And thou saidst, I shall be a lady for ever
That her monarchy would continue in a succession of kings, that
should rule over all nations to the end of the world. So mystical
Babylon, when near her ruin, will say, "I sit a queen----and
shall see no sorrow", ( Revelation
18:7 ) : so that thou didst not lay these things to thy
heart;
neither the sins she had been guilty of, particularly in acting
the cruel part towards the people of God; nor the evils foretold
should come upon her; these she did not consider of and think
upon, so as to repent of the one, and prevent the other:
neither didst remember the latter end of it;
or, "thy latter end" F6; either her own latter end, the end
of her wickedness which she had committed, as Jarchi; the end of
her pride, that she should be humbled, as Aben Ezra and Kimchi;
or her ruin and destruction, the end she should come to at last;
this she never thought of, but put this evil day far from her: or
she remembered not the latter end of Jerusalem, who, though a
lady too, fell by her own hand; which sense Kimchi takes notice
of: or she did not consider what would befall the Jews in the
latter day; that God would put an end to their calamities, and
deliver them out of Babylon, as he had foretold.