Matthew Poole and continuators on Jeremiah 50:11

11 Because ye were glad, because ye rejoyced , O ye destroyers of mine heritage , because ye are grown fat, as the heifer at grass, and bellow as bulls .

They rejoyced at the ruine of the Iews, the same thing is laid to the charge of the Edomites, Obadiah 12. The Chaldeans were Gods Rod to scourge the Iewes, but when men are made use of by God, as his Rod and scourge, they ought not to put off Humanity, but to behave themselves decently, and as persons that are sensible of the miseries which their brethren suffer.

God calls them his heritage, because they formerly were a people whom he owned above all other people.

Marginal references: Heb. big▪ [illegible: 1 word] corpulent.; Or, Neigh as [illegible: 2 letters]eeds.; There is some difference amongst critical interpreters, whether the heifer here mentioned be to be understood of a heifer at grass (as we translate it) or an heifer used to tread out the Corn, or whether it be to be understood of a horse-neighing, (as the words may be interpreted) or an heifer. But these are things of very small moment. The cause for which Baby[illegible: 1 letter]on is threatned, was doubtless their luxury of all sorts commonly attending great wealth and prosperity meeting with hearts unsanctified.