Jeremiah 50:24

22 ^aA sound of battle is in the land,
And of great destruction.

23 How ^athe hammer of the whole earth has been cut apart and broken!
How Babylon has become a desolation among the nations!

24 I have laid a snare for you;
You have indeed been ^atrapped, O Babylon,
And you were not aware;
You have been found and also caught,
Because you have ^bcontended against the Lord.

25 The Lord has opened His armory,
And has brought out ^athe weapons of His indignation;
For this is the work of the Lord God of hosts
In the land of the Chaldeans.

26 Come against her from the farthest border;
Open her storehouses;
Cast her up as heaps of ruins,
And destroy her utterly;
Let nothing of her be left.

Commentaries:

Barnes' Notes

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Jeremiah 50:24

I have laid a snare for thee - Babylon, the impregnable, was taken (according to Herodotus) by Cyrus by stratagem. Having diverted the waters of the Euphrates, he entered the city by the river channel: but see Daniel 5:1 note.

And thou wast not aware - Better literally, and thou didst not know it.

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