Verse 12
Your mother shall be sore confounded ,.... The monarchy of the Chaldeans; so the Targum and jarchi, your congregation; or rather their metropolis, their mother city, the city of Babylon; which would be confounded when taken, none of her sons being able to defend her: the same will be true of mystical Babylon, the mother of harlots, Revelation 17:5 ;
she that bare you shall be ashamed ; which is the same as before, in different words:
behold, the hindermost of the nations shall be a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert ; or, as the Vulgate Latin version, "she shall be the last among the nations"; she that was the head of them, signified by the head of gold in Nebuchadnezzar's image, shall now be the tail of them, and become like a dry land and desert, without inhabitants, having neither men nor cattle in it; see Jeremiah 50:3 ; or, as Jarchi and Kimchi, their end, "the latter end" F13 אחרית גוים "finis seu extremitas gentium", Vatablus, Montanus, Schmidt. of the kingdom of Babylon; or what should befall that people in their last days would be, that their land should become a wilderness, the habitants being slain, and none to till it; or Babylon is called the last of the nations, because her punishment, in order of time, was last, as Gussetius F14 Comment. Ebr. p. 30. thinks; Jeremiah 25:26 .
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