Matthew Poole and continuators on Jeremiah 50:12

12 Your mother shall be sore confounded, she that bare you shall be ashamed : behold, the hindermost of the nations shall be a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert.

Your chief City Babylon, or your Country, which is the common Mother of all the Chaldeans shall be destroyed, or shall be ashamed of you, who are not able to defend her.

The sense here seems a little difficult, because it appears no such strange thing that the hindermost of the Nations should be a Wilderness. It is therefore probable that the words shall be, are to be understood before the hindermost of the Nations, our Translation supplieth them after, so the reading will be it shall be the hindermost of the nations, a wilderness, &c. That is, Babylon, that hath been so famous, and accounted the head of the Nations, shall become the meanest of all Nations, a meer Wilderness, and a dry land, and a Desert.