Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Jeremiah 50:13
Because of the wrath of the LORD it shall not be inhabited, but it shall be wholly desolate: every one that goeth by Babylon shall be astonished, and hiss at all her plagues.
13. Cp. chs. Jer 18:16, Jer 19:8, Jer 25:9; Jer 25:11, Jer 49:17, with notes.
be inhabited ] See on Jer 17:25.
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It shall not be inhabited, but it shall be wholly desolate; the same thing was threatened against Babylon, Isa 13:20, It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation. Shall be astonished, and hiss at all her plagues: it seemeth to be a proverbial speech made use of to express the miserable state of a place; we had it before, Jer 49:17, applied to Edom. It is according to the threatening, Deu 28:37. See Jer 25:9,11; 29:18; 42:18; Eze 5:15.
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13. (Isa13:20).
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Because of the wrath of the Lord, it shall not be inhabited,…. That is, Babylon; which the Targum expresses,
“because thou, Babylon, hast provoked the Lord;”
by their idolatry, luxury, ill usage of his people, and profanation of the vessels of the sanctuary; therefore it should be destroyed, and left without an inhabitant in it:
but it shall be wholly desolate; as it now is. Pausanias says o, in his time there was nothing but a wall remaining; and Jerom p says, he had it from a brother Elamite, or Persian, that Babylon was then a park or place for royal hunting, and that beasts of every kind were kept within its walls: of mystical Babylon, see Re 16:19;
everyone that goeth by Babylon shall be astonished, and hiss at all her plagues; any traveller that had seen it in its glory would now be astonished to see the desolation of it; and, by way of scorn and derision, hiss at the judgments of God upon it, and rejoice at them, and shake their head, as the Targum.
o Arcadica, sive l. 8. p. 509. p Comment. in Isaiam, fol. 23. C.
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Jeremiah again repeats that the destruction of Babylon would be an evidence of God’s vengeance, because the Chaldeans had unjustly raged against the Church. But the name of God seems also to have been designedly mentioned, that the faithful might more readily receive this prophecy: for had they thought that what Jeremiah said came from man, they would have hardly believed his words, for what he said exceeded the comprehension of men. He then mentioned the indignation of God, that the faithful might know that it was absurd to form an opinion concerning the ruin of Babylon according to the present aspect of things, because God would do a work there beyond the common course of things.
He then says, that it would become a waste, so that every one passing through it would be astonished, and yet would not pity it. This way of speaking often occurs in the Prophets, when they wish to describe a waste exceeding what is common. In the meantime, what follows ought to be noticed, that this arrangement would excite no commiseration, but rather mockery, which the Prophet denotes by the word hissing. It then follows, —
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(13) Every one that goeth . . .We note the reproduction of the formula of Jer. 19:8; Jer. 49:17.
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Jer 50:13. Because of the wrath of the Lord, it shall not be inhabited See Isa 13:19 to which the following remarkable passage from Rollin’s Ancient History, vol. 2: book 4: may be added: “After its capture by Cyrus, Babylon ceased to be a royal city; the kings of Persia choosing some other place for their residence. The Macedonians, who succeeded the Persians, did not only neglect it, but built Seleucia in its neighbourhood, on purpose to draw away its inhabitants, and caused it to be deserted: the new kings of Persia completed its ruin by building Ctesiphon, which carried away all the remainder of its inhabitants. She was so totally forsaken, that, in the time of Pausanias, nothing remained but the bare walls. The kings of Persia, finding the place deserted, converted it into a park, chace, or menagerie, in which they kept wild beasts for hunting. But it was still too much that the walls of Babylon were standing: at length they fell down in several places, and never were repaired. The animals which were kept for the pleasure of the Persian monarchs, abandoned the place, and were succeeded by serpents and scorpions. In the time of Alexander the Great, the river had quitted its ordinary channel by means of the sluices made by Cyrus; which sluices and outlets being ill-stopped, had occasioned a great inundation, and the place where Babylon stood was covered by an inaccessible pool. By all these changes Babylon became an absolute desart, and all the country round fell into the same state of horror and desolation; so that the most able geographers at this day cannot ascertain the place where it stood.”
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Jer 50:13 Because of the wrath of the LORD it shall not be inhabited, but it shall be wholly desolate: every one that goeth by Babylon shall be astonished, and hiss at all her plagues.
Ver. 13. It shall not be inhabited, but be wholly desolate. ] Babylon standeth not now in the same place as of old, nor is there hardly any ruins of the old city remaining, as travellers tell us. Pausanias saith that in his time there was nought to be seen of it but the walls only; and Jerome saith a that in his it was turned into a park for deer. Omne in medio spatium solitude est. See on Jer 50:3 .
a Lib. viii. in Isa. xiii.
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not be inhabited. Not yet fulfilled. Compare 1Pe 5:13.
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Because: Zec 1:15
every: Jer 18:16, Jer 19:8, Jer 25:12, Jer 49:17, Jer 51:37, Job 27:23, Isa 14:4-17, Lam 2:15, Lam 2:16, Hab 2:6-18, Zep 2:15
Reciprocal: 1Ki 9:8 – at 2Ch 7:21 – astonishment Isa 13:20 – General Jer 50:3 – which Jer 50:26 – destroy Jer 50:39 – General Jer 51:26 – shall not Jer 51:29 – every Jer 51:62 – to cut Eze 24:3 – Set
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Jer 50:13. In reading the historical quotation cited in verse 3 in connection with the several passages predicting the overthrow of Babylon, care should be taken to distinguish between the Babylonian Empire as a whole and Its capital as a city. The former was to be taken over by another power but left intact for the possession of the victorious one, but the latter as a city was to be destroyed and never rebuilt. All predictions as to a desert and an uninhabited spot apply to the city only.
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50:13 Because of the wrath of the LORD it shall not be inhabited, but it shall be wholly desolate: every one that goeth by Babylon shall be astonished, {n} and hiss at all her plagues.
(n) In sign of contempt and disdain.