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New Living Translation

Jeremiah 50:1

The Lord gave Jeremiah the prophet this message concerning Babylon and the land of the Babylonians.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Prophecy;   Thompson Chain Reference - Babylon;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Babylon;   Burial;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Babylon;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Seraiah;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Earth, Land;   Jeremiah;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Greek Versions of Ot;   Jeremiah;   Lance, Lancet;   Persia, Persians;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Kingdom of Judah;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
This is the word the Lord spoke about Babylon, the land of the Chaldeans, through the prophet Jeremiah:
Hebrew Names Version
The word that the LORD spoke concerning Bavel, concerning the land of the Kasdim, by Yirmeyahu the prophet.
King James Version
The word that the Lord spake against Babylon and against the land of the Chaldeans by Jeremiah the prophet.
English Standard Version
The word that the Lord spoke concerning Babylon, concerning the land of the Chaldeans, by Jeremiah the prophet:
New American Standard Bible
The word which the LORD spoke concerning Babylon, the land of the Chaldeans, through Jeremiah the prophet:
New Century Version
This is the message the Lord spoke to Babylon and the Babylonian people through Jeremiah the prophet.
Amplified Bible
The word that the LORD spoke concerning Babylon and concerning the land of the Chaldeans through Jeremiah the prophet:
World English Bible
The word that Yahweh spoke concerning Babylon, concerning the land of the Chaldeans, by Jeremiah the prophet.
Geneva Bible (1587)
The word that the Lord spake, concerning Babel, and cocerning the land of the Caldeans by the ministerie of Ieremiah the Prophet.
Legacy Standard Bible
The word which Yahweh spoke concerning Babylon, the land of the Chaldeans, by the hand of Jeremiah the prophet:
Berean Standard Bible
This is the word that the LORD spoke through Jeremiah the prophet concerning Babylon and the land of the Chaldeans:
Contemporary English Version
The Lord told me to say: Announce what will happen and don't leave anything out.
Complete Jewish Bible
This is the word which Adonai spoke concerning Bavel, concerning the land of the Kasdim, through Yirmeyahu the prophet:
Darby Translation
The word that Jehovah spoke concerning Babylon, concerning the land of the Chaldeans, through Jeremiah the prophet.
Easy-to-Read Version
This is the message the Lord spoke through the prophet Jeremiah about Babylon and its people.
George Lamsa Translation
CONCERNING Babylon, the word that the LORD spoke against Babylon and against the land of the Chaldeans by Jeremiah the prophet.
Good News Translation
This is the message that the Lord gave me about the city of Babylon and its people:
Lexham English Bible
The word that Yahweh spoke concerning Babylon, concerning the land of the Chaldeans, by the hand of Jeremiah the prophet:
Literal Translation
The Word that Jehovah spoke against Babylon, against the land of the Chaldeans by Jeremiah the prophet:
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
The wordes yt the LORDE spake vnto the prophet Ieremy, concernynge Babilon, & the londe of the Caldees:
American Standard Version
The word that Jehovah spake concerning Babylon, concerning the land of the Chaldeans, by Jeremiah the prophet.
Bible in Basic English
The word which the Lord said about Babylon, about the land of the Chaldaeans, by Jeremiah the prophet.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
The word that the LORD spoke concerning Babylon, concerning the land of the Chaldeans, by Jeremiah the prophet.
King James Version (1611)
The word that the Lord spake against Babylon, and against the land of the Caldeans by Ieremiah the Prophet.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
The wordes that the Lorde spake vnto the prophete Ieremie, cocerning Babylon and the lande of the Chaldees:
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And it came to pass, when Jeremias ceased speaking to the people all the words of the Lord, for which the Lord had sent him to them, even all these words,
English Revised Version
The word that the LORD spake concerning Babylon, concerning the land of the Chaldeans, by Jeremiah the prophet.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
The word which the Lord spak of Babiloyne, and of the lond of Caldeis, in the hond of Jeremye, the profete.
Update Bible Version
The word that Yahweh spoke concerning Babylon, concerning the land of the Chaldeans, by Jeremiah the prophet.
Webster's Bible Translation
The word that the LORD spoke against Babylon [and] against the land of the Chaldeans by Jeremiah the prophet.
New English Translation
The Lord spoke concerning Babylon and the land of Babylonia through the prophet Jeremiah.
New King James Version
The word that the LORD spoke against Babylon and against the land of the Chaldeans by Jeremiah the prophet.
New Life Bible
The word which the Lord spoke about Babylon, the land of the Babylonians, through Jeremiah the man of God:
New Revised Standard
The word that the Lord spoke concerning Babylon, concerning the land of the Chaldeans, by the prophet Jeremiah:
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
The word which Yahweh spake Against Babylon Against the land of the Chaldeans, through Jeremiah the prophet:
Douay-Rheims Bible
The word that the Lord hath spoken against Babylon, and against the land of the Chaldeans in the hand of Jeremias the prophet.
Revised Standard Version
The word which the LORD spoke concerning Babylon, concerning the land of the Chalde'ans, by Jeremiah the prophet:
Young's Literal Translation
The word that Jehovah hath spoken concerning Babylon, concerning the land of the Chaldeans, by the hand of Jeremiah the prophet:
THE MESSAGE
The Message of God through the prophet Jeremiah on Babylon, land of the Chaldeans: "Get the word out to the nations! Preach it! Go public with this, broadcast it far and wide: Babylon taken, god-Bel hanging his head in shame, god-Marduk exposed as a fraud. All her god-idols shuffling in shame, all her play-gods exposed as cheap frauds. For a nation will come out of the north to attack her, reduce her cities to rubble. Empty of life—no animals, no people— not a sound, not a movement, not a breath.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
The word which the LORD spoke concerning Babylon, the land of the Chaldeans, through Jeremiah the prophet:

