Jeremiah 51:43

“Her cities are a desolation, a dry land, and a wilderness, etc.] Which some understand of Babylon itself, divided into two parts by the river Euphrates running in the midst of it, called by Berosusf1063 the inward and outward cities; though rather these design the rest of the cities in Chaldea, of which Babylon was the metropolis, the mother city, and the other her daughters, which should share the same fate with herself; be demolished, and the ground on which they stood become a dry, barren, uncultivated, and desert land: a land wherein no man dwelleth, neither doth [any] son of man pass thereby; having neither inhabitant nor traveller; see (<245012>Jeremiah 50:12,39).”

“Her cities--the cities, her dependencies. So, "Jerusalem and the cities thereof" (Jer 34:1). Or, the "cities" are the inner and outer cities, the two parts into which Babylon was divided by the Euphrates [GROTIUS].”

“A wilderness - Or, a desert of sand. A land wherein - Rather, “a land - no man shall dwell in them (i. e., its cities), and no human being shall pass through them.” return to 'Top of Page'”

“cities: Jer 51:29, Jer 51:37, Jer 50:39, Jer 50:40 a land: Jer 2:6; Isa 13:20; Eze 29:10, Eze 29:11 Jeremiah 51:44”