Jeremiah 50-51 The Fiftieth Prophecy of Jeremiah

Jeremiah 50-51

The Fiftieth Prophecy of Jeremiah

1.  The word that the Lord spake against Babylon and against the land of the Chaldeans by
Jeremiah the prophet.

Comment: If you were to look on a map, Iraq is the modern day Babylon and south Iraq is the land of the Chaldeans. Notice the Lord spake against Babylon, not for it.

2.  Declare ye among the nations, and publish, and set up a standard; publish, and conceal
not: say, Babylon is taken, Bel is confounded, Merodach is broken in pieces; her idols are
confounded, her images are broken in pieces.

Comment: The Lord is angry at the land of Babylon, translated (confusion), for its idolatry, so they are going to war (set up a standard or plant your countries flag). Compare to
Rev.14:8, showing that this prophecy is still future.

3.  For out of the north there cometh up a nation against her, which shall make her land
desolate, and none shall dwell therein: they shall remove, they shall depart, both man and
beast.

Comment: This north country is Medo-Persia or modern day Iran, also a type for anti-christ.
If you look at Iraq today, the U.S. Has inserted a leader, (Jalal Talabani), Iran has always
disputed that Iraq is their land, (Iran-Iraq War, 1980-1988).

4.  In those days, and in that time, saith the Lord, the children of Israel shall come, they and
the children of Judah together, going and weeping: they shall go, and seek the Lord their God.

Comment: This prophecy refers to the future. Israel (twelve tribes), which most of them have
been scattered around the world today will join together with Judah, Ezek 37:16-28. This will
be at the return of Christ and when God will set up His kingdom on earth.

5.  They shall ask the way to Zion with their faces thitherward, saying, Come, and let us join
ourselves to the Lord in a perpetual covenant that shall not be forgotten.

Comment: These next few verses almost repeat the aforementioned scripture of Ezek 37:
16-28. As a side note, this verse also tells us that Jeremiah was in Egypt at this writing.

 
6.  My people hath 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 restingplace.

Comment: Check out Matt 10:6, 15, 24. Also God is calling for "my people", Hosea 1, trying
to get them away from idolatry and declaring He is their restingplace which they have
forgotten.

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.

Comment: If you look throughout history many leaders or Nations have tried to take that land or came from that land to take other lands. Ironically we are their right now, and why do they say we offend not? Because they (nations/leaders) think that what they are doing or have done is justified.

8.  Remove out of the midst of Babylon, and go forth out of the land of the Chaldeans, and be as the he goats before the flocks.

Comment: God is saying get out of that land and remember Babylon means "confusion",
come out of confusion.

9.  For, lo, I will raise and cause to come up against Babylon an assembly of great nations
from the north country: and they shall set themselves in array against her; from thence she
shall be taken: their arrows shall be as of a mighty expert man; none shall return in vain.

Comment: This prophecy is coming to past at this time.

10.  And Chaldea shall be a spoil: all that spoil her shall be satisfied, saith the Lord.

11.  Because ye were glad, because ye rejoiced, O ye destroyers of mine heritage, because
ye are grown fat as the heifer at grass, and bellow as bulls;

Comment: Many leaders have become very wealthy on oil in that region and have oppressed their people and have done it in the name of religion in most cases.

12.  Your mother shall be sore confounded; she that bare you shall be ashamed: behold, the
hindermost of the nations shall be a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert.

Comment: Mother here refers to a nurturing heritage, not forefathers because they have done evil. God is trying to relay the care of a mother to her children.

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.

14.  Put yourselves in array against Babylon round about: all ye that bend the bow, shoot at
her, spare no arrows: for she hath sinned against the Lord.

Comment: A declaration of War. Spiritual and flesh. War in Heaven and on Earth begins.

15.  Shout against her round about: she hath given her hand: her foundations are fallen, her
walls are thrown down: for it is the vengeance of the Lord: take vengeance upon her; as she
hath done, do unto her.

Comment: God is going to allow Satan and man to bring themselves down and ironically fulfill His Will. Of course God always has full control.

16.  Cut off the sower from Babylon, and him that handleth the sickle in the time of harvest: for fear of the oppressing sword they shall turn every one to his people, and they shall flee every one to his own land.

Comment: I believe there is a time segment associated to this verse. God cuts off the sower
(he who farms, literally and symbolically he who plants good seeds). God cuts off he who
handles the sickle "in the time of harvest" (again the farmer, literally and symbolically the
Angels or the Reapers, Rev. 14:14-20, this scripture refers to the time when Christ returns, so we know this is well before that. When you begin to look at Nations today especially Iraq it shows we are not far off to Christs return.

