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Jeremiah 51:37 KJV
Jeremiah · chapter 51 · verse 37
And Babylon shall become heaps, a dwellingplace for dragons, an astonishment, and an hissing, without an inhabitant.Jeremiah 51:37 · King James Version
Jeremiah 51:37 in context
35The violence done to me and to my flesh be upon Babylon, shall the inhabitant of Zion say; and my blood upon the inhabitants of Chaldea, shall Jerusalem say.
36Therefore thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will plead thy cause, and take vengeance for thee; and I will dry up her sea, and make her springs dry.
37And Babylon shall become heaps, a dwellingplace for dragons, an astonishment, and an hissing, without an inhabitant.
38They shall roar together like lions: they shall yell as lions’ whelps.
39In their heat I will make their feasts, and I will make them drunken, that they may rejoice, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith the LORD.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- dwellingplacemâʻôwnan abode, of God , men or animalsH4583 →
- astonishmentshammâhruinH8047 →
- BabylonBâbelBabel , including Babylonia and the Babylonian empireH894 →
- dragonstannîyna marine or land monsterH8577 →
- hissingshᵉrêqâha derisionH8322 →
- heapsgalsomething rolledH1530 →
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The particulars of this copious prophecy are dispersed and interwoven, and the same things left and returned to so often that it could not well be divided into parts, but we must endeavor to collect them under their proper heads. Let us then observe here, I.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 1-58