Is Babylon no more inhabited today fulfilling Jeremiah 50 v39?

Answer 1

Jeremiah 50:39 ...and it (Babylon) shall be no more inhabited for ever; neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation.

A failed prophecy, since present-day Iraq is quite occupied.

Second (Response to First ):

A prophecy unfulfilled is not failed, but simply yet future.

Babylon is present-day Iraq. And it shall one day be uninhabited, and uninhabitable, and that, according to the Jeremiah 50-51 prophecy, will ultimately be caused by a severe drought (Jer 50:38, 51:36-37).

That drought will be the result of a catastrophic flood event (Jer 51:42-43).

And that flood will follow a defeat at the hands of the Medes (Jer 50:3,9-10, 51:11,27-28,48) the present-day Kurds, who will "plunder" her "treasures" (Jer 50:37).

And this ransacking and defeat will occur after she is abandoned by the nations (Jer 51:8-9) because they will see they had "toil(ed) for nothing" (Jer 51:58) after "her high gates (are) set on fire" (Jer 51:58) and all her cities are "set on fire" so that all (the) environs" are devoured by the fire (Jer 50:32).

This conflagration occurs after the time of the punishment of the "arrogant one" who will "stumble and fall" (Jer 50:31-32).

This punishment occurs after he, the "king of Babylon", is told his "city has been captured from end to end, the (bridges) also have been seized and they have burned the marshes with fire, and (his) men of war are terrified" (Jer 51:31-32).

The city falls as a result of a massive military invasion, when the land is filled "with a population like locusts, and they will cry out with shouts of victory over (her)" (Jer 51:14).

And this invasion is by "a great nation and many kings... aroused from the remote parts of the earth... marshalled like a man for the battle against you.." (Jer 50:41-42).

But at the news, "Babylon to be invaded!" the earth is shaken, in that "an outcry is heard among the nations" (Jer 50:46).

But the protests will not deter the invasion, for The LORD of hosts has sworn to himself to judge Babylon (Jer 51:14).

Third (Response to First ):

Since Babylon refers to a particular city and not to a nation or to an empire this prophecy began to be fulfilled when Babylon was indeed captured by Cyrus the Mede. It has not been inhabited in any significant way since and is today a tourist attraction and archeological site. Sadam Hussein, who some think believed himself to be a reincarnation of Nebachadnezzar, sought to revive Babylon. We know what has happened to Sadam.

This is another example (in the first comment above) of a misinterpretation of The Bible, either deliberate or ignorant (not actually reading or bothering to find out what the Bible says) being used to allege that the Bible is in error. It is nothing but entirely accurate.

Babylon, in terms of the original prophecy, has indeed been judged.

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