17.  Israel is a scattered sheep; the lions have driven him away: first the king of Assyria hath
devoured him; and last this Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon hath broken his bones.

Comment: Israel or the Twelve Tribes are scattered, check out Daniel 12:7. Ten of those
Tribes crossed over the Trans Caucasian Mountains and settled in Europe and some
migrated to the USA. Two of those Tribes stayed in the Middle East. Nebuchadrezzar is a
type for the anti-christ or Satan breaking those scattered sheep with lies and deception.

18.  Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will punish the king of Babylon and his land, as I have punished the king of Assyria.

Comment: Ezekiel 28:16-19, these are all names or types for Satan as anti-christ, in Ezekiel
he is called king of Tyre (fake rock).

19.  And I will bring Israel again to his habitation, and he shall feed on Carmel and Bashan,
and his soul shall be satisfied upon mount Ephraim and Gilead.

Comment: When Christ returns he will join Israel back together and we will feed spiritually on the fruit of the land.

20.  In those days, and in that time, saith the Lord, the iniquity of Israel shall be sought for, and there shall be none; and the sins of Judah, and they shall not be found: for I will pardon them whom I reserve.

Comment: Who does God reserve? His election or the set aside ones who God has judged
in the first Earth age.

21.  Go up against the land of Merathaim, even against it, and against the inhabitants of
Pekod: waste and utterly destroy after them, saith the Lord, and do according to all that I have commanded thee.

Comment: Merathaim means "double rebellion" and is another name for Babylon. Pekod
means "visitation".

22.  A sound of battle is in the land, and of great destruction.

23.  How is the hammer of the whole earth cut asunder and broken! How is Babylon become a desolation among the nations!

Comment: Hammer is the powers of man and leaders of the world.

24.  I have laid a snare for thee, and thou art also taken, O Babylon, and thou wast not aware: thou art found, and also caught, because thou hast striven against the Lord.

25.  The Lord hath opened his armoury, and hath brought forth the weapons of his
indignation: for this is the work of the Lord God of hosts in the land of the Chaldeans.

Comment: In the proceeding verses you see that Gods weapons are His election putting forth His Word.

26.  Come against her from the utmost border, open her storehouses: cast her up as heaps,
and destroy her utterly: let nothing of her be left.

27.  Slay all her bullocks; let them go down to the slaughter: woe unto them! for their day is
come, the time of their visitation.

28.  The voice of them that 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.

29.  Call together the archers against Babylon: all ye that bend the bow, camp against it
round about; let none thereof escape: recompense her according to her work; according to
all that she hath done, do unto her: for she hath been proud against the Lord, against the holy one of Israel.

Comment: Again spiritual war and a literal flesh war.

30.  Therefore shall her young men fall in the streets, and all her men of war shall be cut off in that day, saith the Lord.

31.  Behold, I am against thee, O thou most proud, saith the Lord God of hosts: for thy day is come, the time that I will visit thee.

32.  And the most proud shall stumble and fall, and none shall raise him up: and I will kindle a fire in his cities, and it shall devour all round about him.

 
33.  Thus saith the Lord of hosts; The children of Israel and the children of Judah were
oppressed together: and all that took them captives held them fast; they refused to let them
go.

34.  Their Redeemer is strong; the Lord of hosts is his name: he shall throughly plead their
cause, that he may give rest to the land, and disquiet the inhabitants of Babylon.

35.  A sword is upon the Chaldeans, saith the Lord, and upon the inhabitants of Babylon, and upon her princes, and upon her wise men.

36.  A sword is upon the liars; and they shall dote: a sword is upon her mighty men; and they shall be dismayed.

37.  A sword is upon their horses, and upon their chariots, and upon all the mingled people
that are in the midst of her; and they shall become as women: a sword is upon her treasures; and they shall be robbed.

Comment: Mingled people means those of the night, and could even mean Arabians.

38.  A drought is upon her waters; and they shall be dried up: for it is the land of graven
images, and they are mad upon their idols.

39.  Therefore the wild beasts of the desert with the wild beasts of the islands shall dwell
there, and the owls shall dwell therein: and it shall be no more inhabited for ever; neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation.

40.  As God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbour cities thereof, saith the
Lord; so shall no man abide there, neither shall any son of man dwell therein.

41.  Behold, a people shall come from the north, and a great nation, and many kings shall be raised up from the coasts of the earth.

