Jeremiah 51:49-53

The cultural idols of the Babylonians…power, control and greed will be wiped away by the reign of Jesus, King of kings and Lord of lords. In His Kingdom the lion will lay down with the lamb and war and violence will cease to exist.

What a glorious day that will be!

The judgment oracle against Babylon continues, focusing on Babylon’s ultimate destruction. 

The lengthy oracle condemning Babylon concludes with a final symbolic action that Jeremiah performs vicariously through the royal official Seraiah, brother of Baruch. Seraiah is part of the delegation accompanying King Zedekiah to Babylon in 593 bc. The delegation might have been in response to the rebellion in Syria-Palestine being promoted by Edom, Moab, Tyre, and Sidon. Perhaps Zedekiah was bringing tribute to Nebuchadnezzar to emphasize his submission and avoid reprisals. Jeremiah gives Seraiah a scroll listing the disasters that will befall Babylon. He commands Seraiah to read the scroll aloud in Babylon, then tie it to a rock and throw it into the Euphrates River. The action symbolizes that the list will come true; the same thing that happened to the scroll will happen to Babylon. Faithlife Bible.

Babylon would be destroyed for killing so many in Israel. The remnant of Israel would be called upon to remember their God and how He delivered them from afar. Zedekiah reigned as king of Judah from 598 to 586 b.c., until God finally cast him out of Jerusalem for doing evil in the sight of the Lord.

Jeremiah 51:49-53

As Babylon has caused the slain of Israel to fall,

So at Babylon the slain of all the earth shall fall.

50 You who have escaped the sword,

Get away! Do not stand still!

Remember the Lord afar off,

And let Jerusalem come to your mind.

51 We are ashamed because we have heard reproach.

Shame has covered our faces,

For strangers have come into the sanctuaries of the Lord’s house.

52 “Therefore behold, the days are coming,” says the Lord,

“That I will bring judgment on her carved images,

And throughout all her land the wounded shall groan.

53 Though Babylon were to mount up to heaven,

And though she were to fortify the height of her strength,

Yet from Me plunderers would come to her,” says the Lord.

Genesis 11:4 | And they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top is in the heavens; let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered abroad over the face of the whole earth.”

Deuteronomy 4:29 | But from there you will seek the LORD your God, and you will find Him if you seek Him with all your heart and with all your soul.

Deuteronomy 4:30 | When you are in distress, and all these things come upon you in the latter days, when you turn to the LORD your God and obey His voice

Deuteronomy 4:31 | (for the LORD your God is a merciful God), He will not forsake you nor destroy you, nor forget the covenant of your fathers which He swore to them.

Job 20:6 | Though his haughtiness mounts up to the heavens, And his head reaches to the clouds,