Jeremiah 51:27

Translations

Modern

“Raise a banner in the land! Blow the ram’s horn among the nations! Prepare the nations against her. Summon the kingdoms against her—Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz. Appoint a captain against her; bring up horses like swarming locusts.

Traditional

Set ye up a standard in the land, blow the trumpet among the nations, prepare the nations against her, call together against her the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ashchenaz; appoint a captain against her; cause the horses to come up as the rough caterpillers.

Literal

“Lift up a signal on the earth, blow the shofar among the nations; prepare against her the nations, summon against her the kingdoms—Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz; appoint against her a general, cause to come up the horses like bristling locust!

Latin

Levate signum in terra, clangite buccina in gentibus, sanctificate super eam gentes, annuntiate contra illam regibus Ararat, Menni, et Ascenez: numerate contra eam Taphsar, adducite equum quasi bruchum aculeatum.

Original

Hebrew

English

“Raise a banner in the land! Blow the ram’s horn among the nations! Prepare the nations against her. Summon the kingdoms against her—Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz. Appoint a captain against her; bring up horses like swarming locusts.

Notes

Jeremiah 51:27–28

Ararat was a mountainous region north of Babylon.
Ashkenaz was Noah’s great-grandson through Japheth and Gomer (Genesis 10:2–3). His descendants likely lived in Ararat, as did the people of Minni, who are otherwise unknown.

Theme notes and profiles

Hope Beyond Judgment Messages Against the Nations The Lord of Nations

Events

Prophecies of Jeremiahc. 628 BC

Related verses

Genesis 10:3
The sons of Gomer: Ashkenaz, Riphath, and Togarmah.
1 Chronicles 1:6
The sons of Gomer: Ashkenaz, Riphath, and Togarmah.
Genesis 8:4
On the seventeenth day of the seventh month, the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat.
Jeremiah 25:14
For many nations and great kings will enslave them, and I will repay them according to their deeds and according to the work of their hands.’”
Jeremiah 51:12
Raise a banner against the walls of Babylon; post the guard; station the watchmen; prepare the ambush. For the LORD has both devised and accomplished what He spoke against the people of Babylon.
Jeremiah 50:2
“Announce and declare to the nations; lift up a banner and proclaim it; hold nothing back when you say, ‘Babylon is captured; Bel is put to shame; Marduk is shattered, her images are disgraced, her idols are broken in pieces.’
Isaiah 18:3
All you people of the world and dwellers of the earth, when a banner is raised on the mountains, you will see it; when a ram’s horn sounds, you will hear it.
Jeremiah 50:41–42
Behold, an army is coming from the north; a great nation and many kings are stirred up from the ends of the earth.
Jeremiah 51:14
The LORD of Hosts has sworn by Himself: “Surely I will fill you up with men as with locusts, and they will shout in triumph over you.”
Revelation 9:7–11
And the locusts looked like horses prepared for battle, with something like crowns of gold on their heads; and their faces were like the faces of men.
Isaiah 13:2–5
Raise a banner on a barren hilltop; call aloud to them. Wave your hand, that they may enter the gates of the nobles.
Judges 6:5
For the Midianites came with their livestock and their tents like a great swarm of locusts. They and their camels were innumerable, and they entered the land to ravage it.

Places

Ararat: A mountain range where Noah's ark rested after the flood Ashkenaz: A kingdom summoned to battle against Babylon Minni: A kingdom allied with Ararat and Ashkenaz

Glossary

Ashchenaz Ashkenaz Book of Jeremiah Locusts Medes, Media, Median Minni Nations

Topics

Ararat: A District of Armenia Armenia: A Region in Western Asia Armies: Compared to Caterpillars Ashkenaz: Descendants of Caterpillar: Sent As a Judgment Minni: A District of Armenia Persia: Prophecies Concerning The Horse: Numbers of, Kept for War Trumpet used in War

Jeremiah 51:27

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