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Jeremiah 51:49-51
New English Translation
Jeremiah 51:49-51
New English Translation
49 “Babylon must fall[a]
because of the Israelites she has killed,[b]
just as the earth’s mortally wounded fell
because of Babylon.[c]
50 You who have escaped the sword,[d]
go, do not delay.[e]
Remember the Lord in a faraway land.
Think about Jerusalem.[f]
51 ‘We[g] are ashamed because we have been insulted.[h]
Our faces show our disgrace.[i]
For foreigners have invaded
the holy rooms[j] in the Lord’s temple.’
Footnotes
- Jeremiah 51:49 tn The infinitive construct is used here to indicate what is about to take place. See IBHS 610 §36.2.3g.
- Jeremiah 51:49 tn Heb “the slain of Israel.” The words “because of” are supplied in the translation for clarification. The preceding context makes it clear that Babylon would be judged for its atrocities against Israel (see especially 50:33-34; 51:10, 24, 35).
- Jeremiah 51:49 tn The juxtaposition of גַם…גַם (gam…gam), often “both…and,” here indicates correspondence. See BDB 169 s.v. גַּם 4. Appropriately, Babylon will fall slain just as her victims, including God’s covenant people, did.
- Jeremiah 51:50 sn God’s exiled people are told to leave doomed Babylon (see v. 45).
- Jeremiah 51:50 tn Heb “don’t stand.”
- Jeremiah 51:50 tn Heb “let Jerusalem go up upon your heart.” The “heart” is often viewed as the seat of one’s mental faculties and thought life.
- Jeremiah 51:51 sn The exiles lament the way they have been humiliated.
- Jeremiah 51:51 tn Heb “we have heard an insult.”
- Jeremiah 51:51 tn Heb “disgrace covers our face.”
- Jeremiah 51:51 tn Or “holy places, sanctuaries.”
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