John Gill's Exposition on Jeremiah 50:13

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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Because of the wrath of the Lord, it shall not be inhabited, etc.] That is, Babylon; which the Targum expresses, “because thou, Babylon, hast provoked the Lord;” by their idolatry, luxury, ill usage of his people, and profanation of the vessels of the sanctuary; therefore it should be destroyed, and left without an inhabitant in it: but it shall be wholly desolate; as it now is. Pausanias saysf975, in his time there was nothing but a wall remaining; and Jeromf976 says, he had it from a brother Elamite, or Persian, that Babylon was then a park or place for royal hunting, and that beasts of every kind were kept within its walls: of mystical Babylon, (see <661619>Revelation 16:19 18:2); everyone that goeth by Babylon shall be astonished, and hiss at all her plagues; any traveller that had seen it in its glory would now be astonished to see the desolation of it; and, by way of scorn and derision, hiss at the judgments of God upon it, and rejoice at them, and shake their head, as the Targum.

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