Daily Devotions
Jeremiah
"You destroyers of My heritage"
Text: Jeremiah 50:11
BABYLON JUDGED
The LORD judged Babylon on many issues. One of them was highlighted here. This particular judgment sees the LORD looking at the heart of the Babylonians.
“Because you were glad, because you rejoiced,
You destroyers of My heritage,
Because you have grown fat like a heifer threshing grain,
And you bellow like bulls,
Your mother shall be deeply ashamed;
She who bore you shall be ashamed.
Behold, the least of the nations shall be a wilderness,
A dry land and a desert.
Because of the wrath of the LORD
She shall not be inhabited,
But she shall be wholly desolate.
Everyone who goes by Babylon shall be horrified
And hiss at all her plagues.”
Jeremiah 50:11-13
1. “Because you were glad, because you rejoiced, you destroyers of My heritage,
because you have grown fat like a heifer threshing grain, and you bellow like bulls”
a) The Babylonians has risen up against the Assyrians successfully.
i) They began to conquer all the lands that were under Assyrian control.
ii) They added more lands than the Assyrians.
b) One of the lands added was Judah. God called Judah, “My heritage”.
c) The heart of Babylon:
i) They were glad to destroy.
ii) They rejoiced and took delight in destroying God’s heritage.
d) They were compared to unthinking animals.
i) To a fat heifer threshing grain.
ii) To a bull bellowing loudly.
2. “Your mother shall be deeply ashamed; she who bore you shall be ashamed.
Behold, the least of the nations shall be a wilderness, a dry land and a desert”
a) God remarked that Babylon’s mother would be ashamed of such sons.
i) Senseless louts.
ii) Rejoicing in destroying heritages.
b) The consequences:
i) Babylon would become “the least of the nations”.
ii) Worse, it would become a wilderness, a dry land and a desert.
c) This was “poetic justice”.
Babylon delighted in destroying all their enemies cruelly!
3. “Because of the wrath of the LORD she shall not be inhabited, but she shall be wholly desolate. Everyone who goes by Babylon shall be horrified and hiss at all her plagues”
a) The wrath of the LORD would be visited on Babylon.
b) The land would become:
i) Wholly desolate.
ii) It would be plagued.
c) Passers-by would look at Babylon with a sense of horror because of the LORD’s judgment.