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I will render to Babylon and to all the inhabitants of Chaldea all their evil that they have done in Zion in your sight, says Yahweh.
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God's Tool, Babylon's Guilt
Commentators explain the seeming contradiction of God punishing Babylon for carrying out His will. While God used Babylon as an instrument to discipline Judah, Babylon acted with its own evil motives and excessive cruelty. Therefore, God justly holds them accountable for the evil they committed in Zion.
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Jeremiah
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16th Century
Protestant
The Prophet, after having reminded the Jews that all they had suffered from the Babylonians had been justly inflicted on account of their sins, and…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And I will render to Babylon, and to all the inhabitants of Chaldea Or, "but I will r…
Presbyterian
The particulars of this prophecy are dispersed and interwoven, and the same themes are left and then returned to. Babylon is abundant in treasures,…
