Jeremiah 51:3
Let not the treader tread his bow, Nor lift himself up in his coat of mail, Nor have ye pity on her young men, Devote ye to destruction all her host.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
4And fallen have the wounded in the land of the Chaldeans, And the pierced-through in her streets.
Cross References
Psalms 137:9O the happiness of him who doth seize, And hath dashed thy sucklings on the rock!
Jeremiah 9:21For death hath come up into our windows, It hath come into our palaces, To cut off the suckling from without, Young men from the broad places.
Jeremiah 50:14Set yourselves in array against Babylon round about, All ye treading a bow, Shoot at her, have no pity on the arrow, For against Jehovah she hath sinned.
Jeremiah 50:27Slay all her kine, they go down to slaughter, Woe [is] on them, for come hath their day, The time of their inspection.
Jeremiah 50:41Lo, a people hath come from the north, Even a great nation, And many kings are stirred up from the sides of the earth.
James 2:13for the judgment without kindness [is] to him not having done kindness, and exult doth kindness 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 →