Jeremiah 51:3
Let not the archer tread his bow, Nor lift himself up in his coat of mail,—And do not spare her young men, Devote to destruction all her host.
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
In Context
4So shall they fall wounded in the land of Chaldea,—Yea thrust through, in her streets,
Cross References
Psalms 137:9How happy the man who shall snatch away and dash thy children against the crag.
Jeremiah 9:21That death Hath come up through our windows, Hath entered our palaces,—Cutting off The boy from the street, The young men from the broadways.
Jeremiah 50:14Set 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.
Jeremiah 50:27Cut up all her bullocks, Let them go down to the slaughter,—Alas for them! For their day, hath come, Their time for punishment.
Jeremiah 50:41Lo! a people coming in from the North,—Yea, a great nation and many kings, shall be roused up out of the remote parts of the earth:
James 2:13For, the judgment, [will be] without mercy, unto him that hath shewed no mercy: Mercy, boasteth, 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 →