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Jeremiah 51:57

Jeremiah 51:57
And I will make drunk her princes, and her wise men, her captains, and her rulers, and her mighty men: and they shall sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith the King, whose name is the LORD of hosts.

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

The word which Jeremiah the prophet commanded Seraiah,.... This word is no other than the above prophecy concerning the destruction of Babylon, contained in this and the preceding chapter; or rather…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

Jeremiah 51:1-58

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…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

her governors and her deputies Cp. Jer 51:51; Jer 51:51, and for the latter part see on Jer 51:51.