Jeremiah 50:15

Raise a shout against her round about She hath stretched forth her hand, Fallen are her buttresses, Torn down are her walls,—Because, the avenging of Yahweh it is, Take ye vengeance upon her, As she hath done, do ye, unto her.

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

In The King James Version

Shout against her round about: she hath given her hand: her foundations are fallen, her walls are thrown down: for it is the vengeance of the LORD: take vengeance upon her; as she hath done, do unto her.

In Context

14Set yourselves in array against Babylon round about All ye who tread the bow, Shoot at her, do not spare so much as an arrow,—For against Yahweh, hath she sinned.

16Cut ye off the sower from Babylon, And him that graspeth the sickle in the time of harvest, From the face of the sword of the oppressor, Each, to his own people will they turn, and Each, to his own land will they flee.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 32:35Unto the days of vengeance and requital: Unto the time their foot shall totter? For, near, is the day of their fate, And their destiny speedeth on.

Deuteronomy 32:43Shout for joy O ye nations [with] his people, For the blood of his servants, he avengeth,—And, vengeance, he returneth unto his adversaries, And is propitious unto the soil of his people.

Joshua 6:20So the people shouted, when the horns were blown,—yea it came to pass, when the people heard the sound of the horn, that the people shouted with a great shout, and the wall fell down under it, and the people went up into the city every man straight before him, and so they captured the city.

1 Samuel 15:33And Samuel said, As women have been made childless by thy sword, So, childless among women, shall be, thine own mother. And Samuel cut Agag asunder before Yahweh, in Gilgal.

2 Chronicles 30:8Now, do not stiffen your neck, like your fathers,—stretch forth the hand unto Yahweh, and enter into his sanctuary which he hath hallowed unto times age-abiding, and serve Yahweh your God, that he may turn from you the glow of his anger.

Psalms 137:8O ruined daughter of Babylon,—how happy the man who shall repay thee thy dealing, wherewith thou didst deal with us!

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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