اِرميا 50:9

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9 زیرا اینك‌ من‌ جمعیت‌ امّت‌های‌ عظیم‌ را از زمین‌ شمال‌ برمی‌انگیزانم‌ و ایشان‌ را بر بابل‌ می‌آورم‌ و ایشان‌ در برابر آن‌ صف‌آرایی‌ خواهند نمود و در آنوقت‌ گرفتار خواهد شد. تیرهای‌ ایشان‌ مثل‌ تیرهای‌ جبّار هلاك‌كننده‌ كه‌ یكی‌ از آنها خالی‌ برنگردد خواهد بود.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

I will raise: Jeremiah 50:3, Jeremiah 50:21, Jeremiah 50:26, Jeremiah 50:41, Jeremiah 50:42, Jeremiah 15:14, Jeremiah 51:1-4, Jeremiah 51:11, Jeremiah 51:27, Jeremiah 51:28, Ezra 1:1, Ezra 1:2, Isaiah 13:2-5, Isaiah 13:17, Isaiah 21:2, Isaiah 41:25, Isaiah 45:1-4

an assembly: The army of Cyrus was composed of Medes, Persians, Armenians, Caducians, Sace, etc.; all of which, arranged under the Medes, came from the north.

they shall: Jeremiah 50:14, Jeremiah 50:29

expert man: or, destroyer

none: 2 Samuel 1:22, Isaiah 13:18

Reciprocal: Numbers 24:8 - pierce Psalms 127:4 - arrows Isaiah 13:5 - from a far Isaiah 21:9 - behold Jeremiah 1:14 - Out of Jeremiah 12:14 - against Jeremiah 25:14 - many Jeremiah 25:26 - all the kings Jeremiah 27:7 - all Jeremiah 49:14 - Gather Jeremiah 51:48 - the spoilers Jeremiah 51:53 - from Obadiah 1:1 - Arise

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For, lo, I will raise and cause to come up against Babylon,.... The work was of the Lord; it was he that would give a commission and a command to the enemies of Babylon; that would incline them, and stir them up, to come against her; that would direct their motions and guide them thither, so that it would assuredly be; wherefore it behooves the people of God to make haste out of it:

an assembly of great nations from the north country; the Medes and Persians, with their allies and auxiliaries which came with them from the north; as also a collection of Christian nations from the north of Europe against antichrist:

and they shall set themselves in array against her; draw up their army in form of battle, or prepare and dispose their instruments of war for the siege of Babylon:

from thence shall she be taken; on the north side, from which quarter the enemy should come; or from the place where their army is drawn up in battle array; or suddenly, and at once: so Babylon was destroyed by Cyrus; and the destruction of Rome, or mystical Babylon, will be sudden and at an unawares, Revelation 18:8;

their arrows [shall be] as of a mighty expert man; or "that bereaves" g women of their husbands, and parents of their children: the Medes and Persians were famous for archery, strong to draw the bow, and skilful to guide and direct the arrow. Strabo h says of Media major, that it sometimes furnished out thirteen thousand archers to the Elymaeans, or Persians, against the Susians and Babylonians;

none shall return in vain; not one of the arrows but shall do execution, kill a man: or "it", or "he, which" or "who, shall not return in vain" i; the assembly of nations, or anyone of the archers or soldiers.

g משכיל "orbantis", Pagninus, Vatablus, Piscator. h Geograph. l. 11. p. 361. i לא ישוב ריקם "quae non redibit frustra", Schmidt; "quae non revertitur frustra", De Dieu; "qui non redit vacuus", Cocceius.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

I will raise - Or, stir up.

An assembly of great nations - The Medo-Persian empire was as much an aggregate of discordant nations as that of Babylon.

From thence - From the north, i. e., by the great nations coming thence.

Return in vain - A proverbial expression for ill success (compare Isaiah 55:11). Here the skillful warrior returns not empty.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Jeremiah 50:9. An assembly of great nations — The army of Cyrus was composed of Medes, Persians, Armenians, Caducians, Sacae, c. Though all these did not come from the north yet they were arranged under the Medes, who did come from the north, in reference to Babylon.

Their arrows — They are such expert archers, that they shall never miss their mark.