Translate it: And they, that is, the young men who form her host (Jeremiah 51:3), shall fall slain in the land of the Chal…

He proceeds with what we began yesterday to explain—that the time was near when God would take vengeance on the Babylonians.

Thus the slain shall fall in the land of the Chaldeans By the sword, or by the arrows and darts of the Medes and Persians…

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