UYeremiya 51:3

Izhibhalo Ezingcwele

3 Umtyedi wesaphetha makagobele kogobayo, nakozinyusayo, enengubo yentsimbi, ningawayeki amadodana ayo; singelani phantsi wonke umkhosi wayo;

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

let the: Jeremiah 50:14, Jeremiah 50:41, Jeremiah 50:42

brigandine: Jeremiah 46:4

spare: Jeremiah 9:21, Jeremiah 50:27, Jeremiah 50:30, Deuteronomy 32:25, Psalms 137:9, Isaiah 13:10-18, James 2:13

destroy: Jeremiah 50:21

Reciprocal: Isaiah 13:15 - General Isaiah 14:22 - I will Isaiah 21:2 - all the Jeremiah 49:26 - General

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Against [him that] bendeth let the archer bend his bow,.... These are either the words of the Lord to the Medes and Persians, to the archers among them, to bend their bows and level their arrows against the Chaldeans, who had bent their bows and shot their arrows against others; or of the Medes and Persians stirring up one another to draw their bows, and fight manfully against the enemy:

and against [him that] lifteth up himself in his brigandine; or coat of mail; that swaggers about in it, proud of it, and putting his confidence in it, as if out of all danger. The sense is, that they should direct their arrows both against those that were more lightly or more heavily armed; since by them they might do execution among the one and the other:

and spare ye not her young men; because of their youth, beauty, and strength:

destroy ye utterly all her host; her whole army, whether officers or common soldiers; or let them be accoutred in what manner they will. The Targum is,

"consume all her substance.''

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The man who bends the bow, and the heavy-armed soldier who vaunts himself in his coat of mail (Jeremiah 46:4 note), represent the Babylonians who defend the city.