Jeremiah 51:43

43 Her cities have become an object of horror, a land of drought and a desert, a land in which no one lives, and through which no mortal 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 How Sheshach is taken, the pride of the whole earth seized! How Babylon has become an object of horror among the nations!

42 The sea has risen over Babylon; she has been covered by its tumultuous waves.

43 Her cities have become an object of horror, a land of drought and a desert, a land in which no one lives, and through which no mortal passes.

44 I will punish Bel in Babylon, and make him disgorge what he has swallowed. The nations shall no longer stream to him; the wall of Babylon has fallen.

45 Come out of her, my people! Save your lives, each of you, from the fierce anger of the Lord!