Jeremiah 50:8

Remove out of the midst of Babylon, and go forth out of the land of the Chaldeans,.... This, in the literal sense, is a call to the Jews in Babylon, and in other parts of Chaldea, to go out from…

So firmly did the Jews settle themselves in Babylon under Jeremiah’s counsels, that they were the last to abandon the place. He goats - See Isa 14:9 note.

I. Here is a word spoken against Babylon by him whose works all agree with his word and none of whose words fall to the ground. The king of Babylon had been very kind of Jeremiah, and yet he must…

Having told of the repentance of Israel, and of their sufferings in the land of exile, the prophet now calls upon them to set out upon their return. Cp. Isa 48:20.

be as the he-goats who press to the…