Jeremiah 50:26

THE MESSAGE

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Come against her from the most distant places.Open her granaries;pile her up like mounds of grainand completely destroy her.Leave her no survivors.

Hebrew Names Version
Come against her from the utmost border; open her store-houses; cast her up as heaps, and destroy her utterly; let nothing of her be left.

King James Version
Come against her from the utmost border, open her storehouses: cast her up as heaps, and destroy her utterly: let nothing of her be left.

English Standard Version
Come against her from every quarter; open her granaries; pile her up like heaps of grain, and devote her to destruction; let nothing be left of her.

New American Standard Bible
Come to her from the farthest border; Open up her barns, Pile her up like heaps of grain And completely destroy her, Let nothing be left to her.

New Century Version
Come against Babylon from far away. Break open her storehouses of grain. Pile up her dead bodies like heaps of grain. Completely destroy Babylon and do not leave anyone alive.

Amplified Bible
Come against her from the farthest border. Open her storehouses; Pile it up like heaps of rubbish. Burn and destroy her completely; Let nothing be left of her.

World English Bible
Come against her from the utmost border; open her store-houses; cast her up as heaps, and destroy her utterly; let nothing of her be left.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Come against her from the vtmost border: open her store houses: treade on her as on sheaues, and destroy her vtterly: let nothing of her be left.

Legacy Standard Bible
Come to her from the farthest border;Open up her barns;Pile her up like heaps,And devote her to destruction;Let nothing of her remain.

Berean Standard Bible
Come against her from the farthest border. Break open her granaries; pile her up like mounds of grain. Devote her to destruction; leave her no survivors.

Contemporary English Version
Come from far away, you enemies of Babylon! Pile up the grain from its storehouses, and destroy it completely, along with everything else.

Complete Jewish Bible
Attack her from every direction! Open her stores of grain! Pile her up like heaps of grain; destroy her completely; leave nothing!

Darby Translation
Come ye against her from every quarter, open her storehouses; pile her up like sheaves, and destroy her utterly: let nothing of her be left.

Easy-to-Read Version
"Come against Babylon from far away. Break open the storehouses where she keeps her grain. Destroy Babylon completely. Don't leave anyone alive. Pile up her dead bodies like big piles of grain.

George Lamsa Translation
Come against her from round about her, open her gates; leave her as a naked woman and destroy her utterly; let nothing be left of her.

Good News Translation
Attack it from every side and break open the places where its grain is stored! Pile up the loot like piles of grain! Destroy the country! Leave nothing at all!

Lexham English Bible
Come against her from the end, open her granaries. Pile her up like heaps and destroy her. Let there be no remnant for her.

Literal Translation
Come against her from the end, open her granaries, pile her up as heaps and utterly destroy her. Do not let a remnant be left.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
These thinges shal come vpon her at the last, they shal breake in to hir preuy chabres, they shall leaue her as bare as stones, that be layed together vpon heapes. They shall so destroye her, yt nothinge shal be left.

American Standard Version
Come against her from the utmost border; open her store-houses; cast her up as heaps, and destroy her utterly; let nothing of her be left.

Bible in Basic English
Come up against her one and all, let her store-houses be broken open: make her into a mass of stones, give her to the curse, till there is nothing of her to be seen.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Come against her from every quarter, open her granaries, cast her up as heaps, and destroy her utterly; let nothing of her be left.

King James Version (1611)
Come against her from the vtmost border, open her store-houses: cast her vp as heapes, and destroy her vtterly: let nothing of her be left.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Come agaynst her, for this is her ende, breake vp her chestes, threshe her as ye threshe corne, destroy her that nothyng shalbe left.

English Revised Version
Come against her from the utmost border, open her storehouses: cast her up as heaps, and destroy her utterly: let nothing of her be left.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Come ye to it fro the fertheste endis, opene ye, that thei go out, that schulen defoule it; take ye awei stoonys fro the weie, and dryue ye in to heepis, and sle ye it, and nothing be residue.

Update Bible Version
Come against her from the utmost border; open her store-houses; cast her up as heaps, and destroy her completely; let nothing of her be left.

Webster's Bible Translation
Come against her from the utmost border, open her store-houses: cast her up as heaps, and destroy her utterly: let nothing of her be left.

New English Translation
Come from far away and attack Babylonia! Open up the places where she stores her grain! Pile her up in ruins! Destroy her completely! Do not leave anyone alive!

New King James Version
Come against her from the farthest border; Open her storehouses; Cast her up as heaps of ruins, And destroy her utterly; Let nothing of her be left.

New Living Translation
Yes, come against her from distant lands. Break open her granaries. Crush her walls and houses into heaps of rubble. Destroy her completely, and leave nothing!

New Life Bible
Come to her from the farthest land. Open her store-houses. Gather her up like grain, and destroy all of her. Let nothing be left of her.

New Revised Standard
Come against her from every quarter; open her granaries; pile her up like heaps of grain, and destroy her utterly; let nothing be left of her.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Come ye against her from farthest parts, Throw open her granaries, Cast her up as heaps, and devote her to destruction, - Do not let her have a remnant.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Come ye against her from the uttermost borders: open that they may go forth that shall tread her down: take the stones out of the way, and make heaps, and destroy her: and let nothing of her be left.

Revised Standard Version
Come against her from every quarter; open her granaries; pile her up like heaps of grain, and destroy her utterly; let nothing be left of her.

Young's Literal Translation
Come ye in to her from the extremity, Open ye her storehouses, Raise her up as heaps, and devote her, Let her have no remnant.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Come to her from the farthest border; Open up her barns, Pile her up like heaps And utterly destroy her, Let nothing be left to her.

