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Selected Verse: Jeremiah 51:43 - King James
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Jer 51:43 |
King James |
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. |
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| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
| Her cities--the cities, her dependencies. So, "Jerusalem and the cities thereof" (Jer 34:1). Or, the "cities" are the inner and outer cities, the two parts into which Babylon was divided by the Euphrates [GROTIUS]. |
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
A wilderness - Or, a desert of sand.
A land wherein - Rather, "a land - no man shall dwell in them (i. e., its cities), and no human being shall pass through them." |
1 The word which came unto Jeremiah from the LORD, when Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and all his army, and all the kingdoms of the earth of his dominion, and all the people, fought against Jerusalem, and against all the cities thereof, saying,