Contextual Overview

1 The Lord gave Jeremiah the prophet this message concerning Babylon and the land of the Babylonians. 2 This is what the Lord says: "Tell the whole world, and keep nothing back. Raise a signal flag to tell everyone that Babylon will fall! Her images and idols will be shattered. Her gods Bel and Marduk will be utterly disgraced. 3 For a nation will attack her from the north and bring such destruction that no one will live there again. Everything will be gone; both people and animals will flee. 4 "In those coming days," says the Lord , "the people of Israel will return home together with the people of Judah. They will come weeping and seeking the Lord their God. 5 They will ask the way to Jerusalem and will start back home again. They will bind themselves to the Lord with an eternal covenant that will never be forgotten. 6 "My people have been lost sheep. Their shepherds have led them astray and turned them loose in the mountains. They have lost their way and can't remember how to get back to the sheepfold. 7 All who found them devoured them. Their enemies said, ‘We did nothing wrong in attacking them, for they sinned against the Lord , their true place of rest, and the hope of their ancestors.' 8 "But now, flee from Babylon! Leave the land of the Babylonians. Like male goats at the head of the flock, lead my people home again.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

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against Babylon: Jeremiah 25:26, Jeremiah 25:27, Jeremiah 27:7, Jeremiah 51:1-14, Psalms 137:8, Psalms 137:9, Isaiah 13:1-3, Isaiah 14:4, Isaiah 21:1-10, Isaiah 47:1-15, Habakkuk 2:5-20, Revelation 18:1-24

the land: Genesis 11:31, Job 1:17, Isaiah 23:13, Acts 7:4

Jeremiah: Heb. the hand of Jeremiah, 2 Samuel 23:2, 2 Peter 1:21

Reciprocal: Genesis 11:9 - Babel Psalms 87:4 - Babylon Jeremiah 25:12 - that I Daniel 5:26 - God Daniel 8:4 - pushing Zephaniah 3:15 - he hath

