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The word that the LORD spoke concerning Babylon, concerning the land of the Chaldeans, by Jeremiah the prophet. See also: Jeremiah 25:26-27Jeremiah 51:1-14Isaiah 13:1-3“Declare among the nations and publish, and set up a standard; publish, and don’t conceal; say, ‘Babylon has been taken, Bel is disappointed, Merodach is dismayed! Her images are disappointed. Her idols are dismayed.’ See also: Isaiah 46:1Isaiah 21:9Jeremiah 51:47For a nation comes up out of the north against her, which will make her land desolate, and no one will dwell in it. They have fled. They are gone, both man and animal. See also: Zephaniah 1:3Jeremiah 51:11Jeremiah 51:62“In those days, and in that time,” says the LORD, “the children of Israel will come, they and the children of Judah together; they will go on their way weeping, and will seek the LORD their God. See also: Hosea 3:5Jeremiah 31:31Hosea 1:11They will inquire concerning Zion with their faces turned toward it, saying, ‘Come, and join yourselves to the LORD in an everlasting covenant that will not be forgotten.’ See also: Jeremiah 32:40Isaiah 35:8Hebrews 8:6-10My people have been lost sheep. Their shepherds have caused them to go astray. They have turned them away on the mountains. They have gone from mountain to hill. They have forgotten their resting place. See also: Isaiah 53:6Matthew 9:36Matthew 10:6All who found them have devoured them. Their adversaries said, ‘We are not guilty, because they have sinned against the LORD, the habitation of righteousness, even the LORD, the hope of their fathers.’ See also: Jeremiah 14:8Jeremiah 2:3Zechariah 11:5“Flee out of the middle of Babylon! Go out of the land of the Chaldeans, and be as the male goats before the flocks. See also: Isaiah 48:20Jeremiah 51:6Revelation 18:4For, behold, I will stir up and cause to come up against Babylon a company of great nations from the north country; and they will set themselves in array against her. She will be taken from there. Their arrows will be as of an expert mighty man. None of them will return in vain. See also: Jeremiah 51:1-4Isaiah 21:2Ezra 1:1-2Chaldea will be a prey. All who prey on her will be satisfied,” says the LORD. See also: Jeremiah 25:12Isaiah 33:23Isaiah 33:4“Because you are glad, because you rejoice, O you who plunder my heritage, because you are wanton as a heifer that treads out the grain, and neigh as strong horses, See also: Isaiah 47:6Obadiah 1:12Proverbs 17:5your mother will be utterly disappointed. She who bore you will be confounded. Behold, she will be the least of the nations, a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert. See also: Jeremiah 51:43Jeremiah 50:35-40Isaiah 13:20-22Because of the LORD’s wrath she won’t be inhabited, but she will be wholly desolate. Everyone who goes by Babylon will be astonished, and hiss at all her plagues. See also: Jeremiah 18:16Jeremiah 49:17Zechariah 1:15Set yourselves in array against Babylon all around, all you who bend the bow; shoot at her. Spare no arrows, for she has sinned against the LORD. See also: Jeremiah 50:29Habakkuk 2:17Jeremiah 50:42Shout against her all around. She has submitted herself. Her bulwarks have fallen. Her walls have been thrown down, for it is the vengeance of the LORD. Take vengeance on her. As she has done, do to her. See also: Jeremiah 51:58Revelation 18:6Jeremiah 46:10Cut off the sower from Babylon, and him who handles the sickle in the time of harvest. For fear of the oppressing sword, they will each return to their own people, and they will each flee to their own land. See also: Jeremiah 51:9Jeremiah 46:16Isaiah 13:14“Israel is a hunted sheep. The lions have driven him away. First, the king of Assyria devoured him, and now at last Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has broken his bones.” See also: Jeremiah 2:15Joel 3:2Jeremiah 50:6Therefore the LORD of Armies, the God of Israel, says: “Behold, I will