Contextual Overview

²¹ "Attack Merathaim, land of rebels! Go after Pekod, country of doom! Hunt them down. Make a clean sweep." God 's Decree. "These are my orders. Do what I tell you. ²²"The thunderclap of battle shakes the foundations! The Hammer has been hammered, smashed and splintered, Babylon pummeled beyond recognition. I set out a trap and you were caught in it. O Babylon, you never knew what hit you, Caught and held in the steel grip of that trap! That's what you get for taking on God . ²⁵"I, God , opened my arsenal. I brought out my weapons of wrath. The Master, God -of-the-Angel-Armies, has a job to do in Babylon. Come at her from all sides! Break into her granaries! Shovel her into piles and burn her up. Leave nothing! Leave no one! Kill all her young turks. Send them to their doom! Doom to them! Yes, Doomsday! The clock has finally run out on them. And here's a surprise: Runaways and escapees from Babylon Show up in Zion reporting the news of God 's vengeance, taking vengeance for my own Temple. ²⁹"Call in the troops against Babylon, anyone who can shoot straight! Tighten the noose! Leave no loopholes! Give her back as good as she gave, a dose of her own medicine! Her brazen insolence is an outrage against God , The Holy of Israel. And now she pays: her young strewn dead in the streets, her soldiers dead, silent forever." God 's Decree. ³¹"Do you get it, Mister Pride? I'm your enemy!" Decree of the Master, God -of-the-Angel-Armies. "Time's run out on you: That's right: It's Doomsday. Mister Pride will fall flat on his face. No one will offer him a hand. I'll set his towns on fire. The fire will spread wild through the country."

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

against: Jeremiah 50:41, Jeremiah 51:27, Jeremiah 51:28, Isaiah 5:26

the utmost: Heb. the end

open: Jeremiah 50:10, Jeremiah 51:44, Isaiah 45:3

cast her up: or, tread her, Isaiah 10:6, Isaiah 25:10, Isaiah 63:3, Isaiah 63:4, Micah 7:10, Revelation 14:19, Revelation 19:15

destroy: Jeremiah 50:13, Jeremiah 50:15, Jeremiah 50:23, Jeremiah 51:25, Jeremiah 51:26, Jeremiah 51:64, Isaiah 14:23, Revelation 18:21-24

Reciprocal: Joshua 8:28 - an heap Isaiah 14:22 - I will Jeremiah 50:9 - I will raise Jeremiah 50:29 - the archers Jeremiah 50:37 - her treasures Lamentations 1:15 - trodden

Cross-References

Genesis 47:9
Jacob answered Pharaoh, "The years of my sojourning are 130—a short and hard life and not nearly as long as my ancestors were given." Then Jacob blessed Pharaoh and left.

Genesis 50:2
Joseph then instructed the physicians in his employ to embalm his father. The physicians embalmed Israel. The embalming took forty days, the period required for embalming. There was public mourning by the Egyptians for seventy days.

Genesis 50:22
Joseph continued to live in Egypt with his father's family. Joseph lived 110 years. He lived to see Ephraim's sons into the third generation. The sons of Makir, Manasseh's son, were also recognized as Joseph's.

Joshua 24:29
After all this, Joshua son of Nun, the servant of God , died. He was 110 years old. They buried him in the land of his inheritance at Timnath Serah in the mountains of Ephraim, north of Mount Gaash.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Come against her from the utmost border,.... Or, "from the end" a; from the end of the earth; from the Persian gulf, and the Caspian sea, on which the Persians and Medes bordered; from the most distant countries; for the Medes and Persians, who are here called unto, brought others along with them in their army from places still more remote; for this is not to be understood, with the Targum, of entering into Babylon on one "side"; or, with Jarchi, of beginning at one "end" of the city, that it might not be known, and be taken suddenly:

open her storehouses; where her gold, silver, jewels, and other precious things, lay: or, her barns or "granaries" b, as the Targum and Kimchi; where the fruits and increase of the earth were laid up; and may figuratively design her cities and fortified places, full of inhabitants, as well as of riches and stores of all kinds:

cast her up as heaps; as heaps of rubbish to make a causeway of, and then tread upon them to make it smooth: or, "as heaps", or "sheaves" c of corn; tread upon them as oxen do, and thereby thresh them out; so Jarchi interprets it,

"thresh her as grains of wheat;''

and to this sense the Targum refers,

"consume her substance as they consume heaps of wheat;''

see Revelation 18:12;

and destroy her utterly: let nothing of her be left; of the city of Babylon, its inhabitants, wealth, and riches; so complete should the destruction be, Revelation 18:8.

a מקץ "a fine", Vatablus, Montanus, Schmidt; "a fine terrae", Piscator; "ab extremis finibus", Tigurine version, Grotius. b מאבסיה "horrea ejus", Montanus, Cocceius; "granaria ejus", Junius Tremellius, Piscator, Schmidt. c כמו ערמים "sicut acervos, sub. tritici", Vatablus "frumenti", Piscator.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Against her - Or, to her, in order to plunder her. Her storehouses (literally granaries) are to burst open, the grain piled up in heaps, and finally they are to devote her to destruction, i. e., to burn her wealth with fire.

From the utmost border - (Or, “from the first of you even to the last”).

Let nothing of her be left - literally, let her have no remnant. Contrast Jeremiah 5:10.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Jeremiah 50:26. Open her store-houses — At the time that Cyrus took the city, it was full of provisions and treasures of all kinds; the walls had suffered no injury; and when the inhabitants heard that the enemy was within, they thought they must have arisen out of the earth in the centre of the city!