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 51:14-18
14
Yahweh of Armies has sworn by himself, [saying], Surely I will fill you with men, as with the canker worm; and they shall lift up a shout against you.
15
He has made the earth by his power, he has established the world by his wisdom, and by his understanding has he stretched out the heavens:
16
when he utters his voice, there is a tumult of waters in the heavens, and he causes the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth; he makes lightning for the rain, and brings forth the wind out of his treasuries.
17
Every man is become brutish [and is] without knowledge; every goldsmith is disappointed by his image; for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.
18
They are vanity, a work of delusion: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.
