Verse 13
13. Jehovah has decreed the destruction.
Behold, is it not of Jehovah Is it not purposed by Jehovah? For Jehovah of hosts see on Hosea 12:5.
The people… the people Better, R.V., “the peoples… the nations”; that is, the nations subdued by the Chaldeans.
Labor in the very fire R.V., “for the fire”; literally, for the need of the fire. Jehovah has purposed to give all the works of their hands a prey to the flames.
For very vanity In vain. The judgment of Jehovah will bring all they have done to naught. Judgment upon Babylon is announced in similar terms in Jeremiah 51:58, but it is not certain that there is a direct literary dependence of the one passage upon the other. Nowack, followed by Marti, thinks that the words are a free reproduction of Jeremiah 51:58, and he renders the first sentence, “Behold, is not of Jehovah of hosts the word”; which he understands as an introduction to the quotation. If this passage is dependent upon Jeremiah 51:58, Nowack is right in considering it a later addition, but there is insufficient evidence for Nowack’s contention.
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