John Gill Commentary Jeremiah 51:43

"Her cities are become a desolation, a dry land, and a desert, a land wherein no man dwelleth, neither doth any son of man pass thereby." — Jeremiah 51:43 (ASV)

Her cities are a desolation, a dry land, and a wilderness ,
&c.] Which some understand of Babylon itself, divided into two parts by the river Euphrates running in the midst of it, called by Berosus ^F6 the inward and outward cities; though rather these design the rest of the cities in Chaldea, of which Babylon was the metropolis, the mother city, and the other her daughters, which should share the same fate with herself; be demolished, and the ground on which they stood become a dry, barren, uncultivated, and desert land: a land wherein no man dwells, neither does [any] son of man pass
thereby ;
having neither inhabitant nor traveller; see (Jeremiah 50:12Jeremiah 50:39) .

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FOOTNOTES:

• F6: Apud Joseph. contr. Apion, l. 1. c. 19.