## Rashi on Jeremiah Chapter 51

###### Rashi on Jeremiah 51:1:1
[Rashi on Jeremiah 51:1:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Jeremiah/r/51:1:1)

**לֵב קָמָי.** כַּשְׂדִּים בְּגִימַטְרִיָּא דְּא״ת ב״ש, **רוּחַ מַשְׁחִית** אֶת רוּחַ מֶלֶךְ פָּרַס וּמָדַי שֶׁהוּא מַשְׁחִית. **רוּחַ** טַלְנְ״ט בְּלַעַ״ז:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**Leb-kamai** Casdim (Chaldeans) according to cypher of ‘At-bash’ (א"תב"ש). **the desire of a destroyer** The desire of the king of Persia and Media, who is a destroyer. Heb. רוּחַ (talent in O.F.).


###### Rashi on Jeremiah 51:2:1
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**וְזֵרוּהָ.** וְנִפְּצוּהָ:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**and they shall scatter her** Heb. וְזֵרוּהָ.


###### Rashi on Jeremiah 51:2:2
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**וִיבֹקְקוּ.** וִירוֹקְנוּ:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**and empty her land** Heb. וִיבֹקְקוּ.


###### Rashi on Jeremiah 51:3:1
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**אֶל יִדְרֹךְ הַדּרֵךְ.** הֲרֵי זֶה מִקְרָא קָצָר: אֶל אֲשֶׁר אֲנִי אוֹמֵר, שָׁם יִדְרֹךְ הַדּרֵךְ **קַשְׁתּוֹ**:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**To...the archer shall bend** This is an elliptical verse. [The meaning is:] To wherever I say, there the archer shall bend his bow.


###### Rashi on Jeremiah 51:3:2
[Rashi on Jeremiah 51:3:2](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Jeremiah/r/51:3:2)

**וְאַל יִתְעַל בְּסִרְיוֹנוֹ.** אַל יֵרָפֵא:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**and he shall not be healed with his coat of mail** Heb. וְאַל יִתְעַל.


###### Rashi on Jeremiah 51:5:1
[Rashi on Jeremiah 51:5:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Jeremiah/r/51:5:1)

**כִּי לֹא אַלְמָן.** לֹא שְׁכָחוֹ מִלִּנְקוֹם נִקְמָתוֹ:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**For Israel is not widowed** He has not forgotten him to avenge him.


###### Rashi on Jeremiah 51:5:2
[Rashi on Jeremiah 51:5:2](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Jeremiah/r/51:5:2)

**כִּי אַרְצָם.** שֶׁל כַּשְׂדִּים:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**for their land** of the Chaldeans.


###### Rashi on Jeremiah 51:6:1
[Rashi on Jeremiah 51:6:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Jeremiah/r/51:6:1)

**נֻסוּ.** יִשְׂרָאֵל **מִתּוֹךְ בָּבֶל**:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**Flee** Israel, from within Babylon.


###### Rashi on Jeremiah 51:7:1
[Rashi on Jeremiah 51:7:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Jeremiah/r/51:7:1)

**כּוֹס זָהָב.** הָיְתָה **בָּבֶל** עַד הֵנָּה **בְּיַד ה׳** לְשַׁכֵּר בָּהּ אֶת **כָּל הָאָרֶץ** יֵין הַחֵימָה (ירושלמי פסחים י:א):

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**a golden cup** Until now, Babylon was [a golden cup] in the Lord’s hand with which to intoxicate the whole earth with the wine of wrath.


###### Rashi on Jeremiah 51:7:2
[Rashi on Jeremiah 51:7:2](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Jeremiah/r/51:7:2)

**עַל כֵּן יִתְהוֹלְלוּ גוֹיִם.** נִשְׁתַּכְּרוּ וְנִשְׁתַּטּוּ:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**therefore, nations are mad** They have become drunk and have become mad.


###### Rashi on Jeremiah 51:9:1
[Rashi on Jeremiah 51:9:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Jeremiah/r/51:9:1)

**נָגַע אֶל הַשָּׁמַיִם מִשְׁפָּטָהּ.** גָּבַהּ פּוּרְעָנוּתָהּ עַד אֶל הַשָּׁמַיִם:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**her judgment has touched the sky** Their retribution has reached high up to the sky.


