Jeremiah 51:3
Against him who bends, let the archer bend his bow, also against him who lifts himself up in his coat of mail. Don’t spare her young men! Utterly destroy all her army!
World English Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
4They will fall down slain in the land of the Chaldeans, and thrust through in her streets.
Cross References
Psalms 137:9Happy shall he be, who takes and dashes your little ones against the rock.
Jeremiah 9:21For death has come up into our windows. It has entered into our palaces to cut off the children from outside, and the young men from the streets.
Jeremiah 50:14Set yourselves in array against Babylon all around, all you who bend the bow; shoot at her. Spare no arrows, for she has sinned against the LORD.
Jeremiah 50:27Kill all her bulls. Let them go down to the slaughter. Woe to them! For their day has come, the time of their visitation.
Jeremiah 50:41“Behold, a people comes from the north. A great nation and many kings will be stirred up from the uttermost parts of the earth.
James 2:13For judgment is without mercy to him who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.
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 →