person common plural. . .שְׁנַת־H8142Noun - feminine singular constructforeverעוֹלָ֖םH5769Noun - masculine singularand notוְלֹ֣אH3808Conjunctive waw | Adverb - Negative particlewake upיָקִ֑יצוּH6974Verb - Hifil - Imperfect - third person masculine pluraldeclaresנְאֻ֨ם־H5002Noun - masculine singular constructthe Kingהַמֶּ֔לֶךְH4428Article | Noun - masculine singularwhose nameשְׁמֽוֹ׃סH8034Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine singularis the LORDיְהוָ֥הH3068Noun - proper - masculine singularof Hostsצְבָא֖וֹתH6635Noun - common plural

Verse 58

Cross-references

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

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This is whatכֹּֽה־H3541Adverbthe LORDיְהוָ֣הH3068Noun - proper - masculine singularof Hostsצְבָא֗וֹתH6635Noun - common pluralsaysאָמַ֞רH559Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singularBabylon’sבָּבֶ֤לH894Noun - proper - feminine singularthickהָֽרְחָבָה֙H7342Article | Adjective - feminine singularwallsחֹ֠מוֹתH2346Noun - feminine plural constructwill be leveledעַרְעֵ֣רH6209Verb - Piel - Infinitive absolute. . .תִּתְעַרְעָ֔רH6209Verb - Hitpael - Imperfect - third person feminine singularand her highהַגְּבֹהִ֖יםH1364Article | Adjective - masculine pluralgatesוּשְׁעָרֶ֥יהָH8179Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine plural construct | third person feminine singularconsumedיִצַּ֑תּוּH3341Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine pluralby fireבָּאֵ֣שׁH784Preposition-b, Article | Noun - common singularSo the laborוְיִֽגְע֨וּH3021Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive imperfect - third person masculine pluralof the peopleעַמִּ֧יםH5971Noun - masculine pluralvvvבְּדֵי־H1767Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular constructwill be for nothingרִ֛יקH7385Noun - masculine singularthe nationsוּלְאֻמִּ֥יםH3816Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine plural. . .בְּדֵי־H1767Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular constructwill exhaust themselvesוְיָעֵֽפוּ׃סH3286Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - third person common pluralto fuel the flamesאֵ֖שׁH784Noun - common singular

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