Sheshach - Babylon: see the Jeremiah 51:1 note.

Surprised - i.e., seized, captured.

How is Sheshach taken! —“Sheshach,” it will be remembered, is the cypher which, as explained in the Note on Jeremiah 25:2…

Here the wonder expressed by the Prophet served to confirm what he had said, for he thus dispelled those things that usually disturbed the minds of…

How is Sheshach taken ! &c.] Not the city Shushan, as Sir John Marsham thinks ^F5 ; but Babylon, as is plain fr…

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