The Pulpit Commentary on Jeremiah 51:38-49

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public domain

Fall of Babylon; joy of the whole world.

They shall roar …. In their heat; rather, They may roar … (yet) when they wax warm (with lust) I will prepare. The banquet which Jehovah will prepare is the "cup of bewilderment" spoken of in Psalms 60:3; comp. Isaiah 51:17 (i.e. a calamitous judgment).

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