Jeremiah 50:35

A sword is upon the Chaldeans, saith the Lord ,.... Or, "shall be" F11 "Erit", Abarbinel; "irruet", Junius & Tremellius, Piscator. or, "O sword, be thou on the Chaldeans" F12 חרב על כשדים "gladie, super Chaldaeos, scil. veni, ades", Schmidt. ; that is, the sword of the Medes and Persians; those that kill with the sword, as the Targum; in the mystic sense, the Christian princes that shall draw the sword against the antichristian states:

and upon the inhabitants of Babylon ; the metropolis of Chaldea; the common people in it, as distinguished from those of high rank and degree following:

and upon her princes ; Belshazzar and his nobles, who were slain the night Babylon was taken:

and upon her wise men ; prime ministers, politicians, and counsellors of state; neither high birth nor great wisdom can secure from the sword of the enemy, when it has a commission from God, as it had here.