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Commentaries on Jeremiah 50:39

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John Gill - Exposition

John Gill

INTRODUCTION TO Jeremiah 50 This and the following chapter contain a long prophecy concerning the destruction of Babylon; and which is expressed in such language, that it may be, and is to be, accommodated to the destruction of mystical Babylon; and several passages in the book of the Revelation are borrowed from hence; and it is intermixed with promises and prophecies of the deliverance of God's...

John Gill - Exposition

John Gill

Therefore the wild beasts of the desert with the wild beasts of the islands shall dwell [there],.... Of these creatures [See comments on Isaiah 13:21]; and [See comments on Isaiah 13:22]; and the owls shall dwell therein; so mystical Babylon when fallen shall become the habitation of devils, the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird, Revelation 18:2; and it shall...

Matthew Henry - Complete Commentary

Matthew Henry

In this chapter, and that which follows, we have the judgment of Babylon, which is put last of Jeremiah's prophecies against the Gentiles because it was last accomplished; and when the cup of God's fury went round ( ch.25.17) the king of Sheshach, Babylon, drank last. Babylon was employed as the rod in God's hand for the chastising of all the other nations, and now at length that rod shall be...