Verse 36
Because of what Babylon had done to Judah, the Lord promised to act as her defense attorney and to get Babylon to pay full damages. He would dry up her broad river, the Euphrates, the source of her agricultural fertility.
"The LORD’s promised victory over ’her sea’ and ’her fountain’ recalls the LORD’s victory over sea at creation and in the Exodus (Exodus 15:8; Psalms 74:13-14; Psalms 89:9-10; Isaiah 27:1)." [Note: Smothers, p. 371.]
"Many expositors understand these words metaphorically, as referring to the sea of nations surging in Babylon (Jeremiah 51:42; Jeremiah 51:55), and view the treasures and riches as the fountain from which the sea of nations sprang up (Hitzig); but the context demands a literal interpretation, inasmuch as in Jeremiah 51:37 the subject treated of is the laying waste of the country." [Note: Keil, 2:307.]
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