Jeremiah 50:13
Because of the wrath of YHWH it is not inhabited, || And it has been a desolation—all of it. Everyone passing by at Babylon is astonished, || And hisses because of all her plagues.
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Job 27:23It claps its hands at him, || And it hisses at him from his place.”
Jeremiah 18:16To make their land become a desolation, || A continuous hissing, || Everyone passing by it is astonished, || And bemoans with his head.
Jeremiah 25:12And it has come to pass, at the fullness of seventy years, I charge against the king of Babylon, and against that nation,” a declaration of YHWH, “their iniquity, and against the land of the Chaldeans, and have appointed it for continuous desolations.
Jeremiah 51:37And Babylon has been for heaps, || A habitation of dragons, || An astonishment, and a hissing, without inhabitant.
Habakkuk 2:6Are these not—all of them—an allegory taken up against him, || And a moral of acute sayings for him, || And say, Woe [to] him who is multiplying [what is] not his? Until when also is he multiplying to himself heavy pledges?
Zechariah 1:15And [with] great wrath I am angry against the nations who are at ease, || For I was a little angry, and they assisted—for evil.
Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 50:10-21
The Judgment of Babylon. ( b. c. 595.) 9 For, lo, I will raise and cause to come up against Babylon an assembly of great nations from the north country: and they shall set themselves in array against her; from thence she shall be taken: their arrows shall be as of a mighty expert man; none shall return in vain. 10 And Chaldea shall be a spoil: all that spoil her shall be satisfied, saith the Lord . 11 Because ye were glad, because ye rejoiced, O ye destroyers of mine heritage, because ye are grown fat as the… Read the whole commentary →