Jeremiah 51:3
Let not him that bendeth, bend his bow, and let not, him go up that is armed with a coat of mail: spare not her young men, destroy all her army.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
4And the slain shall fall in the land of the Chaldeans, and the wounded in the regions thereof.
Cross References
Psalms 137:9The moon and the stars to rule the night: for his mercy endureth for ever.
Jeremiah 9:21For death is come up through our windows, it is entered into our houses to destroy the children from without, the young men from the streets.
Jeremiah 50:14Prepare yourselves against Babylon round about, all you that bend the bow: fight against her, spare not arrows: because she hath sinned against the Lord.
Jeremiah 50:27Destroy all her valiant men, let them go down to the slaughter: woe to them, for their day is come, the time of their visitation.
Jeremiah 50:41Behold a people cometh from the north, and a great nation, and many kings shall rise from the ends of the earth.
James 2:13For judgment without mercy to him that hath not done mercy. And mercy exalteth itself above judgment.
Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 51:2-59
The Judgment of Babylon. ( b. c. 595.) 1 Thus saith the Lord ; Behold, I will raise up against Babylon, and against them that dwell in the midst of them that rise up against me, a destroying wind; 2 And will send unto Babylon fanners, that shall fan her, and shall empty her land: for in the day of trouble they shall be against her round about. 3 Against him that bendeth let the archer bend his bow, and against him that lifteth himself up in his brigandine: and spare ye not her young men; destroy ye utterly all her… Read the whole commentary →