Jeremiah 50:9

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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.

I will raise

They shall

Jeremiah 50:14

None

2 Samuel 1:22

Isaiah 13:18

General references

Jeremiah 30:16

Jeremiah 50:41

Bible References

I will raise

For a nation from the north will attack Babylon. It will lay her land waste. People and animals will flee out of it. No one will inhabit it.'

I will make you serve your enemies in a land that you know nothing about. For my anger is like a fire that will burn against you."

The Lord says, "I will cause a destructive wind to blow against Babylon and the people who inhabit Babylonia.

In the first year of King Cyrus of Persia, in order to fulfill the Lord's message spoken through Jeremiah, the Lord stirred the mind of King Cyrus of Persia. He disseminated a proclamation throughout his entire kingdom, announcing in a written edict the following:

On a bare hill raise a signal flag, shout to them, wave your hand, so they might enter the gates of the princes!

I have received a distressing message: "The deceiver deceives, the destroyer destroys. Attack, you Elamites! Lay siege, you Medes! I will put an end to all the groaning!"

I have stirred up one out of the north and he advances, one from the eastern horizon who prays in my name. He steps on rulers as if they were clay, like a potter treading the clay.

This is what the Lord says to his chosen one, to Cyrus, whose right hand I hold in order to subdue nations before him, and disarm kings, to open doors before him, so gates remain unclosed:

They shall

"Take up your battle positions all around Babylon, all you soldiers who are armed with bows. Shoot all your arrows at her! Do not hold any back! For she has sinned against the Lord.

None

From the blood of the slain, from the fat of warriors, the bow of Jonathan was not turned away. The sword of Saul never returned empty.

Their arrows will cut young men to ribbons; they have no compassion on a person's offspring, they will not look with pity on children.

General references

But all who destroyed you will be destroyed. All your enemies will go into exile. Those who plundered you will be plundered. I will cause those who pillaged you to be pillaged.

"Look! An army is about to come from the north. A mighty nation and many kings are stirring into action in faraway parts of the earth.