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Selected Verse: Jeremiah 51:53 - Strong Concordance
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Jer 51:53 |
Strong Concordance |
Though Babylon [0894] should mount up [05927] to heaven [08064], and though she should fortify [01219] the height [04791] of her strength [05797], yet [0227] from me shall spoilers [07703] come [0935] unto her, saith [05002] the LORD [03068]. |
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King James |
Though Babylon should mount up to heaven, and though she should fortify the height of her strength, yet from me shall spoilers come unto her, saith the LORD. |
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] |
| We are not to measure God's power by what seems to our perceptions natural or probable. Compare Oba 1:4 as to Edom (Amo 9:2). |
| Commentary on the Old Testament, by Carl Friedrich Keil and Franz Delitzsch [1857-78] |
| Babylon shall by no means escape punishment. Even though it mounted up to heaven (cf. Job 20:6; there may, at the same time, be an allusion to Isa 14:12, and possibly also to the tower at Babylon), and תּבצּר, "cut off (i.e., made inaccessible) the height of its strength," i.e., the height in which its strength consists, its lofty wall of defence (probably an allusion to the lofty walls of Babylon; see on Jer 51:58), yet destroyers are to come against it from Jahveh. |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
| Though Babylon should mount up to heaven - Though it were fortified even to the skies, it shall fall by the enemies that I will send against it. |
2 Though they dig [02864] into hell [07585], thence shall mine hand [03027] take [03947] them; though they climb up [05927] to heaven [08064], thence will I bring them down [03381]:
4 Though thou exalt [01361] thyself as the eagle [05404], and though thou set [07760] thy nest [07064] among the stars [03556], thence will I bring thee down [03381], saith [05002] the LORD [03068].
58 Thus saith [0559] the LORD [03068] of hosts [06635]; The broad [07342] walls [02346] of Babylon [0894] shall be utterly [06209] broken [06209], and her high [01364] gates [08179] shall be burned [03341] with fire [0784]; and the people [05971] shall labour [03021] in vain [07385], and the folk [03816] in [01767] the fire [0784], and they shall be weary [03286].
12 How art thou fallen [05307] from heaven [08064], O Lucifer [01966], son [01121] of the morning [07837] [03213] ! how art thou cut down [01438] to the ground [0776], which didst weaken [02522] the nations [01471]!
6 Though his excellency [07863] mount up [05927] to the heavens [08064], and his head [07218] reach [05060] unto the clouds [05645];