Jeremiah 51:18
They are vanity, the work of errors: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.
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Gill's Exposition
Thou art my battle axe and weapons of war,.... This is said by the Lord, either to Cyrus, as some, to which our version inclines, whom God made use of as an instrument to subdue nations and kingdoms,…
The particulars of this copious prophecy are dispersed and interwoven, and the same things left and returned to so often that it could not well be divided into parts, but we must endeavor to collect…
These vv. are taken almost verbatimfrom Jer 10:12-16. The object of the insertion is to emphasize the powerlessness of Babylon's idols against Jehovah.
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