Jeremiah 50:31
Behold, I am against thee, O thou most proud, saith the Lord GOD of hosts: for thy day is come, the time that I will visit thee.
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Gill's Exposition
Behold, I am against thee, O thou most proud, saith the Lord God of hosts,.... Or, O "pride", or O "man of pride" (i); intolerably proud, superlatively so, as the kings of Babylon were, as…
Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870
Barnes' Notes
Babylon is here called Pride, just as in Jer 50:21 she was called Double-rebellion.
Here, 1. The forces are mustered and commissioned to destroy Babylon, and every thing is got ready for a descent upon that potent kingdom: Go up against that land by Merathaim, the country of the…
O thou proud one … the proud one Heb. as mg. (O Prideand Priderespectively), applied as a proper name to Babylon. With these vv. cp. Jer 21:13 f.
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