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Jeremiah 50:1

The word which the Lord spak of Babiloyne, and of the lond of Caldeis, in the hond of Jeremye, the profete.

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.
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 Living Translation
The Lord gave Jeremiah the prophet this message concerning Babylon and the land of the Babylonians.
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 word which the Lord spak of Babiloyne, and of the lond of Caldeis, in the hond of Jeremye, the profete. 2 Telle ye among hethene men, and make ye herd; reise ye a signe; preche ye, and nyle ye holde stille; seie ye, Babiloyne is takun, Bel is schent, Maradach is ouer comun; the grauun ymagis therof ben schent, the idols of hem ben ouer comun. 3 For a folk schal stie fro the north ayenus it, which folk schal sette the lond therof in to wildirnesse; and noon schal be that schal dwelle therynne, fro man `til to beeste; and thei ben moued, and yeden a wei. 4 In tho daies, and in that tyme, seith the Lord, the sones of Israel schulen come, thei and the sones of Juda togidere, goynge and wepynge; thei schulen haaste, and seke her Lord God in Sion, 5 and thei schulen axe the weie. Hidur the faces of hem schulen come, and thei schulen be set to the Lord with boond of pees euerlastynge, which schal not be don awei by ony foryetyng. 6 My puple is maad a lost floc, the scheepherdis of hem disseyueden hem, and maden to go vnstabli in hillis; thei passiden fro mounteyn in to a litil hil, thei foryaten her bed. 7 Alle men that founden, eeten hem, and the enemyes of hem seiden, We synneden not, for that thei synneden to the Lord, the fairnesse of riytfulnesse, and to the Lord, the abidyng of her fadris. 8 Go ye awei fro the myddis of Babiloyne, and go ye out of the lond of Caldeis, and be ye as kydis bifore the floc.

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
and diede in the citee of Arbee, which is Ebron, in the lond of Chanaan; and Abraham cam to biweyle and biwepe hir.
Genesis 46:4
Y schal go doun thidir with thee, and Y schal brynge thee turnynge ayen fro thennus, and Joseph schal sette his hond on thin iyen.
Genesis 50:7
And whanne `he stiede, alle the elde men of `the hous of Farao yeden with him, and alle the grettere men in birthe of the lond of Egipt; the hous of Joseph with her britheren,
Genesis 50:8
without litle children, and flockis, and grete beestis, whiche thei leften in the lond of Gessen, yeden with him.
2 Kings 13:14
Forsothe Elisee was sijk in sikenesse, bi which and he was deed; and Joas, kyng of Israel, yede doun to hym, and wepte bifor hym, and seide, My fadir! my fadir! the chare of Israel, and the charietere therof!
Acts 8:2
But good men birieden Steuene, and maden greet mornyng on hym.
Ephesians 6:4
And, fadris, nyle ye terre youre sones to wraththe; but nurische ye hem in the teching and chastising of the Lord.
1 Thessalonians 4:13
For, britheren, we wolen not, that ye vnknowe of men that dien, that ye be not soreuful, as othere that han not 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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