Comment: These people are none other then the fallen angels. Jude 1:10-13, Rev. 9:7-11,
Joel 2: 4-11, in Joel 4:11 he calls them His army, so again God is in full control.

42.  They shall hold the bow and the lance: they are cruel, and will not shew mercy: their voice shall roar like the sea, and they shall ride upon horses, every one put in array, like a man to the battle, against thee, O daughter of Babylon.

43.  The king of Babylon hath heard the report of them, and his hands waxed feeble: anguish took hold of him, and pangs as of a woman in travail.

44.  Behold, he shall come up like a lion from the swelling of Jordan unto the habitation of the strong: but I will make them suddenly run away from her: and who is a chosen man, that I may appoint over her? for who is like me? and who will appoint me the time? and who is that shepherd that will stand before me?

Comment: Only one who can fill all these answers, Jesus.

45.  Therefore hear ye the counsel of the Lord, that he hath taken against Babylon; and his
purposes, that he hath purposed against the land of the Chaldeans: surely the least of the
flock shall draw them out: surely he shall make their habitation desolate with them.

46.  At the noise of the taking of Babylon the earth is moved, and the cry is heard among the nations.


Jeremiah 51- (Isaiah 13 coincides with these chapters)

1.  Thus saith the Lord; Behold, I will raise up against Babylon, and against them that dwell in the midst of them that rise up against me, a destroying wind;

Comment: God will raise up against Babylon "confusion", against those who confuse His
children. This is directly speaking to the false teachers, who even claim to be Christians. The destroying wind is "ruach" or the Holy Spirit.

2.  And will send unto Babylon fanners, that shall fan her, and shall empty her land: for in the day of trouble they shall be against her round about.

Comment: What is a fanner? Someone who fans a flame already kindled. You could look at
this literally "Iraq" or symbolically "false teachers". In Iraq their has been many wars over this region, example (Iran/Iraq war 1980-1988) and that's just one that I mention. That land has been the stage for so called world dominance "oil, or democracy" etc. We know the United Nations have been fanning many flames for years in the world, let alone recently in Iraq and Iran (nuclear sanctions).

3.  Against him that bendeth let the archer bend his bow, and against him that lifteth himself
up in his brigandine: and spare ye not her young men; destroy ye utterly all her host.

4.  Thus the slain shall fall in the land of the Chaldeans, and they that are thrust through in her streets.

Comment: The land of the Chaldeans is modern day lower Iraq or Kuwait.

5.  For Israel hath not been forsaken, nor Judah of his God, of the Lord of hosts; though their land was filled with sin against the holy One of Israel.

Comment: Remember who Israel is, the Twelve Tribes, Ten Tribes went to Europe then some to the USA, and Judah stayed in the geographical area of Israel. Ezekiel 37:17-28.

6.  Flee out of the midst of Babylon, and deliver every man his soul: be not cut off in her
iniquity; for this is the time of the Lord's vengeance; he will render unto her a recompence.

7.  Babylon hath been a golden cup in the Lord's hand, that made all the earth drunken: the
nations have drunken of her wine; therefore the nations are mad.
Comment: Rev. 18:1-9

8.  Babylon is suddenly fallen and destroyed: howl for her; take balm for her pain, if so be she may be healed.

9.  We would have healed Babylon, but she is not healed: forsake her, and let us go every
one into his own country: for her judgment reacheth unto heaven, and is lifted up even to the skies.

10.  The Lord hath brought forth our righteousness: come, and let us declare in Zion the work of the Lord our God.

Comment: This verse and the prior verses are at the Lords Day, the destruction of Babylon.

11.  Make bright the arrows; gather the shields: the Lord hath raised up the spirit of the kings
of the Medes: for his device is against Babylon, to destroy it; because it is the vengeance of
the Lord, the vengeance of his temple.

Comment: Now this verse backs up in time a bit to just prior to the Lords Day. The kings of
the Medes is Iran and as I mentioned earlier it has always been in the hearts of the Persians
(Medes- Iran) to rule Iraq or even further the world under Islamic rule.

12.  Set up the standard upon the walls of Babylon, make the watch strong, set up the
watchmen, prepare the ambushes: for the Lord hath both devised and done that which he
spake against the inhabitants of Babylon.

Comment: This is a declaration of war, so Iran is going to push against Israel and the U.S.
just before the Lords Day. Today Iran runs weapons, ammo and bombs to the terrorists who
are fighting our troops. In recent years they have been developing plutonium to create nuclear bombs and you can be assured they will. There are world powers assisting them and it should be interesting if Israel will have enough and bomb their nuclear facilities.

