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Selected Verse: Jeremiah 51:25 - Strong Concordance
Verse |
Translation |
Text |
Jer 51:25 |
Strong Concordance |
Behold, I am against thee, O destroying [04889] mountain [02022], saith [05002] the LORD [03068], which destroyest [07843] all the earth [0776]: and I will stretch out [05186] mine hand [03027] upon thee, and roll thee down [01556] from the rocks [05553], and will make [05414] thee a burnt [08316] mountain [02022]. |
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King James |
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. |
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] |
destroying mountain--called so, not from its position, for it lay low (Jer 51:13; Gen 11:2, Gen 11:9), but from its eminence above other nations, many of which it had "destroyed"; also, because of its lofty palaces, towers, hanging gardens resting on arches, and walls, fifty royal cubits broad and two hundred high.
roll thee down from the rocks--that is, from thy rock-like fortifications and walls.
burnt mountain-- (Rev 8:8). A volcano, which, after having spent itself in pouring its "destroying" lava on all the country around, falls into the vacuum and becomes extinct, the surrounding "rocks" alone marking where the crater had been. Such was the appearance of Babylon after its destruction, and as the pumice stones of the volcano are left in their place, being unfit for building, so Babylon should never rise from its ruins. |
Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
O destroying mountain - A volcano which by its flames and hot lava-streams "destroys the whole land."
A burnt mountain - A burned-out mountain, of which the crater alone remains. Such was Babylon. Its destructive energy under Nebuchadnezzar was like the first outbreak of volcanic fires; its rapid collapse under his successors was as the same volcano when its flames have burned out, and its crater is falling in upon itself. |
The Scofield Bible Commentary, by Cyrus Ingerson Scofield, [1917] |
O destroying mountain
See note 2 on Babylon, (Isa 13:1); (Zac 4:7);
(See Scofield) - (Isa 13:1). |
Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
Mountain - Babylon was very high for its power, and greatness, and had very high walls and towers, that it looked at a distance like an high rocky mountain. They had destroyed many people. Burnt - Thy cities and towers which appear like a mountain shall be burnt. |
Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
O destroying mountain - An epithet which he applies to the Babylonish government; it is like a burning mountain, which, by vomiting continual streams of burning lava inundates and destroys all towns, villages fields, etc., in its vicinity.
And roll thee down from the rocks - I will tumble thee from the rocky base on which thou restest. The combustible matter in thy bowels being exhausted, thou shalt appear as an extinguished crater; and the stony mutter which thou castest out shall not be of sufficient substance to make a foundation stone for solidity, or a corner stone for beauty, Jer 51:26. Under this beautiful and most expressive metaphor, the prophet shows the nature of the Babylonish government; setting the nations on fire, deluging and destroying them by its troops, till at last, exhausted, it tumbles down, is extinguished, and leaves nothing as a basis to erect a new form of government on; but is altogether useless, like the cooled lava, which is, properly speaking, fit for no human purpose. |
8 And [2532] the second [1208] angel [32] sounded [4537], and [2532] as it were [5613] a great [3173] mountain [3735] burning [2545] with fire [4442] was cast [906] into [1519] the sea [2281]: and [2532] the third part [5154] of the sea [2281] became [1096] blood [129];
9 Therefore is the name of it [08034] called [07121] Babel [0894]; because the LORD [03068] did there confound [01101] the language [08193] of all the earth [0776]: and from thence did [06327] the LORD [03068] scatter them abroad [06327] upon the face [06440] of all the earth [0776].
2 And it came to pass, as they journeyed [05265] from the east [06924], that they found [04672] a plain [01237] in the land [0776] of Shinar [08152]; and they dwelt [03427] there.
13 O thou that dwellest [07931] [07931] upon many [07227] waters [04325], abundant [07227] in treasures [0214], thine end [07093] is come [0935], and the measure [0520] of thy covetousness [01215].
1 The burden [04853] of Babylon [0894], which Isaiah [03470] the son [01121] of Amoz [0531] did see [02372].
7 Who art thou, O great [01419] mountain [02022]? before [06440] Zerubbabel [02216] thou shalt become a plain [04334]: and he shall bring forth [03318] the headstone [068] [07222] thereof with shoutings [08663], crying, Grace [02580], grace [02580] unto it.
1 The burden [04853] of Babylon [0894], which Isaiah [03470] the son [01121] of Amoz [0531] did see [02372].
26 And they shall not take [03947] of thee a stone [068] for a corner [06438], nor a stone [068] for foundations [04146]; but thou shalt be desolate [08077] for ever [05769], saith [05002] the LORD [03068].