Teks -- Jeremiah 50:14 (NET)

50:14 “Take up your battle positions all around Babylon, all you soldiers who are armed with bows. Shoot all your arrows at her! Do not hold any back! For she has sinned against the Lord.

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

JFB: Jer 50:14

Summons to the Median army to attack Babylon.

JFB: Jer 50:14 - against the Lord

By oppressing His people, their cause is His cause. Also by profaning His sacred vessels (Dan 5:2).

Calvin: Jer 50:14 - NO PHRASE

The Prophet now turns to address the Medes and Persians, and instigates them, in the name of God, to destroy Babylon. We have already said, why the Prophets assume authority over all nations, even that they might show that God’s power is connected with his word. For men do not easily apprehend the efficacy of God’s word, and think that the air is to no purpose beaten by an empty sound. Hence the Prophets show that God has his hand extended whenever he speaks, so that nothing is announced in vain. This then is the reason why the Prophet now, as before, commands the Persians and Medes strenuously to exert themselves in attacking Babylon.

He says, first, Set in order, that is, the battle, or the assault; set in order against Babylon; and then, around, so that no escape might be open to them. He adds, All ye who bend the bow, for this mode of fighting was common among the Medes and Persians, as it appeared elsewhere; and the Orientals still follow the same practice, for they throw darts at their enemy, and move here and there, for they do not engage in pitched battles. he afterwards says, Throw or shoot at her, spare not the arrow; the singular is here used for the plural, he adds the reason, because they have acted wickedly against God. ⁵⁹

Though the iniquity of Babylon was manifold, there is yet no doubt but that God here undertakes the cause of his Church. Then, of all the sins of the Chaldeans, the chief was this, that they had oppressed the Church of God; for we know with what favor God regards his children, so that he who hurts them toucheth the apple of his eye, as he testifies elsewhere. (Zec 2:8.) This singular effect of love Jeremiah sets forth when he says, that the Chaldeans had acted wickedly against Jehovah, even because they had tyrannically oppressed his Church.

Now God will have nothing, as it were, apart from his children: and hence we learn a useful doctrine, — that the salvation of his Church is so precious in the sight of God, flint he regards the wrong done to the faithful as done to himself. Thus there is no reason why we should torment ourselves, when the ungodly harass us, because God will at length really show that our salvation is not less dear to him than their own eyes are to men. It afterwards follows, —

TSK: Jer 50:14 - in array // bend // for she

in array : Jer 50:9, Jer 51:2, Jer 51:11, Jer 51:12, Jer 51:27; 1Sa 17:20; 2Sa 10:9; Isa 13:4, Isa 13:17, Isa 13:18

bend : Jer 50:29, Jer 50:42, Jer 46:9, Jer 49:35; Isa 5:28

for she : Jer 50:7, Jer 50:11, Jer 50:29; Psa 51:4; Hab 2:8, Hab 2:17; Rev 17:5

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

Poole: Jer 50:14

The prophet calls to the Medes and Persians, with those who should come with them to their assistance, to put themselves in military order ready to come up against Babylon. The Persians (as was noted before) were very famous for the bow, therefore he speaketh unto them as an army of archers, to shoot at the Babylonians, and to

spare no arrows because Babylon had

sinned against the Lord exceedingly , as Gen 13:13 , by their idolatry, luxury, and cruel usage of the Jews, &c.

Gill: Jer 50:14 - Put yourselves in array against Babylon round about // all ye that bend the bow, shoot at her, spare no arrows // for she hath sinned against the Lord

Put yourselves in array against Babylon round about,.... This is directed to the Medes and Persians, to dispose of their army in proper places round about the city of Babylon, to besiege it; and to order their instruments of war, fit for that purpose, a convenient manner; since they might be sure of victory, the Lord being wroth with it, and having so severely threatened its ruin:

all ye that bend the bow, shoot at her, spare no arrows; the Elamites, or Persians, as before observed, were well skilled in archery; and, as Xenophon ^q reports, Cyrus had in his army, when he came to Babylon, a great number of archers and slingers; and the archers are called upon to draw the bow, who were expert at it, and not spare their arrows, since they would everyone do execution, as in Jer 50:9; and the slingers to "cast their stones at her" ^r, for so may be rendered; and thus it is interpreted, by Jarchi and by Kimchi, of casting either arrows or stones:

for she hath sinned against the Lord; which brought the wrath of God upon her; and chiefly the ill treatment of his people was the sin against him he resented.