Jeremiah 50:29

Summon archers [DOU] to come to attack Babylon; surround the city in order that no one will escape. Do to the people of Babylon what they have done to others [DOU], because they have defied me, the Holy One of the Israeli people.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

Call together the archers against Babylon: all ye that bend the bow, camp against it round about; let none thereof escape: recompense her according to her work; according to all that she hath done, do unto her: for she hath been proud against the LORD, against the Holy One of Israel.

In Context

28Listen to the people who have fled and escaped from Babylon while they tell in Jerusalem how I, Yahweh, have gotten revenge against those who destroyed my temple in Jerusalem.

30The young men of Babylon will fall in the streets; all their soldiers will be killed in one day.

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Cross References

Exodus 10:3So Aaron and Moses/I went into the king’s palace and said to him, “Yahweh God, whom we Hebrews worship, says this: ‘How long will you stubbornly refuse to do what I tell you [MTY]? Let my people go, in order that they may worship me in the desert

Isaiah 14:13You proudly said to yourself, ‘I will ascend to heaven, to my throne above God’s stars. I will rule on the mountain where the gods gather together, far in the north.

Isaiah 47:10You felt protected even though you were doing many wicked things, and you said, ‘No one will see what we are doing!’ You thought that you were very wise and knew many things, and you said, ‘We are gods, and there are no others like us,’ but you deceived yourselves.

Jeremiah 48:26You people of Moab have rebelled against me, Yahweh; so now I will cause you all to stagger like [SIM] drunken people. You people of Moab will wallow in your own vomit and be ridiculed.

Jeremiah 50:14All you nations that surround Babylon, prepare to attack it! Tell your archers to shoot at their enemies; shoot all of your arrows at them [LIT], because the people/leaders of Babylon have sinned against me, Yahweh.

Jeremiah 50:24You people of Babylon, listen, because I have set a trap for you; you will be caught in that trap, because you fought against me.

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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