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In the midst of them that rise up against me - Or, in Leb-kamai, the cipher for Kasdim, i.e., Chaldaea.
This cipher was no…

I will raise up ... a destroying wind. —Literally, the wind of a destroyer. In Haggai 1:14; Ezra 1:1;[Reference Ezra 1…

He proceeds with the same subject. Jeremiah seems, indeed, to have used more words than necessary; but we have stated the reason why he spoke at le…

Thus says the Lord, behold, I will raise up against Babylon ,
&c.] This is not a new prophecy, but a continuation of…

The particulars of this prophecy are dispersed and interwoven, and the same themes are left and then returned to. Babylon is abundant in treasures,…
Albert Barnes
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