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Selected Verse: Jeremiah 51:43 - Strong Concordance
Verse |
Translation |
Text |
Jer 51:43 |
Strong Concordance |
Her cities [05892] are a desolation [08047], a dry [06723] land [0776], and a wilderness [06160], a land [0776] wherein no man [0376] dwelleth [03427], neither doth any son [01121] of man [0120] pass [05674] thereby [02004]. |
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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. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
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 [01697] which came unto Jeremiah [03414] from the LORD [03068], when Nebuchadnezzar [05019] king [04428] of Babylon [0894], and all his army [02428], and all the kingdoms [04467] of the earth [0776] of his dominion [03027] [04475], and all the people [05971], fought [03898] against Jerusalem [03389], and against all the cities [05892] thereof, saying [0559],