Jeremiah 50:11

Because they used to be glad Because they used to be uproarious When plundering mine inheritance,—Because they used to caper about as a heifer at grass, And bellow like bulls.

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

In The King James Version

Because ye were glad, because ye rejoiced, O ye destroyers of mine heritage, because ye are grown fat as the heifer at grass, and bellow as bulls;

In Context

10So shall the Chaldeans become a spoil,—All her spoilers, shall be satisfied, Declareth Yahweh;

12Your mother, hath turned very pale, She that bare you, hath turned red,—Lo! the last of nations, is—A desert, A parched land, and A waste plain,

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Cross References

Psalms 22:12Many bulls have surrounded me, Strong oxen of Bashan, have enclosed me;

Psalms 79:1O God, nations, Have entered thine inheritance, Have profaned thy holy temple,—Have laid Jerusalem in heaps:

Proverbs 17:5He that mocketh the poor, hath reproached his Maker, He that maketh merry at distress, shall not be held innocent.

Isaiah 47:6I had been provoked with my people, Had profaned mine inheritance, And given them into thy hand, …Thou shewedst them no compassion, Upon the elder, madest thou very heavy thy yoke.

Jeremiah 5:28They have waxed fat, they shine Yea they have overpassed the records of wickedness. The right, have they not determined, the right of the fatherless that they might prosper,—Yea justice to the helpless, have they not decreed.

Jeremiah 50:17A sheep all alone, is Israel Lions, have driven him away,—At the first, the king of Assyria devoured him, And here, at the last, Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon hath broken his bones!

Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 50:10-21

The Judgment of Babylon. ( b. c. 595.) 9 For, lo, I will raise and cause to come up against Babylon an assembly of great nations from the north country: and they shall set themselves in array against her; from thence she shall be taken: their arrows shall be as of a mighty expert man; none shall return in vain. 10 And Chaldea shall be a spoil: all that spoil her shall be satisfied, saith the Lord . 11 Because ye were glad, because ye rejoiced, O ye destroyers of mine heritage, because ye are grown fat as the… Read the whole commentary →

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