punish the king of Babylon and his land, as I have punished the king of Assyria. See also: Isaiah 10:12Nahum 1:1-3Isaiah 37:36-38I will bring Israel again to his pasture, and he will feed on Carmel and Bashan. His soul will be satisfied on the hills of Ephraim and in Gilead. See also: Jeremiah 30:18Jeremiah 31:8-10Jeremiah 23:3In those days, and in that time,” says the LORD, “the iniquity of Israel will be sought for, and there will be none, also the sins of Judah, and they won’t be found; for I will pardon them whom I leave as a remnant. See also: Micah 7:19Jeremiah 31:34Isaiah 1:9“Go up against the land of Merathaim, even against it, and against the inhabitants of Pekod. Kill and utterly destroy after them,” says the LORD, “and do according to all that I have commanded you. See also: Ezekiel 23:23Isaiah 48:14Isaiah 44:28A sound of battle is in the land, and of great destruction. See also: Jeremiah 4:19-21Jeremiah 51:54-56Isaiah 21:2-4How the hammer of the whole earth is cut apart and broken! How Babylon has become a desolation among the nations! See also: Jeremiah 51:20-24Isaiah 14:4-6Revelation 18:16I have laid a snare for you, and you are also taken, Babylon, and you weren’t aware. You are found, and also caught, because you have fought against the LORD. See also: Daniel 5:30-31Job 9:4Job 40:9The LORD has opened his armory, and has brought out the weapons of his indignation; for the Lord, GOD of Armies, has a work to do in the land of the Chaldeans. See also: Jeremiah 51:55Jeremiah 51:25Amos 3:6Come against her from the farthest border. Open her storehouses. Cast her up as heaps. Destroy her utterly. Let nothing of her be left. See also: Isaiah 14:23Jeremiah 50:10Isaiah 45:3Kill all her bulls. Let them go down to the slaughter. Woe to them! For their day has come, the time of their visitation. See also: Jeremiah 46:21Isaiah 34:7Psalms 22:12Listen to those who flee and escape out of the land of Babylon, to declare in Zion the vengeance of the LORD our God, the vengeance of his temple. See also: Lamentations 1:10Jeremiah 50:15Isaiah 48:20“Call together the archers against Babylon, all those who bend the bow. Encamp against her all around. Let none of it escape. Pay her back according to her work. According to all that she has done, do to her; for she has been proud against the LORD, against the Holy One of Israel. See also: Isaiah 47:10Jeremiah 51:56Exodus 10:3Therefore her young men will fall in her streets. All her men of war will be brought to silence in that day,” says the LORD. See also: Jeremiah 49:26Jeremiah 18:21Jeremiah 9:21“Behold, I am against you, you proud one,” says the Lord, GOD of Armies; “for your day has come, the time that I will visit you. See also: Jeremiah 21:13Jeremiah 50:29Nahum 2:13The proud one will stumble and fall, and no one will raise him up. I will kindle a fire in his cities, and it will devour all who are around him.” See also: Jeremiah 49:27Jeremiah 21:14Isaiah 10:12-15The LORD of Armies says: “The children of Israel and the children of Judah are oppressed together. All who took them captive hold them fast. They refuse to let them go. See also: Isaiah 14:17Exodus 9:2-3Isaiah 58:6Their Redeemer is strong. The LORD of Armies is his name. He will thoroughly plead their cause, that he may give rest to the earth, and disquiet the inhabitants of Babylon. See also: Isaiah 54:5Jeremiah 51:36Isaiah 47:4“A sword is on the Chaldeans,” says the LORD, “and on the inhabitants of Babylon, on her princes, and on her wise men. See also: Jeremiah 47:6Jeremiah 51:57Daniel 5:30A sword is on the boasters, and they will become fools. A sword is on her mighty men, and they will be dismayed. See also: Jeremiah 49:22Isaiah 44:25Nahum 3:13A sword is on their horses, on their chariots, and on all the mixed people who are in the middle of her; and they will become as women. A sword is on her treasures, and they will be robbed. See also: Jeremiah 51:30Nahum 3:13Jeremiah 51:21A