John Gill Commentary Jeremiah 50:31

"Behold, I am against thee, O thou proud one, saith the Lord, Jehovah of hosts; for thy day is come, the time that I will visit thee." — Jeremiah 50:31 (ASV)

Behold, I [am] against thee, [O you] most proud, says the
Lord God of hosts
Or, O "pride", or O "man of pride" ^F9 ; intolerably proud, superlatively so, as the kings of Babylon were, as Nebuchadnezzar, and Belshazzar likewise, the present king; so the Targum interprets it of a king, ``behold, I send my fury against thee, O wicked king;''

and is applicable enough to the man of sin, that monster of pride, that exalts himself above all that is called God, or is worshipped, (2 Thessalonians 2:4) ; and therefore it is no wonder that the Lord is against him, who resists all that are proud; and woe to him and them that he is against:

for the day is come, the time [that] I will visit thee ; in a way of vindictive wrath and justice, for pride and other this; see (Jeremiah 50:27) .

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FOOTNOTES:

• F9: (Nwdz) Heb. "superbia", Schmidt; vel "vir superbiae", Piscator; so Abarbinel.