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Jeremiah 51 Summary
Babylon's Judgment Decreed
God declares He will raise a destroying wind against Babylon and empty her land through famine; the nations have been made drunk by her wine but now she is suddenly fallen and destroyed. God stirs up the Medes' spirit to destroy Babylon as vengeance for His temple, and calls Israel to flee and return to declare His righteousness in Zion. God's judgment is absolute: Babylon's walls will be utterly broken, her mighty men taken, her princes made drunk unto perpetual sleep, and she will become heaps and desolation. Jeremiah commanded Seraiah to read a scroll of Babylon's doom in that city, bind a stone to it, and cast it into the Euphrates as a sign that Babylon will sink and not rise.
Key themes
Key verses
Jeremiah 51:1
“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;”
Jeremiah 51:8
“Babylon is suddenly fallen and destroyed: howl for her; take balm for her pain, if so be she may be healed.”
Jeremiah 51:58
“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.”
Jeremiah 51:64
“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.”
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