Cross-References

Genesis 23:2
she died at Kiriath-arba (now called Hebron) in the land of Canaan. There Abraham mourned and wept for her.
Genesis 46:4
I will go with you down to Egypt, and I will bring you back again. You will die in Egypt, but Joseph will be with you to close your eyes."
Genesis 50:7
So Joseph went up to bury his father. He was accompanied by all of Pharaoh's officials, all the senior members of Pharaoh's household, and all the senior officers of Egypt.
Genesis 50:8
Joseph also took his entire household and his brothers and their households. But they left their little children and flocks and herds in the land of Goshen.
2 Kings 13:14
When Elisha was in his last illness, King Jehoash of Israel visited him and wept over him. "My father! My father! I see the chariots and charioteers of Israel!" he cried.
Acts 8:2
(Some devout men came and buried Stephen with great mourning.)
Ephesians 6:4
Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger by the way you treat them. Rather, bring them up with the discipline and instruction that comes from the Lord.
1 Thessalonians 4:13
And now, dear brothers and sisters, we want you to know what will happen to the believers who have died so you will not grieve like people who have no hope.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

The word that the Lord spake against Babylon,.... Or "to", of "of Babylon" c; the city of Babylon, the metropolis of the Chaldean empire; sometimes it signifies the whole country, here the city only, as appears by what follows:

[and] against the land of the Chaldeans; whither the Jews were carried captive, for whose comfort this prophecy is delivered out; and which had subdued other nations, and was become an universal monarchy; these people are mentioned last, because the rest of the nations were to drink the cup of God's wrath at their hands, and then they were to drink it after them; see Jeremiah 25:9; this is to be understood not only of Babylon and its empire, literally taken, but of mystical Babylon and its dependencies; of Rome, and its jurisdiction; of antichrist, and the antichristian states, the last enemies of the church and people of God, who will be destroyed by the pouring out of the seven vials; see Revelation 15:1. This prophecy, which is called "the word that the Lord spake", for it was from him, the thing was decreed and declared by him, came

by Jeremiah the prophet, to whom the king of Babylon had been very kind; but yet he must be, and was, faithful as a prophet, to deliver what he had from the Lord concerning the ruin of his empire.

c אל בבל "ad Babel", Montanus; "de Babylone", V. L. "de Babel", Cocceius.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Against ... against - Concerning.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

CHAPTER L

This and the following chapter contain a prophecy relating to

the fall of Babylon, interspersed with several predictions

relative to the restoration of Israel and Judah, who were to

survive their oppressors, and, on their repentance, to be

pardoned and brought to their own land. This chapter opens with

a prediction of the complete destruction of all the Babylonish

idols, and the utter desolation of Chaldea, through the

instrumentality of a great northern nation, 1-3.

Israel and Judah shall be reinstated in the land of their

forefathers after the total overthrow of the great Babylonish

empire, 4, 5.

Very oppressive and cruel bondage of the Jewish people during

the captivity, 6, 7.

The people of God are commanded to remove speedily from

Babylon, because an assembly of great nations are coming out of

the north to desolate the whole land, 8-10.

Babylon, the hammer of the whole earth, the great desolator of

nations, shall itself become a desolation on account of its

intolerable pride, and because of the iron yoke it has rejoiced

to put upon a people whom a mysterious Providence had placed

under its domination, 11-34.

The judgments which shall fall upon Chaldea, a country addicted

to the grossest idolatry, and to every species of superstition,

shall be most awful and general, as when God overthrew Sodom

and Gomorrah, 35-40.

Character of the people appointed to execute the Divine

judgments upon the oppressors of Israel, 41-45.

Great sensation among the nations at the very terrible and

sudden fall of Babylon, 46.

NOTES ON CHAP. L

Verse Jeremiah 50:1. THE WORD THAT THE LORD SPAKE AGAINST BABYLON — This is also a new head of discourse.

The prophecy contained in this and the following chapter was sent to the captives in Babylon in the fourth year of the reign of Zedekiah. They are very important; they predict the total destruction of the Babylonish empire, and the return of the Jews from their captivity. These chapters were probably composed, with several additions, out of the book that was then sent by Jeremiah to the captives by the hand of Seraiah. See Jeremiah 51:59-64.


 
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