At the noise of the taking of Babylon the earth is moved, and the cry is heard among the nations.
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Gill's Exposition
At the noise of the taking of Babylon the earth is moved,.... It being so sudden and unexpected, and so very astonishing:
and the cry is heard among the nations; that Babylon is fallen; which, as…
A similar application to Babylon of what was said of Edom (marginal reference).
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…
Cambridge Bible
At the noise of the taking of Babylon rather, At the tidings(viz. that) Babylon is taken.
among the nations no longer merely to the Red Sea (as in Jer 49:21).
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