Introduction
As already stated, this chapter, in great part if not in the whole of it, is but a continuation of the preceding. The closing thought there coheres specially with that of the first three verses here, namely, that providential dealing in this world is primarily with reference to God’s Church on earth. This judgment on Babylon was to prepare the way for Israel’s becoming the centre of the future of the kingdom of God on earth. Delitzsch says, we have in a nutshell the whole of chapters xl to lxvi in verses one and two of this chapter.
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