John Gill's Exposition on Jeremiah 51:29

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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And the land shall tremble and sorrow, etc.] The land of Chaldea, the inhabitants of it, should tremble, when they heard of this powerful army invading their land, and besieging their metropolis; and should sorrow, and be in pain as a woman in travail, as the wordf1039 signifies: for every purpose of the Lord shall be performed against Babylon; or, “shall stand”f1040; be certainly fulfilled; for his purposes are firm and not frustratable: to make the land of Babylon a desolation without an inhabitant; this the Lord purposed, and threatened to do; (see <245039>Jeremiah 50:39,40) (<231319>Isaiah 13:19,20).

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