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Jeremiah 51:56 KJV
Jeremiah · chapter 51 · verse 56
Because the spoiler is come upon her, even upon Babylon, and her mighty men are taken, every one of their bows is broken: for the LORD God of recompences shall surely requite.Jeremiah 51:56 · King James Version
Jeremiah 51:56 in context
54A sound of a cry cometh from Babylon, and great destruction from the land of the Chaldeans:
55Because the LORD hath spoiled Babylon, and destroyed out of her the great voice; when her waves do roar like great waters, a noise of their voice is uttered:
56Because the spoiler is come upon her, even upon Babylon, and her mighty men are taken, every one of their bows is broken: for the LORD God of recompences shall surely requite.
57And I will make drunk her princes, and her wise men, her captains, and her rulers, and her mighty men: and they shall sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith the King, whose name is the LORD of hosts.
58Thus saith the LORD of hosts; The broad walls of Babylon shall be utterly broken, and her high gates shall be burned with fire; and the people shall labour in vain, and the folk in the fire, and they shall be weary.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- recompencesgᵉmûwlâhmeaning the sameH1578 →
- spoilershâdadproperly, to be burlyH7703 →
- BabylonBâbelBabel , including Babylonia and the Babylonian empireH894 →
- brokenchâthathproperly, to prostrateH2865 →
- surelyshâlamto be safeH7999 →
- takenlâkadto catchH3920 →
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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