Therefore thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will plead thy cause, and take vengeance for thee; and I will dry up her sea, and make her springs dry.
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Gill's Exposition
They shall roar together like lions,.... Some understand this of the Medes and Persians, and the shouts they made at the attacking and taking of Babylon; but this does not so well agree with that,…
Barnes' Notes
Her sea - Probably the great lake dug by Nitocris to receive the waters of the Euphrates. Her springs - Her reservoir; the whole system of canals dug Jer 51:13. The wealth of Babylonia depended upon…
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…
Cambridge Bible
Jehovah replies favourably to the demand for vengeance on Babylon.
her sea … her fountain either the Euphrates (cp. the word "sea" as applied to the river Nile in Isa 18:2; Isa 19:5; Nah 3:8) or,…
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