Confounded ... confounded - ashamed ... ashamed.

Merodach - This deity, in the inscriptions Marduk, was the tutelary god of Ba…

Set up a standard. —Better, lift up a signal. The noun is the same as in Jeremiah 4:6; Jeremiah 4:21.…

He predicts the ruin of Babylon, not in simple words, because nothing seemed then more unreasonable than to announce the things which God eventuall…

Declare you among the nations
The taking of Babylon; a piece of news, in which the nations of the world had a concer…

The king of Babylon was kind to Jeremiah, yet the prophet must foretell the ruin of that kingdom. If our friends are God's enemies, we dare not spe…