Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
forsaken—as a widow (Hebrew). Israel is not severed from her husband, Jehovah (Isaiah 54:5-7), by a perpetual divorce.
though . . . sin—though the land of Israel has been filled with sin, that is, with the punishment of their sin, devastation. But, as the Hebrew means "for," or "and therefore," not "though," translate, "and therefore their (the Chaldeans') land has been filled with (the penal consequences of) their sin" [GROTIUS].
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Jeremiah 51:5:
Psalms 79:6-7
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