54A sound of a cry cometh from Babylon, and great destruction from the land of the Chaldeans:
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A sound of battle is in the land, and of great destruction.
A voice of crying shall be from Horonaim, spoiling and great destruction. …
At the noise of the taking of Babylon the earth is moved, and the cry is heard among the nations.
Slay all her bullocks; let them go down to the slaughter: woe unto them! for their day is come, the time of their visitation.
And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the LORD, that there shall be the noise of a cry from the fish gate, and an howling from the second, and a great crashing from the hills.
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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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