Jeremiah 51:37 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And Babylon shall become heaps, a dwellingplace for dragons, an astonishment, and an hissing, without an inhabitant. ”

• Jeremiah 51:37 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  Heaps - Of rubbish, formed in this case by the decay of the unburned bricks of which Babylon was built. It is these heaps which have yielded such a large wealth of historical documents in our own...

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• Jeremiah 51:37 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  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 Jere...

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• Jeremiah 51:37 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  dragons . jackals. without an inhabitant. This carries us on to the future again. Compare 1 Peter 5:13 .

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• Jeremiah 51:37 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  He confirms what he had said, that when God raised his hand against Babylon, such would be its destruction, that the splendor, which before astonished all nations, would be reduced to nothing....

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• Jeremiah 51:37 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  And Babylon shall become heaps, a dwellingplace for dragons, an astonishment, and an hissing, without an inhabitant. Without an inhabitant - See Jeremiah 50:39 .

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• Jeremiah 51:37 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  And Babylon shall become heaps, a dwellingplace for dragons, an astonishment, and an hissing, without an inhabitant. Babylon shall become heaps, a dwelling-place for dragons - ( Jeremiah 50:2...

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• Jeremiah 51:37 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  1-14. The end of Babylon arrives.

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• Jeremiah 51:37 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  Babylon shall become heaps... — It is significant, as emphasising the law of retribution, that the terms are the same as those used of Jerusalem in Jeremiah 9:11 ; Jeremiah 19:8 ; Jeremiah 25:9...

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• Jeremiah 51:37 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  CHAPTER XXV BABYLON Jeremiah 50:1-46 , Jeremiah 51:1-64 "Babylon is taken, Bel is confounded, Merodach is broken in pieces."- Jeremiah 50:2 THESE Chapter s present phenomena analogous to t...

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• Jeremiah 51:37 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  In the second movement of the prophecy which deals with Babylon's doom and Israel's responsibility, Jeremiah first repeated his declarations concerning the determination of Jehovah to bring about the...

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• Jeremiah 51:37 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  Is not this command to the people of God, to go out of Babylon, the same as gospel precepts, 2 Corinthians 6:17-18 ; Revelation 18:4 .

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• Jeremiah 51:37 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  And Babylon shall become heaps ,.... The houses should be demolished, and the stones lie in heaps one upon another, and become mere rubbish: a dwelling place for dragons ; and other wild and savag...

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• Jeremiah 51:37 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  And Babylon shall become heaps, a dwellingplace for dragons, an astonishment, and an hissing, without an inhabitant. Ver. 37. And Babylon shall become heaps. ] See Jeremiah 50:39 .

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• Jeremiah 51:37 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Thus saith the Lord, I will plead thy cause This is, as it were, God's answer to the prayers and imprecations of the Jewish people, mentioned in the two foregoing verses. I will dry up her sea, an...

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• Jeremiah 51:37 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  The Judgment of Babylon. B. C. 595.       1 Thus saith the L ORD ; Behold, I will raise up aga...

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• Jeremiah 51:37 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Babylon shall become heaps; heaps of rubbish. A dwelling-place for dragons, an astonishment, and an hissing, without an inhabitant. See Poole on " Jeremiah 50:39 " , See Poole on " Jeremiah 50:40...

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• Jeremiah 51:37 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  YHWH Promises That They Will Be Avenged ( Jeremiah 51:36-40 ). God acknowledges the justice of their plea, and assures them that He will take vengeance on their behalf. Evil cannot be allowed to t...

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• Jeremiah 51:37 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—For Chronological Notes, see foregoing chapter. Geographical References. — Jeremiah 51:27 . “ The kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ashchenas .” These nations of West...

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• Jeremiah 51:37 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Jeremiah 51:7 . Babylon is a golden cup in the hands of Jehovah. All the captives and allies are intoxicated with it. All nations bow to her idols, submit to her power, wonder at her riches, appla...

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• Jeremiah 51:37 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION Jeremiah 51:1 Against them that dwell in the midst of them that rise up against me . The Hebrew has lēb-kāmai , which is Kasdim , or Chaldea, written in the cypher called...

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• Jeremiah 51:37 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The Work of the Spoilers

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• Jeremiah 51:37 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  2 Chronicles 29:8 ; Isaiah 13:19-22 ; Isaiah 14:23 ; Isaiah 34:8-17 ; Jeremiah 18:16 ; Jeremiah 19:8 ; Jeremiah 25:12 ; Jeremiah 25:18 ; Jeremiah 25:9 ; Jeremiah 29:18 ; Jeremiah 51:25 ;...

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