###### Rashi on Jeremiah 51:10:1
[Rashi on Jeremiah 51:10:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Jeremiah/r/51:10:1)

**הוֹצִיא ה׳ אֶת צִדְקוֹתֵינוּ.** נִזְכַּרְנוּ לְפָנָיו לִזְכוּת, וּבָאוּ צִדְקוֹת אֲבוֹתֵינוּ לְפָנָיו:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**“The Lord has brought forth our merits”** We have been remembered by Him favorably, and the merits of our forefathers have come before Him.


###### Rashi on Jeremiah 51:11:1
[Rashi on Jeremiah 51:11:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Jeremiah/r/51:11:1)

**הָבֵרוּ.** לְשׁוֹן נִקָּיוֹן:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**Polish** Heb. הברו, an expression of cleaning.


###### Rashi on Jeremiah 51:11:2
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**הַשְּׁלָטִים.** אַשְׁפּוֹת שֶׁ**הַחִצִּים** נְתוּנִים בָּהֶם:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**the quivers** Heb. השלטים, the quivers into which the arrows are placed.


###### Rashi on Jeremiah 51:12:1
[Rashi on Jeremiah 51:12:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Jeremiah/r/51:12:1)

**גַּם זָמַם ה׳.** זֶה יָמִים רַבִּים:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**for the Lord both planned** already many days.


###### Rashi on Jeremiah 51:12:2
[Rashi on Jeremiah 51:12:2](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Jeremiah/r/51:12:2)

**גַּם עָשָׂה.** אֶת מְזִמָּתוֹ. דֶּרֶךְ הַמִּקְרָא לְדַבֵּר שְׁנֵי גַמִּין זֶה אַחַר זֶה, וְעַל יְדֵי הָאַחֲרוֹן בָּא הָרִאשׁוֹן:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**and did** His plan. It is customary for Scripture to speak with the word גַם twice, one after the other, and following the latter, comes the former.


###### Rashi on Jeremiah 51:13:1
[Rashi on Jeremiah 51:13:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Jeremiah/r/51:13:1)

**בָּא קִצֵּךְ.** קֵץ שֶׁלָּךְ:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**your end has come** Heb. קצך, your end.


###### Rashi on Jeremiah 51:13:2
[Rashi on Jeremiah 51:13:2](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Jeremiah/r/51:13:2)

**אַמַּת בִּצְעֵךְ.** מִדַּת חֲמָסֵךְ. לָשׁוֹן אַחֵר: **אַמַּת בִּצְעֵךְ.** מִדַּת סוֹפֵךְ; כְּמוֹ ״כִּי יְבַצַּע״ (ישעיה י:יב):

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**the measure of your violence** Heb. אַמַתבִּצְעֵךְ, the measure of your violence. Another explanation: אַמַתבִּצְעֵךְ means: the measure of your end. Cf. “When... completes (יִבַצַע)” (Isa. 10:12).


###### Rashi on Jeremiah 51:14:1
[Rashi on Jeremiah 51:14:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Jeremiah/r/51:14:1)

**בְּנַפְשׁוֹ.** אִינְשִׁימִישִׁימוֹ״שׁ בְּלַעַ״ז:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**by Himself** (en soi meme in French.)


###### Rashi on Jeremiah 51:14:2
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**כִּי אִם.** לְשׁוֹן בֶּאֱמֶת:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**indeed** Heb. כי אם, an expression of ‘in truth.’


###### Rashi on Jeremiah 51:14:3
[Rashi on Jeremiah 51:14:3](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Jeremiah/r/51:14:3)

**מִלֵּאתִיךְ אָדָם.** אֲמַלִּינָךְ מַשְׁרְיָת עַמְּמִין דְּסַגִּיאִין כְּזַחֲלָא״ (תרגום יונתן):

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**I have...filled you with men** I will fill you with camps of peoples, as many as locusts.


###### Rashi on Jeremiah 51:14:4
[Rashi on Jeremiah 51:14:4](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Jeremiah/r/51:14:4)

**וְעָנוּ עָלַיִךְ הֵידָד.** ״וִירִימוּן עֲלָךְ בְּקָלְהוֹן״ (תרגום יונתן):

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**and they shall raise a battle- cry against you** And they shall raise their voice against you.


###### Rashi on Jeremiah 51:17:1
[Rashi on Jeremiah 51:17:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Jeremiah/r/51:17:1)

**נִבְעַר כָּל אָדָם.** הָעוֹשֶׂה פֶּסֶל לֶאֱלוֹהַּ:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**Every man is brutish** [i.e.,] whoever makes a graven image for a god.


