Jeremiah 51:43

43 Her cities have become desolate - parched, arid land, a land where no one lives; nobody even passes through.

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 Sheshakh has been captured, the pride of the whole earth seized! Bavel has become an object of horror throughout the nations!

42 The sea has flooded Bavel, overwhelmed her with its raging waves.

43 Her cities have become desolate - parched, arid land, a land where no one lives; nobody even passes through.

44 "I will punish Bel in Bavel and make him disgorge what he swallowed. The nations will no longer flow to him. Bavel's wall will fall.

45 Get out of her, my people! Each one, save yourself from ADONAI's furious anger!