Then you shall say, ‘Thus will Babylon sink, and will not rise again because of the evil that I will bring on her; and they will be weary.’” Thus far are the words of Jeremiah.
ExplanationCommentary
Verse 64. Sink. The angel did the like; (Revelation 18:21. Calmet.) and the Phoceans, leaving their country, swore that they would return no more till a piece of red hot iron, which they threw into the sea, should swim. Herod. i. 165.—Thus, and so forth was added by the compiler. Septuagint omit the sentence, as what relates to Babylon is place Calmet. 28 in their copies. Calmet.—Yet Grabe puts it in a different character. Bible.—Jeremias wrote a great deal, after the 4th year of Sedecias, verse 59. Calmet.—He here finished his predictions against Babylon. Worthington.—This does not mean that he did not write the next chapter, ( Menochius.) as Cappel allows, (Houbig.) though this may still be doubted. Bible.