42The sea is come up upon Babylon: she is covered with the multitude of the waves thereof.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Now therefore, behold, the Lord bringeth up upon them the waters of the river, strong and many, even the king of Assyria, and all his glory: and he shall come up over all his channels, and go over all his banks: …
And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.
The floods have lifted up, O LORD, the floods have lifted up their voice; the floods lift up their waves.
Thy rowers have brought thee into great waters: the east wind hath broken thee in the midst of the seas. …
The sorrows of death compassed me, and the floods of ungodly men made me afraid.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-58)The particulars of this copious prophecy are dispersed and interwoven, and the same things left and returned to so often that it could not well be divided into parts, but we must endeavor to collect them under their proper heads. Let us then observe here, I. An acknowledgment of the great pomp and power that Babylon had been in and the use that God in his providence had made of it (Jer. 51:7): Bab…
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