Jeremiah 51:31
THE WORD WHICH JEREMIAS THE PROPHET spoke to Baruch son of Nerias, when he wrote these words in the book from the mouth of Jeremias, in the fourth year of Joakim the son of Josias king of Juda.
LXX2012 (US English)
In The King James Version
In Context
32Thus has the Lord said to you, O Baruch.
Cross References
1 Samuel 4:12And there ran a man of Benjamin out of the battle, and he came to Selom on that day: and his clothes were torn, and earth was upon his head.
2 Chronicles 30:6And the posts went with the letters from the king and the princes to all Israel and Juda, according to the command of the king, saying, Children of Israel, return to the Lord God of Abraam, and Isaac, and Israel, and bring back them that have escaped even those that were left of the hand of the king of Assyria.
Esther 8:10And they were written by order of the king, and sealed with his ring, and they sent the letters by the posts:
Job 9:25But my life is swifter than a post: my days have fled away, and they knew it not.
Isaiah 47:11And destruction shall come upon you, and you shall not be aware; there shall be a pit, and you shall fall into it: and grief shall come upon you, and you shall not be able to be + 47:11 Or, pure. clear; and destruction shall come suddenly upon you, and you shall not know.
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 →