Jeremiah 51:62

and thou shalt say—O Yahweh! thou, thyself, hast spoken against this place to cut it off, That there be in it no inhabitant Neither man nor beast,—But desolations age-abiding, shall it become!

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

In The King James Version

Then shalt thou say, O LORD, thou hast spoken against this place, to cut it off, that none shall remain in it, neither man nor beast, but that it shall be desolate for ever.

In Context

61Then said Jeremiah unto Seraiah,—When thou comest into Babylon, then shalt thou look out and read all these words;

63And it shall be when thou hast made an end of reading this scroll, that thou shalt bind thereunto a stone, and cast it in the midst of the Euphrates,

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Cross References

Isaiah 13:19Thus shall Babylon—The most lovely of kingdoms, The majestic beauty of the Chaldees—Become as in the divine overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah.

Jeremiah 25:9Behold me! sending and fetching all the families of the North, Declareth Yahweh and Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon my servant, And I will bring them in against this land and against its inhabitants, and against all these nations, round about,—And I will devote them to destruction, and make them an astonishment and a hissing, and age-abiding desolations.

Jeremiah 50:3For there hath come up against her—a nation out of the North The same, shall make her land an astonishment, And there shall be none to dwell therein,—Both man and beast, have removed—have gone.

Jeremiah 50:13Because 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.

Jeremiah 51:25Behold me! against thee, O destroying mountain Declareth Yahweh, That destroyest all the earth,—Therefore will I stretch out my hand over thee, And roll thee down from the crags, And make of thee a burning mountain:

Jeremiah 51:37Thus shall Babylon become—Heaps A habitation of jackals An astonishment, and A hissing, Without inhabitant.

Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 51:60-64

The Prophecy Sent to the People. ( b. c. 595.) 59 The word which Jeremiah the prophet commanded Seraiah the son of Neriah, the son of Maaseiah, when he went with Zedekiah the king of Judah into Babylon in the fourth year of his reign. And this Seraiah was a quiet prince. 60 So Jeremiah wrote in a book all the evil that should come upon Babylon, even all these words that are written against Babylon. 61 And Jeremiah said to Seraiah, When thou comest to Babylon, and shalt see, and shalt read all these words; 62 Then… Read the whole commentary →

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