Jeremiah 50:38

Translations

Modern

A drought is upon her waters, and they will be dried up. For it is a land of graven images, and the people go mad over idols.

Traditional

A drought is upon her waters; and they shall be dried up: for it is the land of graven images, and they are mad upon their idols.

Literal

A drought is against her waters, that they should be dried up! For it is a land of graven images, and over idols they go mad!

Latin

Siccitas super aquas ejus erit, et arescent, quia terra sculptilium est, et in portentis gloriantur.

Original

Hebrew

English

A drought is upon her waters, and they will be dried up. For it is a land of graven images, and the people go mad over idols.

Notes

Jeremiah 50:38

The Euphrates River flowed through Babylon, supplying water to the city. The Persians reportedly diverted the river during a siege. They dug a canal around the city walls and attacked through the dry riverbed.

Jeremiah 50:35–38

Babylon would face the same violence it had inflicted on others. The same accusations were made against Babylon as against Israel, Judah, Egypt, and their neighbors. They all worshiped idols instead of the one true God.
The sword of destruction refers to the Persian army.

Theme notes and profiles

Hope Beyond Judgment Messages Against the Nations The Lord of Nations

Events

Prophecies of Jeremiahc. 628 BC

Related verses

Revelation 16:12
And the sixth angel poured out his bowl on the great river Euphrates, and its water was dried up to prepare the way for the kings of the East.
Jeremiah 50:2
“Announce and declare to the nations; lift up a banner and proclaim it; hold nothing back when you say, ‘Babylon is captured; Bel is put to shame; Marduk is shattered, her images are disgraced, her idols are broken in pieces.’
Isaiah 44:27
…who says to the depths of the sea, ‘Be dry, and I will dry up your currents,’
Jeremiah 51:52
“Therefore, behold, the days are coming,” declares the LORD, “when I will punish her idols, and throughout her land the wounded will groan.
Jeremiah 51:47
Therefore, behold, the days are coming when I will punish the idols of Babylon. Her entire land will suffer shame, and all her slain will lie fallen within her.
Isaiah 44:25
…who foils the signs of false prophets and makes fools of diviners, who confounds the wise and turns their knowledge into nonsense,
Revelation 17:15–16
Then the angel said to me, “The waters you saw, where the prostitute was seated, are peoples and multitudes and nations and tongues.
Isaiah 46:1–7
Bel crouches; Nebo cowers. Their idols weigh down beasts and cattle. The images you carry are burdensome, a load to the weary animal.
Jeremiah 50:12
…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.
Daniel 5:4
As they drank the wine, they praised their gods of gold and silver, bronze and iron, wood and stone.
Jeremiah 51:44
I will punish Bel in Babylon. I will make him spew out what he swallowed. The nations will no longer stream to him; even the wall of Babylon will fall.
Daniel 3:1–30
King Nebuchadnezzar made a golden statue sixty cubits high and six cubits wide, and he set it up on the plain of Dura in the province of Babylon.

Glossary

Book of Jeremiah Nations

Topics

Babylon: Inhabitants of Idolatrous Idolatry: They Who Practise are Mad Upon It

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