John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 51:2
And I will send unto Babylon farmers, that shall fan her, and shall empty her land ,.... Or, "strangers that shall fan her" F3 זרים "alienos", Cocceius; some in Vatablus; so Kimchi, Ben Melech, Abendana. ; meaning the Medes and Persians, who should be like a strong wind upon the mountains, where corn, having been threshed, was fanned, and the chaff carried away by the wind; and such would the Chaldeans be in the hand of the Persians, scattered and dispersed among the nations as chaff... read more
Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Jeremiah 51:1-58
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): Babylon hath been a golden cup, a rich and glorious empire, a golden city (Isa. 14:4), a head of gold... read more