Jeremiah 50:26

So, you enemies of Babylonia, come from distant lands and attack it. Break open the places where they store the grain. Crush the walls of the city and the houses and pile up the rubble like [SIM] heaps of grain. Destroy everything; do not leave anything that is not destroyed.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

Come against her from the utmost border, open her storehouses: cast her up as heaps, and destroy her utterly: let nothing of her be left.

In Context

25It is as though I have opened the place where I store my weapons, and I have brought out all the weapons to use against the people with whom I am angry. I, the Commander of the armies of angels, have a lot of work to do to punish the people of Babylonia.

27Destroy all the young men who are as strong as [MET] bulls; take them to where you will slaughter them. It will be terrible for them, because it will be time for them to be punished.

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Cross References

Isaiah 5:26Yahweh will send a signal to summon armies of nations far away; it is as though he will whistle to summon those soldiers who are in very remote places on the earth. They will come very swiftly [DOU] to Jerusalem.

Isaiah 14:23I will cause Babylon to be a place where owls live, a place full of swamps; I will get rid of it completely as though [MET] I were sweeping it with a broom. That is what I, the Commander of the armies of angels, say.”

Isaiah 45:3I will give you treasures that people have hidden in dark secret places [DOU]. I will do that in order that you will know that I am Yahweh, the God to whom the Israelis belong, the God who calls you by your name.

Jeremiah 50:10Babylonia will be conquered, and those who conquer it will take away everything they want. That will surely happen because I, Yahweh, have said it.’”

Jeremiah 50:15Shout war-cries against Babylon from all sides of the city. The soldiers of Babylon will surrender; the towers and walls will be torn down. It is I, Yahweh, who will be getting revenge on the people of Babylon, so help me to get revenge. Do to the people of Babylon what they have done to others!

Jeremiah 50:41Look! A great army will come from the north. A great nation far away with many kings is preparing to attack you people of Babylon.

Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 50:22-33

The Judgment of Babylon. ( b. c. 595.) 21 Go up against the land of Merathaim, even against it, and against the inhabitants of Pekod: waste and utterly destroy after them, saith the Lord , and do according to all that I have commanded thee. 22 A sound of battle is in the land, and of great destruction. 23 How is the hammer of the whole earth cut asunder and broken! how is Babylon become a desolation among the nations! 24 I have laid a snare for thee, and thou art also taken, O Babylon, and thou wast not aware:… Read the whole commentary →

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