Jeremiah 50:12

Translations

Modern

…your mother will be greatly ashamed; she who bore you will be disgraced. Behold, she will be the least of the nations, a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert.

Traditional

Your mother shall be sore confounded; she that bare you shall be ashamed: behold, the hindermost of the nations shall be a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert.

Literal

…your mother will be greatly ashamed, she who bore you will be disgraced. Behold, the least of the nations, a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert.

Latin

…confusa est mater vestra nimis, et adæquata pulveri, quæ genuit vos: ecce novissima erit in gentibus, deserta, invia, et arens.

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English

…your mother will be greatly ashamed; she who bore you will be disgraced. Behold, she will be the least of the nations, a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert.

Notes

Jeremiah 50:12

The divine Judge gave his decision, describing the shame of a defeated Babylon.

Jeremiah 50:11–16

These verses vividly describe the defeat of Babylon by the Persian invasion (see Jeremiah 51; Isaiah 13:14; 21:1–10; 44:28; 47:1–5; Daniel 5). Babylon never became an important kingdom again. The city was destroyed in 485 BC. Archaeologists began excavating Babylon in 1899, uncovering its remains over several decades.

Jeremiah 50:1–51:64

This message of judgment on Babylon is the longest for any nation except Judah. It mixes threats against Babylon with promises to restore Judah. Babylon acted as the Lord's agent to destroy other Near Eastern civilizations. However, Babylon was also guilty of its own sins. The Lord would judge Babylon by making her experience what she did to others (Jeremiah 50:15).

Theme notes and profiles

Hope Beyond Judgment Messages Against the Nations The Lord of Nations

Events

Prophecies of Jeremiahc. 628 BC

Related verses

Jeremiah 51:43
Her cities have become a desolation, a dry and arid land, a land where no one lives, where no son of man passes through.
Revelation 18:21–23
Then a mighty angel picked up a stone the size of a great millstone and cast it into the sea, saying: “With such violence the great city of Babylon will be cast down, never to be seen again.
Isaiah 23:13
Look at the land of the Chaldeans—a people now of no account. The Assyrians destined it for the desert creatures; they set up their siege towers and stripped its palaces. They brought it to ruin.
Isaiah 14:22
“I will rise up against them,” declares the LORD of Hosts. “I will cut off from Babylon her name and her remnant, her offspring and her posterity,” declares the LORD.
Revelation 17:5
And on her forehead a mysterious name was written: BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF PROSTITUTES AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.
Galatians 4:26
But the Jerusalem above is free, and she is our mother.
Jeremiah 49:2
Therefore, behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will sound the battle cry against Rabbah of the Ammonites. It will become a heap of ruins, and its villages will be burned. Then Israel will drive out their dispossessors, says the LORD.
Jeremiah 51:62–64
…and say, ‘O LORD, You have promised to cut off this place so that no one will remain—neither man nor beast. Indeed, it will be desolate forever.’
Jeremiah 25:26
…all the kings of the north, both near and far, one after another—all the kingdoms on the face of the earth. And after all of them, the king of Sheshach will drink it too.
Jeremiah 51:25–26
“Behold, I am against you, O destroying mountain, you who devastate the whole earth, declares the LORD. I will stretch out My hand against you; I will roll you over the cliffs and turn you into a charred mountain.
Jeremiah 50:35–40
A sword is against the Chaldeans, declares the LORD, against those who live in Babylon, and against her officials and wise men.
Jeremiah 25:12
But when seventy years are complete, I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation, the land of the Chaldeans, for their guilt, declares the LORD, and I will make it an everlasting desolation.

Glossary

Book of Jeremiah Last Judgment Nations

Topics

Deserts: Desolation by Armies

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