Matthew Poole and continuators on Jeremiah 5:10

10 ¶ Go ye up upon her walls, and destroy; but make not a full end: take away her battlements; for they are not the LORDS.

The Babylonians, go now execute my vengeance on them. I give them up into your hands, behold I give you a Commission.

I permit and order you not only to take the City, but make havock of her inhabitants, Isa. 10.6.

Though God give them a large Commission to destroy, yet he puts in a limitation, that he will reserve a remnant from destruction, he sets bounds to the most raging adversary beyond which he must not pass, see on chap. 14.27.

Lay her and all her fortifications level with the ground, take away her counterscarp, or high Towers, or whatsoever may tend to the defence of a City, to let Ierusalem know, that she did but in vain trust to her high Walls and strong Towers; and Battlements may as well be taken for the foundation of her Walls, which spread wider then the Wall it self, the word of the Prophet useth, signifies things that spread, and thus it agrees with the scope, that is describing the utter overthrow and eradicating of it. so LXX take away her suppor[illegible: 1 letter]s.

[illegible: 1 letter] undertake their defence no longer, I disown them, take my protection from them, and give them up into your hands, O ye Chaldaeans, though they make their boast that they are sheltered under my wing, and protection, because there was the Temple, and Altar, but they will find themselves deceived, for I disown them.