“It is he who made the earth by his power, who established the world by his wisdom, and by his understanding stretched out the heavens.
The Prophet calls up the power of God not for display but for comfort: the Jews must lift their minds above Babylon's dazzling splendor to see that God alone will bring it down by means beyond all human reckoning. Without this view of His incomprehensible power, they could never credit the prophecy.
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Babylon was once a golden cup in the Lord's hand, filled with His favor, but also His battle-axe to break nations. Those that carry all before them a great while will yet meet their match; even Babylon's day will come, and it too shall fall.
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Commenting on Jeremiah 51:1-58
God is here set forth by His sovereignty, power, and wisdom to expose the stupidity of those who trust in idols and the utter vanity of them. The Lord who has determined Babylon's destruction will surely effect it; no idol has any power to prevent it.
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