Isaiæ 50:12

Jerome's Latin Vulgate

confusa est mater vestra nimis,
et adæquata pulveri, quæ genuit vos:
ecce novissima erit in gentibus,
deserta, invia, et arens.

Parallel Translations

Clementine Latin Vulgate (1592)
confusa est mater vestra nimis, et ad�quata pulveri, qu� genuit vos : ecce novissima erit in gentibus, deserta, invia, et arens.

Nova Vulgata (1979)
confusa est mater vestra nimis, et in opprobrium facta est, quae genuit vos; ecce novissima erit in gentibus, deserta, invia et arens.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

mother: Jeremiah 49:2, Galatians 4:26, Revelation 17:5

the hindermost: Jeremiah 25:26, Isaiah 23:13

a wilderness: Jeremiah 50:35-40, Jeremiah 25:12, Jeremiah 51:25, Jeremiah 51:26, Jeremiah 51:43, Jeremiah 51:62-64, Isaiah 13:20-22, Isaiah 14:22, Revelation 18:21-23

Reciprocal: Jeremiah 50:38 - A drought Jeremiah 50:39 - General Jeremiah 51:37 - become Jeremiah 51:47 - her whole Hosea 4:5 - thy

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Your mother shall be sore confounded,.... The monarchy of the Chaldeans; so the Targum and jarchi, your congregation; or rather their metropolis, their mother city, the city of Babylon; which would be confounded when taken, none of her sons being able to defend her: the same will be true of mystical Babylon, the mother of harlots, Revelation 17:5;

she that bare you shall be ashamed; which is the same as before, in different words:

behold, the hindermost of the nations [shall be] a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert; or, as the Vulgate Latin version, "she shall be the last among the nations"; she that was the head of them, signified by the head of gold in Nebuchadnezzar's image, shall now be the tail of them, and become like a dry land and desert, without inhabitants, having neither men nor cattle in it; see Jeremiah 50:3; or, as Jarchi and Kimchi, their end, "the latter end" m of the kingdom of Babylon; or what should befall that people in their last days would be, that their land should become a wilderness, the habitants being slain, and none to till it; or Babylon is called the last of the nations, because her punishment, in order of time, was last, as Gussetius n thinks;

Jeremiah 25:26.

m אחרית גוים "finis seu extremitas gentium", Vatablus, Montanus, Schmidt. n Comment. Ebr. p. 30.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Your mother - i. e., Babylon. Confounded ... ashamed. Or, ashamed ... blush.

Behold ... - Translate, “Behold she is the hindermost of the nations, a desert, a thirsty land, and a waste:” - the reason why Babylon is to blush. Once the head of gold Daniel 2:32, she is now the lowest of earthly powers.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Jeremiah 50:12. Your mother — Speaking to the Chaldeans: BABYLON, the metropolis, or mother city, shall be a wilderness, a dry land, a desert, neither fit for man nor beast.