Jeremiah 50:33

Thus said Jehovah of Hosts: Oppressed are the sons of Israel, And the sons of Judah together, And all their captors have kept hold on them, They have refused to send them away.

Young's Literal Translation

In The King James Version

Thus saith the LORD of hosts; The children of Israel and the children of Judah were oppressed together: and all that took them captives held them fast; they refused to let them go.

In Context

32And stumbled hath pride, And he hath fallen, and hath no raiser up, And I have kindled a fire in his cities, And it hath devoured all round about him.

34Their Redeemer [is] strong, Jehovah of Hosts [is] His name, He doth thoroughly plead their cause, So as to cause the land to rest, And He hath given trouble to the inhabitants of Babylon.

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Cross References

Exodus 5:2and Pharaoh saith, 'Who [is] Jehovah, that I hearken to His voice, to send Israel away? I have not known Jehovah, and Israel also I do not send away.'

Exodus 9:2for, if thou art refusing to send away, and art still keeping hold upon them,

Isaiah 14:17He hath made the world as a wilderness, And his cities he hath broken down, Of his bound ones he opened not the house.

Isaiah 49:24Is prey taken from the mighty? And the captive of the righteous delivered?

Isaiah 52:4For thus said the Lord Jehovah: 'To Egypt My people went down at first to sojourn there, And Asshur — for nought he hath oppressed it.

Jeremiah 30:20And his sons have been as aforetime, And his company before Me is established, And I have seen after all his oppressors.

Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 50:22-33

The Judgment of Babylon. ( b. c. 595.) 21 Go up against the land of Merathaim, even against it, and against the inhabitants of Pekod: waste and utterly destroy after them, saith the Lord , and do according to all that I have commanded thee. 22 A sound of battle is in the land, and of great destruction. 23 How is the hammer of the whole earth cut asunder and broken! how is Babylon become a desolation among the nations! 24 I have laid a snare for thee, and thou art also taken, O Babylon, and thou wast not aware:… Read the whole commentary →

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