Jeremiah 51:3
Let the archer bend his bow against her, and let him lift himself up against her in his coat of mail; and spare ye not her young men, destroy ye utterly all her host.
JPS TaNaKH 1917
In The King James Version
In Context
4And they shall fall down slain in the land of the Chaldeans, and thrust through in her streets.
Cross References
Psalms 137:9Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the rock.
Jeremiah 9:21(9-20) 'For death is come up into our windows, it is entered into our palaces, to cut off the children from the street, and the young men from the broad places. —
Jeremiah 50:14Set yourselves in array against Babylon round about, all ye that bend the bow, shoot at her, spare no arrows; for she hath sinned against the LORD.
Jeremiah 50:27Slay all her bullocks, let them go down to the slaughter; woe unto 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 be roused from the uttermost parts of the earth.
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 →