drought is on her waters, and they will be dried up; for it is a land of engraved images, and they are mad over idols. See also: Revelation 16:12Isaiah 44:27Jeremiah 50:2Therefore the wild animals of the desert with the wolves will dwell there. The ostriches will dwell therein. It will be inhabited no more forever, neither will it be lived in from generation to generation. See also: Isaiah 13:20-22Revelation 18:2Jeremiah 25:12As when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah and its neighbor cities,” says the LORD, “so no man will dwell there, neither will any son of man live therein. See also: Genesis 19:24-25Isaiah 13:19-202 Peter 2:6“Behold, a people comes from the north. A great nation and many kings will be stirred up from the uttermost parts of the earth. See also: Jeremiah 51:27-28Isaiah 13:2-5Jeremiah 50:9They take up bow and spear. They are cruel, and have no mercy. Their voice roars like the sea. They ride on horses, everyone set in array, as a man to the battle, against you, daughter of Babylon. See also: Isaiah 5:30Jeremiah 47:3Isaiah 13:17-18The king of Babylon has heard the news of them, and his hands become feeble. Anguish has taken hold of him, pains as of a woman in labor. See also: Jeremiah 49:24Jeremiah 51:31Jeremiah 49:22Behold, the enemy will come up like a lion from the thickets of the Jordan against the strong habitation; for I will suddenly make them run away from it. Whoever is chosen, I will appoint him over it, for who is like me? Who will appoint me a time? Who is the shepherd who can stand before me?” See also: Jeremiah 49:19-21Psalms 89:6Isaiah 41:25Therefore hear the counsel of the LORD that he has taken against Babylon; and his purposes that he has purposed against the land of the Chaldeans: Surely they will drag them away, even the little ones of the flock. Surely he will make their habitation desolate over them. See also: Jeremiah 49:20Jeremiah 51:10-11Isaiah 46:10-11The earth trembles at the noise of the taking of Babylon. The cry is heard among the nations. See also: Jeremiah 49:21Ezekiel 26:18Revelation 18:9-19
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Notes in English 19th-century Catholic commentary by Fr. George Leo Haydock, shown as published.
These notes keep the polemics of their time: some speak harshly of the Jewish people or of other Christians. The Church teaches otherwise today. The Jewish people may not be blamed for the death of Christ (Nostra Aetate 4; Catechism 597–598), and Christians of other communities are our brothers and sisters in the Lord (Unitatis Redintegratio 3). Christian unity
Jeremiah 50:1
Ver. 1. Prophet. He had spoken against them in the fourth year of Joachim, and now is more explicit in the fourth of Sedecias, (C. li. 60.) sending his predictions to be read, and then thrown into the Euphrates. The fall of Babylon was gradual. It was in consequence of her pride and cruelty, v. 11, 17, 23, 29. Is.
xlvii. 6. C. --- It had shewn the greatest enmity to the Jews, and was at last overthrown by the Medes and Persians. W.
↑ 1Jeremiah 50:2
Ver. 2. Declare. This is grand. Let all the captives publish these tidings. C. ---
Bel, &c. Bel and Merodach were worshipped for gods by the men of Babylon.
Ch. --- Merodach might be an ancient king deified. C. --- These greatest of their idols could neither save the people nor themselves. W.
↑ 2Jeremiah 50:3
Ver. 3. A nation, &c. viz. the Medes, (Ch.) under Darius, (Dan. v. 31. Theod.
Grot.) or rather under Cyrus, who came upon Babylon from the north, after conquering Asia; though he was born to the east of that city. Is. lxi. 2. 25. He was a Mede by his mother, and ruler of that nation. He gave liberty to the Jews, as the prophet inculcates ten times. --- Desolate. Herodotus. Xenophon,
&c. say not that Cyrus demolished any part of the city; but Berosus informs us that he took it without opposition, and levelled the outer walls. Hystaspes did more damage. Herod. iii. 150.
