46At the noise of the taking of Babylon the earth is moved, and the cry is heard among the nations.
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The earth is moved at the noise of their fall, at the cry the noise thereof was heard in the Red sea.
Now shall the isles tremble in the day of thy fall; yea, the isles that are in the sea shall be troubled at thy departure.
And the kings of the earth, who have committed fornication and lived deliciously with her, shall bewail her, and lament for her, when they shall see the smoke of her burning, …
I made the nations to shake at the sound of his fall, when I cast him down to hell with them that descend into the pit: and all the trees of Eden, the choice and best of Lebanon, all that drink water, shall be comforted in the nether parts of the earth.
Yea, I will make many people amazed at thee, and their kings shall be horribly afraid for thee, when I shall brandish my sword before them; and they shall tremble at every moment, every man for his own life, in the day of thy fall.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 33-46)We have in these verses, I. Israel’s sufferings, and their deliverance out of those sufferings. God takes notice of the bondage of his people in Babylon, as he did of their bondage in Egypt; he has surely seen it, and has heard their cry. Israel and Judah were oppressed together , Jer. 50:33. Those that remained of the captives of the ten tribes, upon the uniting of the kingdoms of Assyria and Cha…
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