###### Rashi on Jeremiah 51:17:2
[Rashi on Jeremiah 51:17:2](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Jeremiah/r/51:17:2)

**נִסְכּוֹ.** לְשׁוֹן ״מַסֵּכָה״ (שמות לב:ד):

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**molten images** [As translated], an expression [denoting] molten images.


###### Rashi on Jeremiah 51:18:1
[Rashi on Jeremiah 51:18:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Jeremiah/r/51:18:1)

**בְּעֵת פְּקֻדָּתָם.** כְּשֶׁיִּפְקֹד הַקָּדוֹשׁ בָּרוּךְ הוּא עֲלֵיהֶם וְעַל עוֹבְדֵיהֶם:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**at the time of their visitation** When the Holy One, blessed be He, visits retribution upon them and upon their worshippers.


###### Rashi on Jeremiah 51:19:1
[Rashi on Jeremiah 51:19:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Jeremiah/r/51:19:1)

**וְשֵׁבֶט נַחֲלָתוֹ. יַעֲקוֹב** הַנִּזְכָּר לְמַעְלָה בְּרֹאשׁ הַמִּקְרָא:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**and the tribe of His inheritance** Jacob mentioned above at the beginning of the verse.


###### Rashi on Jeremiah 51:20:1
[Rashi on Jeremiah 51:20:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Jeremiah/r/51:20:1)

**מַפֵּץ אַתָּה לִי.** עַד הֵנָּה הֶעֱמַדְתִּיךָ לִי לְמַשְׁחִית וּלְמַפֵּץ אֶת הָאֻמּוֹת שֶׁגָּזַרְתִּי עֲלֵיהֶם גּוֹלָה:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**for Me a shatterer** Heb. מפץ. Until now, I have appointed you as a destroyer and a shatterer of the nations upon whom I decreed exile.


###### Rashi on Jeremiah 51:24:1
[Rashi on Jeremiah 51:24:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Jeremiah/r/51:24:1)

**וְשִׁלַּמְתִּי לְבָבֶל.** אַחֲרֵי כָּל זֹאת, שֶׁאֶגְמֹר נִקְמָתִי עַל יָדוֹ בְּעוֹבְדֵי כּוֹכָבִים:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**And I will recompense Babylon** After all this, when I complete My vengeance upon the nations through him.


###### Rashi on Jeremiah 51:27:1
[Rashi on Jeremiah 51:27:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Jeremiah/r/51:27:1)

**קַדְּשׁוּ.** זַמְּנוּ:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**prepare** Heb. קַדְשוֹ.


###### Rashi on Jeremiah 51:27:2
[Rashi on Jeremiah 51:27:2](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Jeremiah/r/51:27:2)

**טִפְסָר.** לְשׁוֹן ״חַיִל״ (מלכים א כ:כה) (אוֹ לְשׁוֹן אָדוֹן):

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**a marshal** Heb. טפסר, an expression of an army [or an expression of a lord].


###### Rashi on Jeremiah 51:27:3
[Rashi on Jeremiah 51:27:3](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Jeremiah/r/51:27:3)

**סָמָר.** הִירִיצִי״ר בְּלַעַ״ז, כְּמוֹ ״תְּסַמֵּר שַׂעֲרַת בְּשָׂרִי״ (איוב ד:טו):

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**bristling** Heb. סמר. (Herisse in French), covered with spikes. Cf. “It made the hair of my flesh stand up like spikes (תְּסַּמֵר)” (Job 4:15).


###### Rashi on Jeremiah 51:29:1
[Rashi on Jeremiah 51:29:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Jeremiah/r/51:29:1)

**וַתָּחֹל.** לְשׁוֹן ״חַלְחָלָה״ (ישעיה כא:ג):

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**and was in pain** Heb. ותחל, an expression of חַלְחָלָה pain.


###### Rashi on Jeremiah 51:30:1
[Rashi on Jeremiah 51:30:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Jeremiah/r/51:30:1)

**נָשְׁתָה.** קָפְצָה; כְּמוֹ ״גִּיד הַנָּשֶׁה״ (בראשית לב:לג), שֶׁנָּשָׁה מִמְּקוֹמוֹ (חולין צא.):

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**failed** Heb. נשתה, [lit.] jumped. Compare “the hip sinew (הנשה)” (Gen. 33:32), so called because it jumped [was dislocated] from its place.