↑ 3Jeremiah 50:4
Ver. 4. Weeping for joy and compunction. Israel returns, as well as Juda. C. ---
Thus Joseph wept when he beheld his brethren. Gen. xlii. 24. W.
↑ 4Jeremiah 50:5
Ver. 5. Covenant. They renewed the old one under Nehemias, and never publicly broke it, as they had done. Yet the covenant of Christ is more properly meant.
↑ 5Jeremiah 50:6
Ver. 6. Shepherds; kings, (C.) and false prophets. H.
↑ 6Jeremiah 50:7
Ver. 7. Not sinned: the Jews were such notorious offenders. But in what had they injured the Chaldees? --- Beauty. Heb. "dwelling or fold."
↑ 7Jeremiah 50:8
Ver. 8. Kids; rams. This comparison was not ignoble. Go boldly out of the city, before it be besieged.
↑ 8Jeremiah 50:9
Ver. 9. Nations. Cyrus had Armenians, &c. in his army. C. --- Thence, by the bed of the Euphrates, the waters of which were mostly let out into the marshes.
Thus the city was taken, while the people were feasting. Herod. i. 191. ---
Aristotle (Pol. iii. 3.) says, three days passed before all the citizens were apprised of its fate, it was so extensive: but this is incredible. If we follow the account of Berosus, Cyrus routed Nabonides, who fled to Borsippe, while he took Babylon and demolished the outer walls. Jos. c. Ap. i. C. --- North, with respect to Babylon. W.
--- The Persians lay rather to the south, and to the east of Palestine, (H.) if our maps be accurate.
C.
↑ 9Jeremiah 50:11
Ver. 11. Bulls. You have rioted in Juda, and treated my people cruelly. H. --- In Hebrew four verbs have improperly i for v; but C. li. 34. v supplants i five times.
Kennicott.
↑ 11Jeremiah 50:12
Ver. 12. Dust, like a suppliant. Is. xlvii. 1. C. --- Dry. The country shall be equally unfruitful.
The waters of the Euphrates being let off, gave a passage to the enemy. v. 9. H.
--- Babylon soon lost its splendour. C. --- Vologeses completed its ruin. Pliny vi. 26. --- It ceased to be the metropolis or mother city. H. --- The whole country was laid waste. W.
↑ 12Jeremiah 50:15
Ver. 15. Hand, to form leagues; or she faints, (Sept.) and submits. Lam. v. 6.
↑ 15Jeremiah 50:16
Ver. 16. Harvest. Such were usually unmolested. C. --- Babylon was so large, that people sowed corn within the walls. Curt. v. --- The environs were well cultivated. Pliny xviii. 17. --- Dove, or the destroyer; for the Hebrew word signifies either the one or the other. Ch. C. xxv. 38. and xlvi.
16. --- Lit. "from before the sword of the dove." The power of Babylon is no more. H. --- The king is compared to a dove, for his swiftness; or God is meek, though terrible. W. --- Land. The other nations were set free as well as the Jews. C.
↑ 16Jeremiah 50:17
Ver. 17. Bones. He completely ruined the nation, which the Assyrians had left.
H. --- They led the ten tribes away, and the Chaldees took the rest. 4 K. xviii.
and xxv. W.
↑ 17Jeremiah 50:18
Ver. 18. Assyria. This monarchy was subdued by Nabopolasser.
↑ 18Jeremiah 50:19
Ver. 19. Israel; the ten tribes, whose country is specified.
↑ 19Jeremiah 50:20
Ver. 20. None. Idolatry shall not be re-established.
↑ 20Jeremiah 50:21
Ver. 21. Rulers: the most potent empire of Babylon. --- All. Heb. "anathematize them and their posterity."
↑ 21Jeremiah 50:23
Ver. 23. Hammer. The violent injustice of the Chaldees is thus entitled.
↑ 23Jeremiah 50:24
Ver. 24. Aware. Men seemed to rise out of the earth. v. 9.
↑ 24Jeremiah 50:25
Ver. 25. Armoury. Fire and war are the Lord's weapons. Job xxxviii. 22. ---
Work: punishment.
