I will make drunk her princes. — The imagery is repeated from Jeremiah 51:39, and carries out the thought of Jeremiah 25:…

Jeremiah pursues the same subject; he said yesterday that desolators would come to destroy Babylon. He now confirms this by an illustration, as God…

And I will make drunk her princes
With the wine of divine wrath; that is, slay them; though there may be an allusion…

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