Jeremiah 51:17
For we will surely perform every word that shall proceed out of our mouth, to burn incense to the queen of heaven, and to pour drink offerings to her, as we and our fathers have done, and our kings and princes, in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem: and so we were filled with bread, and were well, and saw no evils.
Updated Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
In Context
16As for the word which thou hast spoken to us in the name of the Lord, we will not hearken to thee.
Cross References
Psalms 53:1For the end, among the Hymns of instruction by David,
Psalms 115:5I will pay my vows to the Lord, 1 In the presence of all his people. 1
Psalms 135:17To him who smote great kings: 1 For his mercy endures forever: 1
Jeremiah 10:14Every man is deprived of knowledge, every goldsmith is confounded because of his graven images; for he has cast false gods, there is no breath in them.
Habakkuk 2:18What profits it the graven image, that they have graven it? one has made it a molten work, a false image; for the maker has trusted in his work, to make dumb idols.
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 →