C. xlviii. 10.
↑ 25Jeremiah 50:26
Ver. 26. That. Heb. "her granaries; trample on her as on heaps of corn, destroy," &c. He alludes to the custom of oxen trampling out the corn. C. li. 33.
↑ 26Jeremiah 50:28
Ver. 28. Voice. I hear the captives proclaiming this at their return.
↑ 28Jeremiah 50:30
Ver. 30. Peace, in the grave; (C.) or shall submit quietly. 1 Mac. i. 3. H.
↑ 30Jeremiah 50:31
Ver. 31. Proud. So the Chaldees are often styled in the Psalms. C. --- The prophet addresses Nabuchodonosor, or rather Baltassar, (M.) under whom the city was taken, (Jos. &c.) by Darius and Cyrus. He may be the Nabonides of Berosus, the question is so much perplexed. Yet "we are convinced that Darius reigned at Babylon before Cyrus, and took the city after the death of Baltassar." C. --- Most commentators are of a difficult opinion. H.
↑ 31Jeremiah 50:33
Ver. 33. Israel. Samaria had been destroyed forty-four years before the fourth of Joakim, from which period many of Juda had been captives seventy years, till Cyrus became their deliverer, and chastised the Chaldees. C. --- Both kingdoms had been oppressed by a strong hand, till a stronger, even God himself, delivered them. W.
↑ 33Jeremiah 50:34
Ver. 34. Name. He gives victory to Cyrus. Thus the Lord directs all for the sake of his elect, and laughs at the vain projects of men. C.
↑ 34Jeremiah 50:35
Ver. 35. Wise men. They were styled Chaldees, and inhabited a certain part of the city, being employed in astronomical and mathematical observations. They disapproved of those who cast nativities. Strabo xvi.
↑ 35Jeremiah 50:36
Ver. 36. Diviners. Heb. "impostors." They were nowhere more plentiful. Dan. i.
20. Fortune-tellers were consulted on every occasion. The eastern nations are still much addicted to this superstition.
↑ 36Jeremiah 50:38
Ver. 38. Drought. Cyrus almost drained the Euphrates. C. li. 42. Is. xxi. ---
Things, fit to terrify children. Bar. vi. 14. C. --- Prot. "they are made upon their idols." H.
↑ 38Jeremiah 50:39
Ver. 39. Fig-fauns. Monsters of the desert, or demons in monstrous shapes; such as the ancients called fauns and satyrs: and as they imagined them to live upon wild figs, they called them fauni-ficarii, or fig-fauns. Ch. --- Maldonat reads sicariis, "ruffians." Sixtus V. and S. Jerom, (in Is.
xiii. 21.) have fatuis, "foolish wild men." Heb. "the Tsiim iwth the iim shall dwell there, and the daughters of the Yahana (H. swans) shall there reside," or "
fishermen among the rushes shall dwell," &c. --- Ever. Its situation is unknown.
There is still a town of the same name, but not in the same place.
↑ 39Jeremiah 50:42
Ver. 42. Cruel. The Medes will not spare for money. v. 3. Is. xiii. 7.
↑ 42Jeremiah 50:43
Ver. 43. King. Baltassar, (though he was succeeded by Darius) or Nabonides. v.
31. C.
↑ 43Jeremiah 50:44
Ver. 44. And beautiful. Heb. "habitation." H. --- He will rush into the fold. C. xlix.
19. C. ---
The king of Babylon had ruined many. Others shall destroy him, rushing on like the Jordan. W.
↑ 44License: Notes by Fr. George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), from the Douay-Rheims Bible with Haydock's commentary (first ed. Thomas Haydock, Manchester/Dublin, 1811–1814; New York: Edward Dunigan & Brother, 1859); New Testament notes compiled with Fr. Benedict Rayment. Public domain. Digital text: "The Haydock Bible", Internet Archive (archive.org/details/TheHaydockBible), uploaded 2011 under the Public Domain Mark. · Credits and licenses