Jeremiah 50:41
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New International Version (©2011)
"Look! An army is coming from the north; a great nation and many kings are being stirred up from the ends of the earth.

New Living Translation (©2007)
"Look! A great army is coming from the north. A great nation and many kings are rising against you from far-off lands.

English Standard Version (©2001)
“Behold, a people comes from the north; a mighty nation and many kings are stirring from the farthest parts of the earth.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
"Behold, a people is coming from the north, And a great nation and many kings Will be aroused from the remote parts of the earth.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
Behold, a people shall come from the north, and a great nation, and many kings shall be raised up from the coasts of the earth.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
Look! A people comes from the north. A great nation and many kings will be stirred up from the remote regions of the earth.

International Standard Version (©2012)
"Look, people are coming from the north. A great nation and many kings will be stirred up from the ends of the earth.

NET Bible (©2006)
"Look! An army is about to come from the north. A mighty nation and many kings are stirring into action in faraway parts of the earth.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
"People are going to come from the north. A great nation and many kings will rise from the ends of the earth.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
Behold, a people shall come from the north, and a great nation, and many kings shall be raised up from the ends of the earth.

American King James Version
Behold, a people shall come from the north, and a great nation, and many kings shall be raised up from the coasts of the earth.

American Standard Version
Behold, a people cometh from the north; and a great nation and many kings shall be stirred up from the uttermost parts of the earth.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Behold a people cometh from the north, and a great nation, and many kings shall rise from the ends of the earth.

Darby Bible Translation
Behold, a people cometh from the north, and a great nation. And many kings shall arise from the uttermost parts of the earth.

English Revised Version
Behold, a people cometh from the north; and a great nation, and many kings shall be stirred up from the uttermost parts of the earth.

Webster's Bible Translation
Behold, a people shall come from the north, and a great nation, and many kings shall be raised up from the borders of the earth.

World English Bible
Behold, a people comes from the north; and a great nation and many kings shall be stirred up from the uttermost parts of the earth.

Young's Literal Translation
Lo, a people hath come from the north, Even a great nation, And many kings are stirred up from the sides of the earth.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

50:33-46 It is Israel's comfort in distress, that, though they are weak, their Redeemer is strong. This may be applied to believers, who complain of the dominion of sin and corruption, and of their own weakness and manifold infirmities. Their Redeemer is able to keep what they commit to him; and sin shall not have dominion over them. He will give them that rest which remains for the people of God. Also here is Babylon's sin, and their punishment. The sins are, idolatry and persecution. He that will not save his people in their sins, never will countenance the wickedness of his open enemies. The judgments of God for these sins will lay them waste. In the judgments denounced against prosperous Babylon, and the mercies promised to afflicted Israel, we learn to choose to suffer affliction with the people of God, rather than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 41- Jeremiah 51:4. - The instruments of the judgment. The section is partly a cento from other prophecies. Thus vers. 41-43 are a repetition of Jeremiah

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Behold, a people shall come from the north, and a great nation,.... The Modes and Persians, whose country lay north of Babylon: See Gill on Jeremiah 50:9;

and many kings shall be raised up from the coasts of the earth; the kings of Ararat, Minni, and Ashchenaz, Jeremiah 51:27; and of the Armenians and other nations that Cyrus had subdued and brought with him in his army against Babylon, as Xenophon (s) relates. Ten kings shall be raised up against mystical Babylon, and hate her, and burn her with fire, Revelation 17:12.

(s) Cyropaedia, l. 5. c. 15.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

41-43. (Compare Jer 6:22-24). The very language used to describe the calamities which Babylon inflicted on Zion is that here employed to describe Babylon's own calamity inflicted by the Medes. Retribution in kind.

kinds—the allies and satraps of the various provinces of the Medo-Persian empire: Armenia, Hyrcania, Lydia, &c.

coasts—the remote parts.

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The Destruction of Babylon
…40As God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbor cities thereof, said the LORD; so shall no man abide there, neither shall any son of man dwell therein. 41Behold, a people shall come from the north, and a great nation, and many kings shall be raised up from the coasts of the earth. 42They shall hold the bow and the lance: they are cruel, and will not show mercy: their voice shall roar like the sea, and they shall ride on horses, every one put in array, like a man to the battle, against you, O daughter of Babylon. …

Isaiah 13:2 Raise a banner on a bare hilltop, shout to them; beckon to them to enter the gates of the nobles.
Jeremiah 6:22 This is what the LORD says: "Look, an army is coming from the land of the north; a great nation is being stirred up from the ends of the earth.
Jeremiah 25:14 They themselves will be enslaved by many nations and great kings; I will repay them according to their deeds and the work of their hands."
Jeremiah 50:3 A nation from the north will attack her and lay waste her land. No one will live in it; both people and animals will flee away.
Jeremiah 50:9 For I will stir up and bring against Babylon an alliance of great nations from the land of the north. They will take up their positions against her, and from the north she will be captured. Their arrows will be like skilled warriors who do not return empty-handed.
Jeremiah 51:27 "Lift up a banner in the land! Blow the trumpet among the nations! Prepare the nations for battle against her; summon against her these kingdoms: Ararat, Minni and Ashkenaz. Appoint a commander against her; send up horses like a swarm of locusts.
Jeremiah 51:28 Prepare the nations for battle against her-- the kings of the Medes, their governors and all their officials, and all the countries they rule.
Daniel 5:26 "Here is what these words mean: Mene: God has numbered the days of your reign and brought it to an end.