13.  O thou that dwellest upon many waters, abundant in treasures, thine end is come, and
the measure of thy covetousness.

14.  The Lord of hosts hath sworn by himself, saying, Surely I will fill thee with men, as with
caterpillers; and they shall lift up a shout against thee.

Comment: The caterpillars are one of the stages of the Locusts, check out the study on The
Locust Army.

15.  He hath made the earth by his power, he hath established the world by his wisdom, and
hath stretched out the heaven by his understanding.

Comment: God is declaring His mighty power and He is very angry with "confusion" and the
war over this land.

16.  When he uttereth his voice, there is a multitude of waters in the heavens; and he causeth the vapours to ascend from the ends of the earth: he maketh lightnings with rain, and bringeth forth the wind out of his treasures.

Comment: What are these waters? Rev. 17:15, of course here he is talking about the
peoples in Heaven. The wind is His Holy Spirit.

17.  Every man is brutish by his knowledge; every founder is confounded by the graven
image: for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.

Comment: Flesh man or woman who has no knowledge of the True Word of God, or studies
and I emphasize studies His Word with understanding. They listen to some man who claims
to be Christian even Muslims who worship idols and not Christ, or some Christian based
religions that pray to statues. The first three Commandments of the Ten are against these
things.

18.  They are vanity, the work of errors: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.

 
19.  The portion of Jacob is not like them; for he is the former of all things: and Israel is the
rod of his inheritance: the Lord of hosts is his name.

Comment: Here God is speaking of those who do follow Him, His election (set aside ones).

20.  Thou art my battle axe and weapons of war: for with thee will I break in pieces the
nations, and with thee will I destroy kingdoms;

Comment: God is calling His election to action, and are His weapons for this spiritual war.

21.  And with thee will I break in pieces the horse and his rider; and with thee will I break in
pieces the chariot and his rider;

Comment: Remember who these are that ride on horses, the fallen angels. Rev. 9, Joel 2.

22.  With thee also will I break in pieces man and woman; and with thee will I break in pieces old and young; and with thee will I break in pieces the young man and the maid;

23.  I will also break in pieces with thee the shepherd and his flock; and with thee will I break
in pieces the husbandman and his yoke of oxen; and with thee will I break in pieces captains and rulers.

Comment: These shepherds are the false teachers. The captains and rulers are our leaders
of the Nations.

24.  And I will render unto Babylon and to all the inhabitants of Chaldea all their evil that they
have done in Zion in your sight, saith the Lord.

Comment: In this verse He literally says in your sight, this directly refers to flesh man seeing
these things happen, so again it sets a time element.

25.  Behold, I am against thee, O destroying mountain, saith the Lord, which destroyest all the earth: and I will stretch out mine hand upon thee, and roll thee down from the rocks, and will make thee a burnt mountain.

Comment: Mountain = Nation (Babylon).

26.  And they shall not take of thee a stone for a corner, nor a stone for foundations; but thou shalt be desolate for ever, saith the Lord.

Comment: This Stone is none other than Jesus Christ. Check out Eph: 2:20 and
1Peter 2:4-8

27.  Set ye up a standard in the land, blow the trumpet among the nations, prepare the
nations against her, call together against her the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ashchenaz;
appoint a captain against her; cause the horses to come up as the rough caterpillers.

Comment: Another declaration of war with Turkey or the previous Ottoman Empire who
controlled that region for 1300 years.

28.  Prepare against her the nations with the kings of the Medes, the captains thereof, and all the rulers thereof, and all the land of his dominion.

 
29.  And the land shall tremble and sorrow: for every purpose of the Lord shall be performed
against Babylon, to make the land of Babylon a desolation without an inhabitant.

30.  The mighty men of Babylon have forborn to fight, they have remained in their holds: their might hath failed; they became as women: they have burned her dwellingplaces; her bars are broken.

31.  One post shall run to meet another, and one messenger to meet another, to shew the
king of Babylon that his city is taken at one end,

32.  And that the passages are stopped, and the reeds they have burned with fire, and the
men of war are affrighted.

33.  For thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel; The daughter of Babylon is like a
threshingfloor, it is time to thresh her: yet a little while, and the time of her harvest shall come.

Comment: This daughter is false religions and the time of harvest is the Lords Day.

34.  Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon hath devoured me, he hath crushed me, he hath
made me an empty vessel, he hath swallowed me up like a dragon, he hath filled his belly
with my delicates, he hath cast me out.

Comment: This king of Babylon is Satan, and a dragon? Because one of his names is the
dragon. Rev. 12: 7-9.

