Teks -- Jeremiah 50:11 (NET)

50:11 “People of Babylonia, you plundered my people. That made you happy and glad. You frolic about like calves in a pasture. Your joyous sounds are like the neighs of a stallion.

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Wesley: Jer 50:11 - Because

They rejoiced at the ruin of the Jews.

Wesley: Jer 50:11 - Fat

The cause for which Babylon is threatened, was doubtless their luxury of all sorts commonly attending great wealth.

JFB: Jer 50:11

(Isa 47:6).

JFB: Jer 50:11 - grown fat

And so, skip wantonly.

JFB: Jer 50:11 - at grass

Fat and frisky. But there is a disagreement of gender in Hebrew reading thus. The Keri is better: "a heifer threshing"; the strongest were used for threshing, and as the law did not allow their mouth to be muzzled in threshing (Deu 25:4), they waxed wanton with eating.

JFB: Jer 50:11 - bellow as bulls

Rather, "neigh as steeds," literally, "strong ones," a poetical expression for steeds (see on Jer 8:16) [MAURER].

Clarke: Jer 50:11 - As the heifer at grass

As the heifer at grass - Ye were wanton in the desolations ye brought upon Judea.

Calvin: Jer 50:11 - NO PHRASE

God shows here, that though the Chaldeans insolently exulted for a time, yet their joy would not continue; and at the same time he points out the cause of their ruin, even because they dealt so arrogantly with the people of God. He then says in the former clause, Ye exulted and rejoiced in plundering my heritage; and then he adds, Ye became fat (for to be multiplied means here to become fat) as a heifer, well fed, or of the grass; for some think that the word is used for דשאה , deshae; but some render it, “herbified,” or fed on grass; while others derive the word from דוש , dush, to thresh or tread out corn. ⁵⁶ It is then added, Ye neighed like strong horses, or ye bellowed like bulls, as some render the words; for אבירים , abirim, sometimes mean bulls, and sometimes strong horses; and the verb צהל , tzal, means to cry aloud, but is taken sometimes in the sense of neighing, as we have seen in Jer 5:0, “Every one neigheth on his neighbor’s wife;” the Prophet said so in condemning the people for their lusts; and they who apply this passage to bulls are obliged to change the meaning of the verb — for bellowing, and not neighing, is what belongs to bulls. ⁵⁷

Now it was necessary, for two reasons, for the Prophet to speak thus; first, it was hardly credible, that the Chaldeans, after so many and so remarkable victories, could be broken down and laid prostrate by new enemies; for they had been terrible to the whole world, they had subdued all their neighbors, they had extended on all sides their borders; it was then the same as though they had set their nest in the clouds. Then the Prophet says here, that though they exulted and gave loose reins to their joy, yet this state of things would not be perpetual, because they should at length be brought to shame. This is one thing. And the second reason why the Prophet spoke thus was, because God intended that it should be testified to his own people, that though he permitted so much liberty to the Chaldeans, he had not yet forgotten his covenant; and for this reason he mentioned the word heritage. Though then the calamity of his people was apparently a sort of repudiation, as though God designed to have nothing more to do with them, yet he says that they were his own heritage; and thus he shows, that God would give a specimen of his favor towards the Jews, by thus severely chastising the Chaldeans. This then is the reason why he says, Ye have rejoiced in plundering my heritage, but your mother is ashamed. He expresses here more than if he had said, “Ye shall at length lie down confounded with shame;” but he names their mother, that he might intimate the destruction of the whole of that monarchy, which had been so terrible to all the neighboring nations. ⁵⁸

TSK: Jer 50:11 - ye were // ye destroyers // ye are // fat // bellow as bulls

ye were : Pro 17:5; Lam 1:21, Lam 2:15, Lam 2:16, Lam 4:21, Lam 4:22; Eze 25:3-8, Eze 25:15-17, Eze 26:2, Eze 26:3; Oba 1:12

ye destroyers : Jer 50:17, Jer 51:34, Jer 51:35; Psa 74:2-8, Psa 79:1-4, Psa 83:1-5; Isa 10:6, Isa 10:7, Isa 47:6; Zec 2:8, Zec 2:9, Zec 14:1-3, Zec 14:12

ye are : Jer 50:27, Jer 46:21; Deu 32:15; Psa 22:12; Hos 10:11; Amo 4:1

fat : Heb. big, or, corpulent, Jer 5:28

bellow as bulls : or, neigh as steeds, Jer 5:8

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per Ayat)

Poole: Jer 50:11 - a heifer at grass // bull bellowing

They

rejoiced at the ruin of the Jews; the same thing is laid to the charge of the Edomites, Ob 12 . The Chaldeans were God’ s rod to scourge the Jews; but when men are made use of by God, as his rod and scourge, they ought not to put off humanity, but to behave themselves decently, and as persons that are sensible of the miseries which their brethren suffer. God calls them his heritage , because they formerly were a people whom he owned above all other people. There is some difference amongst critical interpreters, whether the heifer here mentioned be to be understood of

a heifer at grass ( as we translate it,) or a heifer used to tread out the corn; or whether the last words be to be understood of a horse neighing , (as the words may be interpreted,) or a

bull bellowing But these are things of very small moment. The cause for which Babylon is threatened was doubtless their luxury of all sorts commonly attending great wealth, and prosperity meeting with hearts unsanctified.

Haydock: Jer 50:11 - Bulls

Bulls. You have rioted in Juda, and treated my people cruelly. (Haydock) ---

In Hebrew four verbs have improperly i for v; but [in] chap. li. 34., v supplants i five times. (Kennicott)

Gill: Jer 50:11 - Because ye were glad, because ye rejoiced, O ye destroyers of mine heritage // because ye are grown fat as the heifer at grass // and bellow as bulls

Because ye were glad, because ye rejoiced, O ye destroyers of mine heritage,.... This is addressed to the Chaldeans who destroyed Jerusalem and the land of Judea, once the heritage of the Lord; when they rejoiced at the destruction of God's people, and insulted them in their miseries; and which is the cause and reason assigned of their ruin; for though they had a commission to destroy, yet they exceeded that, and especially by exulting at the ruin of that people, which showed great inhumanity. So the Papists will rejoice at the slaying of the witnesses, but will be repaid in their own coin, Rev 11:10;

because ye are grown fat as the heifer at grass: which feeds all the day, and so grows fat. Some copies read, "as the heifer that treads out" ^k the corn; which, according to the law, was not to be muzzled, and so was continually feeding, and grew plump and sleek; and so these Chaldeans, having enriched themselves with the spoils of Judea and other nations, gave themselves up to ease and luxury; and it was at one of their festivals their city was taken, to which there may be some allusion:

and bellow as bulls: or, "neigh as horses" ^l; having got the victory, of which war horses are sensible; or it may denote their impetuous lust after women, whom they forced and ravished, when taken captives by them.