John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 51:43
Her cities are a desolation, a dry land, and a wilderness ,.... Which some understand of Babylon itself, divided into two parts by the river Euphrates running in the midst of it, called by Berosus F6 Apud Joseph. contr. Apion, l. 1. c. 19. the inward and outward cities; though rather these design the rest of the cities in Chaldea, of which Babylon was the metropolis, the mother city, and the other her daughters, which should share the same fate with herself; be demolished, and the... 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