###### Rashi on Jeremiah 51:33:1
[Rashi on Jeremiah 51:33:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Jeremiah/r/51:33:1)

**כְּגֹרֶן עֵת הִדְרִיכָהּ.** הֲרֵי הִיא עַתָּה מְלֵאָה כְּגֹרֶן בְּעֵת שֶׁדָּשׁוּ תְּבוּאָתָהּ, שֶׁהִיא מְלֵאָה חִטִּין:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**is like a granary at the time it is threshed** Behold, now it is full, like a granary at the time they have threshed its grain, when it is full of wheat.


###### Rashi on Jeremiah 51:33:2
[Rashi on Jeremiah 51:33:2](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Jeremiah/r/51:33:2)

**עוֹד מְעַט.** וְתִתְרוֹקֵן וְתִדְמֶה לְ**גֹרֶן** בְּ**עֵת** תְּחִלַּת **הַקָּצִיר**, שֶׁהִיא רֵיקָנִית:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**A little more time** and she shall he emptied and shall resemble a granary at the time of the beginning of the harvest, when it is empty.


###### Rashi on Jeremiah 51:35:1
[Rashi on Jeremiah 51:35:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Jeremiah/r/51:35:1)

**חֲמָסִי וּשְׁאֵרִי.** צַעֲקַת חֲמָסִי וּמְזוֹנוֹתַי, אֲשֶׁר אָכְלוּ שְׁאֵרִי:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**the plundering done me and my food** The cry of violence done me and my food, for they have eaten my food.


###### Rashi on Jeremiah 51:38:1
[Rashi on Jeremiah 51:38:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Jeremiah/r/51:38:1)

**נָעֲרוּ.** לְשׁוֹן חֲמוֹר נוֹעֵר (ברכות ג.):

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**they growl** Heb. נערו, an expression of a braying (נוֹעֵר) donkey.


###### Rashi on Jeremiah 51:39:1
[Rashi on Jeremiah 51:39:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Jeremiah/r/51:39:1)

**בְּחֻמָּם אָשִׁית אֶת מִשְׁתֵּיהֶם.** אֲכַוֵּין שֶׁיְּהוּ מִשְׁתֵּיהֶן בְּעֵת הַחוֹם, כְּדֵי שֶׁיִּשְׁתַּכְּרוּ:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**in their heat, I will place their wine feasts** I will intend that their wine feasts shall be in the hot season so that they become drunk.


###### Rashi on Jeremiah 51:39:2
[Rashi on Jeremiah 51:39:2](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Jeremiah/r/51:39:2)

**לְמַעַן יַעֲלֹזוּ וְיָשְׁנוּ.** וְיִרְדְּמוּ:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**in order that they become joyful and sleep** Heb. וישנו, and sleep soundly.


###### Rashi on Jeremiah 51:39:3
[Rashi on Jeremiah 51:39:3](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Jeremiah/r/51:39:3)

**שְׁנַת עוֹלָם.** שֵׁנָה עוֹלָמִית. וְכֵן עָלְתָה בָּם: מִתּוֹךְ מִשְׁתֶּה וְשִׁכְרוּת נֶחְרְבוּ וְנֶהֶרְגוּ, וְנִלְכְּדָה הָעִיר; כְּמוֹ שֶׁנֶּאֱמַר בְּדָנִיֵּאל ״בֵּלְשַׁצַּר אָמַר בִּטְעֵם חַמְרָא וְגוֹ׳״ (דניאל ה:ב), ״אִשְׁתִּיו חַמְרָא וְגוֹ׳״ (דניאל ה:ד), ״בֵּיהּ בְּלֵילְיָא קְטִיל בֵּלְשַׁאצַּר מַלְכָּא וְגוֹ׳״ (דניאל ה:ל), ״וְדָרְיָוֶשׁ מָדָאָה קַבִּיל מַלְכוּתָא״ (דניאל ו:א):

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**a perpetual sleep** Heb. שנתעולם, a perpetual sleep, and so it happened to them; out of their wine feast and drunkenness they were destroyed and slain, and the city was captured, as it is written in Daniel (5:2): “Belshazzar said while he tasted the wine, etc.”; (5:4), “They drank wine, etc.”; (5: 30), “On that night, Belshazzar, the king of the Chaldeans, was slain”; (6:1), “And Darius the Mede received the kingship.”


