For many nations and great kings shall serve themselves of them also: and I will recompense them according to their deeds, and according to the works of their own hands.
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Gill's Exposition
For many nations and great kings shall serve themselves of them also,.... Take their cities, seize upon the kingdoms, spoil them of their wealth and riches, and bring them into servitude to them:…
Barnes' Notes
Shall serve themselves of them also - i. e., shall impose forced labor upon the Chaldaeans, and reduce them also to servitude.
Here is the sentence grounded upon the foregoing charge: "Because you have not heard my words, I must take another course with you," Jer 25:8. Note, When men will not regard the judgments of God's…
Cambridge Bible
shall serve themselves of them, even of them lit. shall work by(means of) them, i.e. shall use them as slaves. As the Chaldaeans have done to the people of God, so shall He requite them.
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