Jeremiah 50:41

“Behold, a people shall come from the north, and a great nation, etc.] The Modes and Persians, whose country lay north of Babylon: (see Gill on “<245009>Jeremiah 50:9”); and many kings shall be raised up from the coasts of the earth; the kings of Ararat, Minni, and Ashchenaz, (<245127>Jeremiah 51:27); and of the Armenians and other nations that Cyrus had subdued and brought with him in his army against Babylon, as Xenophonf1003 relates. Ten kings shall be raised up against mystical Babylon, and hate her, and burn her with fire, (<661712>Revelation 17:12,16).”

“(Compare Jer 6:22-24). The very language used to describe the calamities which Babylon inflicted on Zion is that here employed to describe Babylon's own calamity inflicted by the Medes. Retribution in kind. kinds--the allies and satraps of the various provinces of the Medo-Persian empire: Armenia, Hyrcania, Lydia, &c. coasts--the remote parts.”

“An application to Babylon of the doom against Jerusalem Jeremiah 6:22-24. Jeremiah 50:41 The coasts of the earth - See the Jeremiah 6:22 note. return to 'Top of Page'”

“Jer 50:2, Jer 50:3, Jer 50:9, Jer 6:22, Jer 6:23, Jer 25:14, Jer 51:1, Jer 51:2, Jer 51:11, Jer 51:27, Jer 51:28; Isa 13:2-5, Isa 13:17, Isa 13:18; Rev 17:16 Jeremiah 50:42”

“The agents who execute the judgment. - Jer 50:41. "Behold, a people shall come from the north, and a great nation, and many kings shall be raised up from the most distant sides of the earth. Jer 50:42. Bow and javelin shall they seize: they are cruel, and will not pity; their voice shall sound like the sea, and they shall ride upon horses, \[each one\] arrayed like a man for the battle, against thee, O daughter of Babylon. Jer 50:43. The king of Babylon hath heard the report concerning them, and his hands have fallen down: distress hath seized him, writing pain, like \[that of\] the woman in childbirth. Jer 50:44. Behold, he shall come up like a lion from the glory of Jordan to a habitation…”