35.  The violence done to me and to my flesh be upon Babylon, shall the inhabitant of Zion
say; and my blood upon the inhabitants of Chaldea, shall Jerusalem say.

Comment: Keep your eyes on Jerusalem, it is the barometer of the end times.

36.  Therefore thus saith the Lord; Behold, I will plead thy cause, and take vengeance for
thee; and I will dry up her sea, and make her springs dry.

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

38.  They shall roar together like lions: they shall yell as lions' whelps.

Comment: A young lion crying for his mother.

39.  In their heat I will make their feasts, and I will make them drunken, that they may rejoice, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith the Lord.

Comment: 2Thess. 2:9-12.

40.  I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with he goats.

Comment: These are the people who think the anti-christ or Satan is God or Jesus, 2Thess.
2:4. Their all mixed up.

41.  How is Sheshach taken! and how is the praise of the whole earth surprised! how is
Babylon become an astonishment among the nations!

Comment: Sheshach means "thy fine linen" remember the harlot Babylon.

42.  The sea is come up upon Babylon: she is covered with the multitude of the waves thereof.
Comment: What are symbolic of the sea or waves, Rev. 17:15, "the peoples and nations".

43.  Her cities are a desolation, a dry land, and a wilderness, a land wherein no man
dwelleth, neither doth any son of man pass thereby.

44.  And I will punish Bel in Babylon, and I will bring forth out of his mouth that which he hath swallowed up: and the nations shall not flow together any more unto him: yea, the wall of Babylon shall fall.

45.  My people, go ye out of the midst of her, and deliver ye every man his soul from the fierce anger of the Lord.

Comment: Gods election will deliver some people.

46.  And lest your heart faint, and ye fear for the rumour that shall be heard in the land; a
rumour shall both come one year, and after that in another year shall come a rumour, and
violence in the land, ruler against ruler.

Comment: Matt. 24:6.

47.  Therefore, behold, the days come, that I will do judgment upon the graven images of
Babylon: and her whole land shall be confounded, and all her slain shall fall in the midst of her.

48.  Then the heaven and the earth, and all that is therein, shall sing for Babylon: for the
spoilers shall come unto her from the north, saith the Lord.

Comment: The spoilers or the spoiler is none other than Satan and his fallen angels. The
word spoiler means "devastator or desolater". Dan. 9:27 and Rev. 9:11 look up the words
Apollyon and Abaddon.

49.  As Babylon hath caused the slain of Israel to fall, so at Babylon shall fall the slain of all the earth.

50.  Ye that have escaped the sword, go away, stand not still: remember the Lord afar off,
and let Jerusalem come into your mind.

51.  We are confounded, because we have heard reproach: shame hath covered our faces:
for strangers are come into the sanctuaries of the Lord's house.

52.  Wherefore, behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will do judgment upon her graven images: and through all her land the wounded shall groan.

53.  Though Babylon should mount up to heaven, and though she should fortify the height of
her strength, yet from me shall spoilers come unto her, saith the Lord.

54.  A sound of a cry cometh from Babylon, and great destruction from the land of the
Chaldeans:

55.  Because the Lord hath spoiled Babylon, and destroyed out of her the great voice; when
her waves do roar like great waters, a noise of their voice is uttered:

56.  Because the spoiler is come upon her, even upon Babylon, and her mighty men are
taken, every one of their bows is broken: for the Lord God of recompences shall surely
requite.

57.  And I will make drunk her princes, and her wise men, her captains, and her rulers, and
her mighty men: and they shall sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith the King, whose
name is the Lord of hosts.

58.  Thus saith the Lord of hosts; The broad walls of Babylon shall be utterly broken, and her high gates shall be burned with fire; and the people shall labour in vain, and the folk in the fire, and they shall be weary.

59.  The word which Jeremiah the prophet commanded Seraiah the son of Neriah, the son of Maaseiah, when he went with Zedekiah the king of Judah into Babylon in the fourth year of his reign. And this Seraiah was a quiet prince.

60.  So Jeremiah wrote in a book all the evil that should come upon Babylon, even all these
words that are written against Babylon.

61.  And Jeremiah said to Seraiah, When thou comest to Babylon, and shalt see, and shalt
read all these words;

62.  Then shalt thou say, O Lord, thou hast spoken against this place, to cut it off, that none
shall remain in it, neither man nor beast, but that it shall be desolate for ever.

63.  And it shall be, when thou hast made an end of reading this book, that thou shalt bind a
stone to it, and cast it into the midst of Euphrates:

64.  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.