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8O daughter of Babylon, who art to be destroyed; happy shall he be, that rewardeth thee as thou hast served us.
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Reward her even as she rewarded you, and double unto her double according to her works: in the cup which she hath filled fill to her double.
And it shall come to pass, when seventy years are accomplished, that I will punish the king of Babylon, and that nation, saith the LORD, for their iniquity, and the land of the Chaldeans, and will make it perpetual desolations. …
That thou shalt take up this proverb against the king of Babylon, and say, How hath the oppressor ceased! the golden city ceased! …
The burden of the desert of the sea. As whirlwinds in the south pass through; so it cometh from the desert, from a terrible land.
And there followed another angel, saying, Babylon is fallen, is fallen, that great city, because she made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 7-9)The pious Jews in Babylon, having afflicted themselves with the thoughts of the ruins of Jerusalem, here please themselves with the prospect of the ruin of her impenitent implacable enemies; but this not from a spirit of revenge, but from a holy zeal for the glory of God and the honour of his kingdom. I. The Edomites will certainly be reckoned with, and all others that were accessaries to the dest…
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