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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Jeremiah 51:55 - 51:55
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great voice - Where once was the great din of a mighty city, there shall be the silence of death [Vatablus]. Or, the “great voice” of the revelers (Jer 51:38, Jer 51:39; Isa 22:2). Or, the voice of mighty boasting [Calvin], (compare Jer 51:53).
her waves - “when” her calamities shall cause her to give forth a widely different “voice,” even such a one as the waves give that lash the shores (Jer 51:42) [Grotius]. Or, “when” is connected thus: “the great voice” in her, when her “waves,” etc. (compare Jer 51:13). Calvin translates, “their waves,” that is, the Medes bursting on her as impetuous waves; so Jer 51:42. But the parallel, “a great voice,” belongs to her, therefore the wave-like “roar” of “their voice” ought also belong to her (compare Jer 51:54). The “great voice” of commercial din, boasting, and feasting, is “destroyed”; but in its stead there is the wave-like roar of her voice in her “destruction” (Jer 51:54).