Jeremiah 50:13
Because of the vexation of Yahweh, she shall not be inhabited, But Shall become a complete desolation,—Every one passing by Babylon, shall be astonished and hiss, over all her plagues.
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
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Job 27:23He shall clap over him his hands, and shall hiss him forth out of his place.
Jeremiah 18:16To make their land a desolation The hissings of age-abiding times,—Every one that passeth by her, shall be astonished and wag his head.
Jeremiah 25:12And it shall some to pass—When the seventy years are fulfilled, I will visit upon the king of Babylon and upon that nation, Declareth Yahweh their iniquity, and upon the land of the Chaldeans,—and I will turn it into age-abiding desolations.
Jeremiah 51:37Thus shall Babylon become—Heaps A habitation of jackals An astonishment, and A hissing, Without inhabitant.
Habakkuk 2:6Shall not, these, all of them, against him, take up—a taunt, a mocking poem, enigmatical sentences—concerning him? And say—Alas! for him who maketh abundance in what is not his own, How long? that he should be burdening himself with heavy debts?
Zechariah 1:15And, with a great displeasure, am I displeased with the careless nations,—in that, when, I, was displeased (for) a little, then, they, helped forward the calamity,
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 →