They shall hold the bow and the lance: they are cruel, and will not shew mercy: their voice shall roar like the sea, and they shall ride upon horses, every one put in array, like a man to the battle, against thee, O daughter of Babylon.
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Gill's Exposition
They shall hold the bow and the lance,.... Or "spear". The Targum interprets it, "shields"; as many in Cyrus's army had (t); the one an offensive, the other a defensive weapon; or, if bow and lance,…
An application to Babylon of the doom against Jerusalem Jer 6:22-24. Jer 50:41 The coasts of the earth - See the Jer 6:22 note.
We have in these verses,
I. Israel's sufferings, and their deliverance out of those sufferings. God takes notice of the bondage of his people in Babylon, as he did of their bondage in Egypt; he has…
A repetition, with the necessary changes, of Jer 6:22-24, where Jerusalem is the object of the threat. See notes there.
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