John Gill Commentary Jeremiah 50:35

"A sword is upon the Chaldeans, saith Jehovah, and upon the inhabitants of Babylon, and upon her princes, and upon her wise men." — Jeremiah 50:35 (ASV)

A sword [is] upon the Chaldeans, says the Lord
Or, "shall be" ^F11 or, "O sword, [be you] on the Chaldeans" ^F12 ; that is, the sword of the Medes and Persians; those that kill with the sword, as the Targum; in the mystic sense, the Christian princes that shall draw the sword against the antichristian states: and upon the inhabitants of Babylon ;
the metropolis of Chaldea; the common people in it, as distinguished from those of high rank and degree following:

and upon her princes ;
Belshazzar and his nobles, who were slain the night Babylon was taken:

and upon her wise [men] ;
prime ministers, politicians, and counsellors of state; neither high birth nor great wisdom can secure from the sword of the enemy, when it has a commission from God, as it had here.

---

FOOTNOTES:

• F11: "Erit", Abarbinel; "irruet", Junius & Tremellius, Piscator.
• F12: (Mydvk le brx) "gladie, super Chaldaeos, scil. veni, ades", Schmidt.