The Inner Meaning of the Prophets and Psalms # 117
117. Internal Meaning of Jeremiah, Chapter 51
Of those who by traditions or reasonings from the natural man have perverted the truths and goods of the church, who are here meant by Babylon. (3)
1-4 All truths of doctrine with them will be destroyed. (3)
5 The Jewish church is such, and is against the Lord. (3)
6 Let them beware of such. (3)
7-10 Those who are there are vastated by such things, and they do not refrain. (3)
11-13 They pervert truths and goods, which they have in abundance. (2, 3)
14-18 They have the Word so that they can be wise, but they falsify it. (2)
19-23 When the judgment overtakes them from the Lord, all things appertaining to them, from firsts to lasts, are to be scattered. (15)
24-26 Their destruction will come, because they have destroyed everything of the church. (15)
27-29 They will seize upon falsities of every kind. (3)
30-32 Hence they will no longer have any power. (2)
33 Her last time is coming. (15, 17)
34-40 They will perish because they have destroyed the church. (15, 2)
41-44 They will be destroyed by mere falsities. (15)
45-50 Let them not come near those who are of the church, lest they perish together with them. (15)
51-53 They cannot resist, however much they trust in themselves. (15, 3)
54-58 Those who trust in their own falsities will come to nothing and will be destroyed. (15)
59-61 This is told to those who in the church have been taken captive by such, and who have become Babylon. 15 (15)
Jeremiah 50:25-30
25
Yahweh has opened his armory, and has brought forth the weapons of his indignation; for the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, has a work [to do] in the land of the Chaldeans.
26
Come against her from the utmost border; open her storehouses; cast her up as heaps, and destroy her utterly; let nothing of her be left.
27
Kill all her bulls; let them go down to the slaughter: woe to them! for their day is come, the time of their visitation.
28
The voice of those who flee and escape out of the land of Babylon, to declare in Zion the vengeance of Yahweh our God, the vengeance of his temple.
29
Call together the archers against Babylon, all those who bend the bow; encamp against her all around; let none of it escape: recompense her according to her work; according to all that she has done, do to her; for she has been proud against Yahweh, against the Holy One of Israel.
30
Therefore her young men will fall in her streets, and all her men of war will be brought to silence in that day, says Yahweh.
