Jeremiah 50:7 ESV

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 50:1-46

YHWH’s Judgment On Babylon And His Promises Concerning The Restoration Of The Remnant Of His People (Jeremiah 50:1 to Jeremiah 51:64 ). The series of prophecies against the nations had commenced with the prophecy against Egypt, the greatest nation of the area south of the Euphrates. It now finishes with a declaration of judgment against mighty Babylon, which at this time towered over the nations of the whole area. It was also the centre of all that was seen as debauched and debased, it... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 50:6-10

God’s Call To His Errant People To Flee From Babylon Because The Wrath Of YHWH Is Coming On It (Jeremiah 50:6-10 ). Israel’s plight is described as resulting from her backslidden condition, a plight seen by onlookers as totally deserved because of her disobedience to God. Now, however, she is called on to flee from Babylon because Babylon faces judgment. God’s people should not become caught up in Babylon’s ways. Rather they should flee from them. This call to flee from Babylon because of the... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 50:1-46

Jeremiah 50:1 to Jeremiah 51:58 . Babylon.— This long and monotonous prophecy, which is without order or logical development of ideas, is largely a compilation from the prophetic writings of Jeremiah and others ( cf., e.g., Jeremiah 50:41 ff., Jeremiah 51:15). It presupposes the destruction of Jerusalem, apparently as a remote rather than a recent event. Its idea of Babylon is that of a cruel tyrant to be punished by Yahweh, not that of a Divinely commissioned agent of Yahweh’ s wrath... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Jeremiah 50:7

All that found them have devoured them: as they are in the condition of lost sheep, so they have been under the fate of lost sheep, which every dog, fox, wolf devours. And those that are their enemies have pretended that in destroying them they have done no ill, because they had sinned; so as the sins of the Jews did both expose them to the wrath of God, and also imboldened their enemies, and encouraged them to think that they did God service in destroying them. The habitation of justice: some... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Jeremiah 50:1-46

CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—1. Chronology of the Chapter.—This and the following chapter constitute one prophecy against Babylon; and the date of its authorship is given in chap. Jeremiah 51:59 : “the fourth year of Zedekiah.” Jeremiah delivered this written prophecy to Seriah, the king’s chamberlain and Baruch’s brother (cf. chap. Jeremiah 32:12), who accompanied Zedekiah the king to Babylon, probably at Nebuchadnezzar’s summons, for some imposing state occasion: the prophet’s design being... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 50:1-46

Shall we turn now to Jeremiah chapter 50.Chapter 50 begins with the words,The word that the LORD spake against Babylon and against the land of the Chaldeans by Jeremiah the prophet ( Jeremiah 50:1 ).The end of chapter 51 declares, "And thou shalt say, 'Thus shall Babylon sink, and shall not rise from the evil that I will bring upon her, and they shall be weary.' Thus far are the words of Jeremiah." In other words, this is the completion of the words of Jeremiah. Now I only bring that up to show... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Jeremiah 50:1-46

Jeremiah 50:1 . The word that the Lord spake against Babylon. Messiah in person spake to the prophet, as is stated in Jeremiah 48:1. But while he spake against Babylon, his lips dropped with grace and mercy upon Zion, the habitation of his holiness. Of the fall of Babylon, see on Isaiah 13:14. Isaiah 13:21., where the poetry is beautiful and sublime. Fragments however remain to be gleaned here. The city, according to the best accounts which can be collected from Herodotus, Xenophon,... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Jeremiah 50:7

Jer 50:7 All that found them have devoured them: and their adversaries said, We offend not, because they have sinned against the LORD, the habitation of justice, even the LORD, the hope of their fathers. Ver. 7. All that found them have devoured them. ] As ravenous creatures do wandering sheep. Stragglers are a fit prey for seducers. And their adversaries said, We offend not, ] i.e., God will have it so; Jer 40:2 but this was no good plea. Jer 2:3 The habitation of justice. ] Or, In the... read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Jeremiah 50:7

have devoured: Jeremiah 50:17, Jeremiah 50:33, Jeremiah 12:7-1 Kings :, Psalms 79:7, Isaiah 9:12, Isaiah 56:9 We offend: Jeremiah 2:3, Jeremiah 40:2, Jeremiah 40:3, Isaiah 47:6, Daniel 9:6, Daniel 9:16, Zechariah 1:15, Zechariah 11:5 the habitation: Jeremiah 31:23, Psalms 90:1, Psalms 91:1 the hope: Jeremiah 14:8, Psalms 22:4, Psalms 22:5, 1 Timothy 1:1 Reciprocal: Genesis 39:9 - sin Deuteronomy 29:25 - Because 1 Kings 9:9 - Because Jeremiah 10:25 - eaten Jeremiah 22:9 - General Jeremiah... read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Jeremiah 50:7

All that found them have devoured them: and their adversaries said, We offend not, because they have sinned against the LORD, the habitation of justice, even the LORD, the hope of their fathers.Habitation — Some think this is a name here given to God, who indeed is the habitation of justice, but whether the Chaldeans would call him so, may be a question. Others therefore think the preposition in is understood, making this the aggravation of the Jews sins, that they were committed in a land... read more