Jeremiah 51:43

43 Her cities are a desolation, A dry land and a wilderness, A land where no one dwells, Through which no son of man passes.

Jeremiah 51:43 Meaning and Commentary

Jeremiah 51:43

Her cities are a desolation, a dry land, and a wilderness,
&c.] Which some understand of Babylon itself, divided into two parts by the river Euphrates running in the midst of it, called by Berosus ^F6 the inward and outward cities; though rather these design the rest of the cities in Chaldea, of which Babylon was the metropolis, the mother city, and the other her daughters, which should share the same fate with herself; be demolished, and the ground on which they stood become a dry, barren, uncultivated, and desert land: a land wherein no man dwelleth, neither doth [any] son of man pass
thereby;
having neither inhabitant nor traveller; see ( Jeremiah 50:12 Jeremiah 50:39 ) .

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FOOTNOTES:

F6 Apud Joseph. contr. Apion, l. 1. c. 19.

Jeremiah 51:43 In-Context

41 "Oh, how Sheshach is taken! Oh, how the praise of the whole earth is seized! How Babylon has become desolate among the nations!

42 The sea has come up over Babylon; She is covered with the multitude of its waves.

43 Her cities are a desolation, A dry land and a wilderness, A land where no one dwells, Through which no son of man passes.

44 I will punish Bel in Babylon, And I will bring out of his mouth what he has swallowed; And the nations shall not stream to him anymore. Yes, the wall of Babylon shall fall.

45 "My people, go out of the midst of her! And let everyone deliver himself from the fierce anger of the Lord.