And I will punish the world - By the world here is evidently meant the Babylonian empire, in the same way as all the w…

And I will visit upon the world wickedness. Here the Prophet does not speak of the whole world; but as Babylon was the seat of th…

And I will punish the world for [their] evil
Not the whole world, but the kingdom of Babylon, so called because of i…

We have here the terrible desolation of Babylon by the Medes and Persians. Those who in the day of their peace were proud, and haughty, and terribl…

1. The burden of Babylon. Here the prophet threatens the Babylonians, who had captured the two tribes. This is divided into …