Verses 25-26
25, 26. Destroying mountain The same phrase is used in 2 Kings xxiii, 13, and is translated “mount of corruption.” It is there applied to the southern portion of the mount of Olives, in view of the idolatrous shrines set up by Solomon. Here the phrase is applied to Babylon, and suggests its eminence among the nations, and its power for evil in working physical and moral ruin.
Roll thee down The explanation of this phrase is doubtful. I… will make thee a burnt mountain Literally, a mountain of burning. Language founded on the conception of a volcano. The threat, Thou shalt be desolate forever, falls in well with the notion of a burnt-out mountain, though it means evidently more than that it should be a scene of ruin. It is never more to be used.
They shall not take of thee a stone for a corner, nor a stone for foundations Its history is terminated. Never again are human hopes and interests to be founded on Babylon.
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