Jeremiah 50:45 (KJV)

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Therefore hear ye the counsel of the LORD that he hath taken against Babylon and his purposes that he hath purposed against the land of the Chaldeans Surely the least of the flock shall draw them out surely he shall make their habitation desolate with them

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hear. Jer 51:10 Jer 51:11 Ps 33:10 Ps 33:11 Isa 14:24-27 Isa 46:10 Isa 46:11 Ac 4:28 Eph 1:11 Re 17:16 Re 17:17

the least. Jer 37:10 Jer 49:20

surely he.We have already adverted to the completion of the prophecies respecting the final destruction of Babylon, (on Isa 13:18,) and shall only add a few more observations, in order to shew more clearly the full accomplishment of some of these predictions. Strabo says that in his time (about the Christian era) a great part of it was a desert. Jerome says that in his time (cir. A.D. 340) it was quite in ruins, the walls merely serving for an inclosure for wild beasts, for the hunting of the kings of Parthia: and modern travellers universally concur in describing it in a state of utter desolation, and the habitation of wild beasts and noxious reptiles.

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