###### Rashi on Jeremiah 51:40:1
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**כְּכָרִים.** כְּבָשִׂים, (וְיוֹנָתָן תִּרְגֵּם) ״כְּתוֹרִין״:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**like lambs** Heb. כברים, lambs (and Jonathan renders:) like bulls.


###### Rashi on Jeremiah 51:41:1
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**שֵׁשַׁךְ.** בָּבֶל בְּגִימַטְרִיָּא דְּא״ת ב״ש (תנחומא, קרח יב):

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**Sheshach** Babylon in the ‘At-bash’ (א"תב"ש), cipher.


###### Rashi on Jeremiah 51:42:1
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**עָלָה עַל בָּבֶל הַיָּם.** חַיִל גָּדוֹל כְּמוֹ הַיָּם:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**The sea has ascended upon Babylon** A huge army, like the waters of [the sea].


###### Rashi on Jeremiah 51:44:1
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**עַל בֵּל.** עַל עֲבוֹדַת כּוֹכָבִים שֶׁל **בָּבֶל**:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**on Bel** On the deity of Babylon.


###### Rashi on Jeremiah 51:44:2
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**אֶת בִּלְעוֹ.** שֶׁהוּשְׁפְּלוּ כָּל יוֹשְׁבֵי הָאָרֶץ תַּחְתָּיו:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**what he has swallowed** That all the inhabitants of the land were humbled under him.


###### Rashi on Jeremiah 51:44:3
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**וְלֹא יִנְהֲרוּ.** וְלֹא יֵאָסְפוּ; וְכֵן ״וְנָהֲרוּ אֵלָיו כָּל הַגּוֹיִם״ (ישעיהו ב:ב) – כְּמֵימֵי נְהָרוֹת כֻּלָּם הַהוֹלְכִים אֶל הַיָּם (קהלת א:ז):

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**shall no longer stream** Heb. יהרו, and shall not gather. Cf. “And all the nations shall stream (ונהרוּ) to it” (Isa. 2:2). Like the waters of the river, all of which go to the sea.


###### Rashi on Jeremiah 51:46:1
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**בַּשְּׁמוּעָה הַנִּשְׁמַעַת בָּאָרֶץ.** הַשְּׁמוּעָה הַזֹּאת שֶׁל בֵּלְשַׁצַּר שֶׁנֶּהֱרַג:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**because of the rumor that is heard in the land** This rumor concerning Belshazzar that he was slain.


###### Rashi on Jeremiah 51:46:2
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**וּבָא בַשָּׁנָה הַשְּׁמוּעָה.** בְּאוֹתָהּ שָׁנָה עַצְמָהּ תָּבוֹא הַשְּׁמוּעָה שֶׁחָרְבָה בָּבֶל מֵאֵלֶיהָ מִן הַשָּׁמַיִם, שֶׁנֶּאֱמַר ״וְהָיְתָה בָבֶל צְבִי מַמְלָכוֹת תִּפְאֶרֶת גְּאוֹן כַּשְׂדִּים כְּמַהְפֵּכַת אֱלֹהִים אֶת סְדֹם וְאֶת עֲמֹרָה״ (ישעיה יג:יט):

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**for a rumor shall come one year** In that very year there will come a rumor that Babylon has been destroyed by itself from heaven as it is stated: “And Babylon, the beauty of the kingdoms the glory of the pride of the Chaldee, shall be like God’s overturning of Sodom and Gemorrah” (Isa. 13: 19).


###### Rashi on Jeremiah 51:46:3
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**וְאַחֲרָיו בַּשָּׁנָה.** הַשְּׁנִיָּה:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**and after it in a year** [In] the second [year].


###### Rashi on Jeremiah 51:46:4
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**הַשְּׁמוּעָה.** הַטּוֹבָה לָכֶם: ״כֹּה אָמַר כּוֹרֶשׁ מֶלֶךְ פָּרַס״ (עזרא א:ב), ״מִי בָכֶם מִכָּל עַמּוֹ״ (עזרא א:ג):

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**a rumor** that is good for you [viz.] “So said Cyrus, the king of Persia..., Whoever among you of all His people...” (Ezra 1:2f).


