UYeremiya 51:25

Izhibhalo Ezingcwele

25 Yabona, ndikuchasile, ntaba yokonakalisa, utsho uYehova, elonakalisileyo lonke ihlabathi; ndiya kolula isandla sam phezu kwakho, ndikuqengqe uhle ezingxondorheni, ndikwenze intaba etshisiweyo;

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

I am: Jeremiah 50:31

O destroying: Jeremiah 51:53, Jeremiah 51:58, Genesis 11:4, Isaiah 13:2, Daniel 4:30, Zechariah 4:7

which destroyest: Jeremiah 51:7, Jeremiah 51:20-23, Jeremiah 25:9, Jeremiah 25:18-27, Revelation 8:8, Revelation 17:1-6

and will: 2 Peter 3:10, Revelation 8:8, Revelation 18:9, Revelation 18:10

Reciprocal: Psalms 9:6 - thou hast Isaiah 13:20 - General Isaiah 14:23 - I will sweep Isaiah 26:5 - the lofty Isaiah 47:14 - there shall Jeremiah 21:13 - I am Jeremiah 25:12 - perpetual Jeremiah 50:12 - a wilderness Jeremiah 50:15 - her foundations Jeremiah 50:25 - this Jeremiah 50:26 - destroy Jeremiah 51:37 - become Jeremiah 51:62 - to cut Ezekiel 13:8 - behold Ezekiel 21:3 - Behold Ezekiel 35:3 - and I will stretch Micah 1:6 - and I will pour Nahum 2:13 - I am Revelation 6:14 - and every

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Behold, I [am] against thee, O destroying mountain, saith the Lord, which destroyest all the earth,.... Babylon is called a mountain, though situated in a plain, because of its high walls, lofty towers, and hanging gardens, which made it look at a distance like a high mountain, as Lebanon, and others: or because it was a strong fortified city; so the Targum renders it, O destroying city: or because of its power and grandeur as a monarchy, it being usual to compare monarchies to mountains; see Isaiah 2:2; here called a "destroying" one for a reason given, because it destroyed all the earth, all the nations and kingdoms of it: the same character is given of mystical Babylon and its inhabitants, Revelation 11:18:

and I will stretch out mine hand upon thee: in a way of vindictive wrath, pouring it out upon her, and inflicting his judgments on her; laying hold on and seizing her in a furious manner, as a man does his enemy, when he has found him:

and roll them down from the rocks; towers and fortresses in Babylon, which looked like rocks, but should be now demolished:

and will make thee a burnt mountain: reduced to cinders and ashes by the conflagration of it: or, "a burning mountain": like Etna and Vesuvius; we never read of the burning of literal Babylon, but we do of mystical Babylon: see Revelation 18:8; and with this compare Revelation 8:8. The Targum renders it, a burnt city.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

O destroying mountain - A volcano which by its flames and hot lava-streams “destroys the whole land.”

A burnt mountain - A burned-out mountain, of which the crater alone remains. Such was Babylon. Its destructive energy under Nebuchadnezzar was like the first outbreak of volcanic fires; its rapid collapse under his successors was as the same volcano when its flames have burned out, and its crater is falling in upon itself.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Jeremiah 51:25. O destroying mountain — An epithet which he applies to the Babylonish government; it is like a burning mountain, which, by vomiting continual streams of burning lava, inundates and destroys all towns, villages fields, c., in its vicinity.

And roll thee down from the rocks — I will tumble thee from the rocky base on which thou restest. The combustible matter in thy bowels being exhausted, thou shalt appear as an extinguished crater and the stony matter which thou castest out shall not be of sufficient substance to make a foundation stone for solidity, or a corner stone for beauty, Jeremiah 51:26. Under this beautiful and most expressive metaphor, the prophet shows the nature of the Babylonish government; setting the nations on fire, deluging and destroying them by its troops, till at last, exhausted, it tumbles down, is extinguished, and leaves nothing as a basis to erect a new form of government on; but is altogether useless, like the cooled lava, which is, properly speaking, fit for no human purpose.