Jeremiah 50

Jeremiah comes to the final prophecy against the nations: Babylon. Spread over two long chapters, he announces that the instrument of God’s wrath against the nations will be punished. I want to focus on a few words in this verse: Come against her from every quarter;open her granaries;pile her up like heaps of grain, and devote her to destruction;let nothing be left of her. Jeremiah 50:26 The word “granary” (מַאֲבוּס ma’avus) is unique to this verse. Its root is probably אָבַס (avas), which means to fatten. It is used in 1 Kings 4:23 (“fattened fowl”) and Proverbs 15:17 (“fattened ox”). […]