Jeremiah 50:39

Jeremiah 50:39

37 A sword is against their horses,
Against their chariots,
And against all ^athe mixed peoples who are in her midst;
And ^bthey will become like women.
A sword is against her treasures, and they will be robbed.

38 ^a¹A drought is against her waters, and they will be dried up.
For it is the land of carved images,
And they are insane with their idols.

39 “Therefore^a the wild desert beasts shall dwell there with the jackals,
And the ostriches shall dwell in it.
^bIt shall be inhabited no more forever,
Nor shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation.

40 ^aAs God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah
And their neighbors,” says the Lord,
“So no one shall reside there,
Nor son of man ^bdwell in it.

41 “Behold,^a a people shall come from the north,
And a great nation and many kings
Shall be raised up from the ends of the earth.

42 ^aThey shall hold the bow and the lance;
^bThey are cruel and shall not show mercy.
^cTheir voice shall roar like the sea;
They shall ride on horses,
Set in array, like a man for the battle,
Against you, O daughter of Babylon.

Commentaries:

Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

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wild beasts of the desert—wild cats, remarkable for their howl [BOCHART].

wild beasts of the islands—jackals (See on Isaiah 13:21).

owls—rather, "female ostriches"; they delight in solitary places. Literally, "daughters of crying." Compare as to spiritual Babylon, Revelation 18:2.

no more inhabited for ever—The accumulation of phrases is to express the final and utter extinction of Babylon; fulfilled not immediately, but by degrees; Cyrus took away its supremacy. Darius Hystaspes deprived it, when it had rebelled, of its fortifications. Seleucus Nicanor removed its citizens and wealth to Seleucia, which he founded in the neighborhood; and the Parthians removed all that was left to Ctesiphon. Nothing but its walls was left under the Roman emperor Adrian.

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