Jeremiah 51:56

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

Because the spoiler is come upon her, even upon Babylon, and her mighty men are taken, every one of their bows is broken: for the LORD God of recompences shall surely requite.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

כִּי֩ בָ֨א עָלֶ֤יהָ עַל־בָּבֶל֙ שׁוֹדֵ֔ד וְנִלְכְּדוּ֙ גִּבּוֹרֶ֔יהָ חִתְּתָ֖ה קַשְּׁתוֹתָ֑ם כִּ֣י אֵ֧ל גְּמֻל֛וֹת יְהוָ֖ה שַׁלֵּ֥ם יְשַׁלֵּֽם׃

Transliteration

kî ḇāʾ ʿālêhā ʿal-bāḇel šôdēd wənilkədû gibbôrêhā ḥittətāh qaššətôtām kî ʾēl gəmulôt YHWH šallēm yəšallēm

Grammar Details

• *kî*: conjunction - because/for
• *ḇāʾ*: Qal perfect 3rd person masculine singular - has come
• *ʿālêhā*: preposition + 3rd person feminine singular suffix - upon her
• *ʿal*: preposition - upon/against
• *bāḇel*: proper noun - Babylon
• *šôdēd*: Qal participle masculine singular - destroyer/ravager
• *wənilkədû*: conjunction + Niphal perfect 3rd person common plural - and are captured
• *gibbôrêhā*: masculine plural noun + 3rd person feminine singular suffix - her mighty men
• *ḥittətāh*: Piel perfect 3rd person feminine singular - are broken/shattered
• *qaššətôtām*: feminine plural noun + 3rd person masculine plural suffix - their bows
• *ʾēl*: masculine singular noun - God of
• *gəmulôt*: feminine plural noun - recompenses/retributions
• *YHWH*: divine name
• *šallēm*: Piel infinitive absolute - repaying
• *yəšallēm*: Piel imperfect 3rd person masculine singular - he will surely repay

Word Meanings

• *šôdēd*: destroyer/ravager/plunderer
• *gibbôrêhā*: mighty men/warriors/heroes
• *ḥittətāh*: broken/shattered/dismayed
• *ʾēl*: God/mighty one
• *gəmulôt*: recompenses/retributions/rewards
• *šallēm yəšallēm*: will surely repay/will definitely recompense

Referenced Verses

• Ps 46:9 : 9 He maketh wars to cease{H8688)} unto the end of the earth; he breaketh{H8762)} the bow, and cutteth the spear in sunder{H8765)}; he burneth{H8799)} the chariot in the fire.
• Ps 94:1-2 : 1 O LORD God, to whom vengeance belongeth; O God, to whom vengeance belongeth, shew{H8685)} thyself. 2 Lift up{H8734)} thyself, thou judge{H8802)} of the earth: render{H8685)} a reward to the proud.
• Jer 51:6 : 6 Flee out of the midst of Babylon, and deliver every man his soul: be not cut off in her iniquity; for this is the time of the LORD'S vengeance; he will render unto her a recompence.
• Jer 51:48 : 48 Then the heaven and the earth, and all that is therein, shall sing for Babylon: for the spoilers shall come unto her from the north, saith the LORD.
• Hab 2:8 : 8 Because thou hast spoiled many nations, all the remnant of the people shall spoil thee; because of men's blood, and for the violence of the land, of the city, and of all that dwell therein.
• Jer 51:24 : 24 And I will render unto Babylon and to all the inhabitants of Chaldea all their evil that they have done in Zion in your sight, saith the LORD.
• Isa 59:18 : 18 According to their deeds, accordingly he will repay, fury to his adversaries, recompence to his enemies; to the islands he will repay recompence.
• Ps 76:3 : 3 There brake{H8765)} he the arrows of the bow, the shield, and the sword, and the battle. Selah.
• Deut 32:35 : 35 To me belongeth vengeance, and recompence; their foot shall slide in due time: for the day of their calamity is at hand, and the things that shall come upon them make haste.
• 1 Sam 2:4 : 4 The bows of the mighty men are broken, and they that stumbled are girded with strength.
• Ps 37:15 : 15 Their sword shall enter into their own heart, and their bows shall be broken{H8735)}.
• Ps 137:8 : 8 O daughter of Babylon, who art to be destroyed; happy shall he be, that rewardeth thee as thou hast served us.
• Isa 21:2 : 2 A grievous vision is declared unto me; the treacherous dealer dealeth treacherously, and the spoiler spoileth. Go up, O Elam: besiege, O Media; all the sighing thereof have I made to cease.
• Isa 34:8 : 8 For it is the day of the LORD'S vengeance, and the year of recompences for the controversy of Zion.
• Isa 35:4 : 4 Say to them that are of a fearful heart, Be strong, fear not: behold, your God will come with vengeance, even God with a recompence; he will come and save you.
• Jer 49:35 : 35 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Behold, I will break the bow of Elam, the chief of their might.
• Jer 50:10 : 10 And Chaldea shall be a spoil: all that spoil her shall be satisfied, saith the LORD.
• Jer 50:28-29 : 28 The voice of them that flee and escape out of the land of Babylon, to declare in Zion the vengeance of the LORD our God, the vengeance of his temple. 29 Call together the archers against Babylon: all ye that bend the bow, camp against it round about; let none thereof escape: recompense her according to her work; according to all that she hath done, do unto her: for she hath been proud against the LORD, against the Holy One of Israel.
• Jer 50:36 : 36 A sword is upon the liars; and they shall dote: a sword is upon her mighty men; and they shall be dismayed.
• Jer 51:30 : 30 The mighty men of Babylon have forborn to fight, they have remained in their holds: their might hath failed; they became as women: they have burned her dwellingplaces; her bars are broken.
• Ezek 39:3 : 3 And I will smite thy bow out of thy left hand, and will cause thine arrows to fall out of thy right hand.
• Ezek 39:9 : 9 And they that dwell in the cities of Israel shall go forth, and shall set on fire and burn the weapons, both the shields and the bucklers, the bows and the arrows, and the handstaves, and the spears, and they shall burn them with fire seven years:
• 2 Thess 1:6 : 6 Seeing it is a righteous thing with God to recompense tribulation to them that trouble you;
• Rev 17:16 : 16 And the ten horns which thou sawest upon the beast, these shall hate the whore, and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and burn her with fire.
• Rev 18:5-6 : 5 For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities. 6 Reward her even as she rewarded you, and double unto her double according to her works: in the cup which she hath filled fill to her double.
• Rev 18:20 : 20 Rejoice over her, thou heaven, and ye holy apostles and prophets; for God hath avenged you on her.
• Rev 19:2 : 2 For true and righteous are his judgments: for he hath judged the great whore, which did corrupt the earth with her fornication, and hath avenged the blood of his servants at her hand.
• Gen 49:24 : 24 But his bow abode in strength, and the arms of his hands were made strong by the hands of the mighty God of Jacob;(from thence is the shepherd, the stone of Israel:)