###### Rashi on Jeremiah 51:46:5
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**וּמֹשֵׁל עַל מֹשֵׁל.** דָּרְיָוֶשׁ הַמָּדִי מָלַךְ שָׁנָה אַחַת, וּבַשָּׁנָה הַשְּׁנִיָּה כּוֹרֶשׁ הַפַּרְסִי:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**and one ruler upon another ruler** Darius the Mede reigned one year, and in the second year Cyrus the Persian.


###### Rashi on Jeremiah 51:49:1
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**גַּם בָּבֶל.** הָיְתָה **לִנְפֹּל** בָּהּ **חַלְלֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל**:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**As Babylon** was [a cause] for the slain of Israel to fall therein.


###### Rashi on Jeremiah 51:49:2
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**גַּם לְבָבֶל.** יִפְּלוּ **חַלְלֵי כָל** אַרְצָהּ:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**so in Babylon** shall fall the slain of all her land.


###### Rashi on Jeremiah 51:50:1
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**פְּלִיטִים מֵחֶרֶב.** יִשְׂרָאֵל שֶׁגָּלוּ לְתוֹכָהּ, שֶׁפָּלְטוּ מֵחֶרֶב נְבוּזַרְאֲדָן (מלכים ב כה:ח-יב):

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**Fugitives from the sword** Israel, who was exiled into her midst, who escaped the sword of Nebuzaradan.


###### Rashi on Jeremiah 51:51:1
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**כִּי שָׁמַעְנוּ חֶרְפָּה.** שֶׁהָיוּ כַשְׂדִּים אוֹמְרִים וּמְחָרְפִים אוֹתָנוּ לֵאמֹר: יַד אֱלֹהֵינוּ רָמָה, שֶׁהֶחֱרַבְנוּ אֶת בֵּיתוֹ:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**for we have heard reproach** For the Chaldeans were saying and reproaching us, saying, “The hand of our god is exalted for we have destroyed His house.”


###### Rashi on Jeremiah 51:52:1
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**יֶאֱנֹק חָלָל.** יִצְעַק חָלָל; כְּשֶׁהוֹרְגִים אֶת הָאָדָם בְּחֵץ אוֹ בְרוֹמַח וְהוּא גּוֹנֵחַ כְּשֶׁמּוֹצִיא הָרוֹמַח, הִיא הָאֲנָקָה:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**the mortally wounded shall groan** Heb. יאנק. The mortally wounded shall cry. When they kill a person with an arrow or with a spear, and he groans when they remove the spear, that is אנקה.


###### Rashi on Jeremiah 51:53:1
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**וְכִי תְבַצֵּר.** לְשׁוֹן מִבְצָר, חוֹזֶק:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**and should she fortify** Heb. תבצר, an expression of a strong fortress.


###### Rashi on Jeremiah 51:53:2
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**מֵאִתִּי יָבֹאוּ שׁוֹדְדִים לָהּ.** מֵאִתִּי, מִן הַשָּׁמַיִם הַגְּבוֹהִים מִמֶּנָּה, יָבֹאוּ לָהּ הַשּׁוֹדְדִים:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**from Me shall spoilers come upon her** From Me, from the heavens that are higher than she, shall the spoilers come upon her.


###### Rashi on Jeremiah 51:55:1
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**נִתַּן שְׁאוֹן קוֹלָם.** נִשְׁמַע קוֹל צַעֲקָתָם:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**the stirring of their voice was uttered** The sound of their cry is heard.


###### Rashi on Jeremiah 51:58:1
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**תִּתְעַרְעָר.** לְשׁוֹן חֲפִירָה, לְשׁוֹן ״עָרוּ עָרוּ עַד הַיְסוֹד״ (תהלים קלז:ז):

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**shall be overthrown** Heb. תתערער, an expression of digging. An expression like “Dig under it, dig under it (עָרוּ), until its foundation” (Psalms 137:7).


###### Rashi on Jeremiah 51:58:2
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**בְּדֵי רִיק.** בְּהַרְבֵּה רִיק שֶׁיָּבֹא עֲלֵיהֶם:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**for much futility** For much futility which it will bring upon them.


###### Rashi on Jeremiah 51:59:1
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**שַׂר מְנוּחָה.** ״רַב תִּקְרוֹבְתָּא״ (תרגום יונתן); עַל יָדוֹ הָיוּ רוֹאִים אֶת פְּנֵי הַמֶּלֶךְ הַמְּבִיאִים לוֹ תְּשׁוּרָה: