Matthew Poole and continuators on Jeremiah 50:23

23 How is the hammer of the whole earth cut asunder and broken? how is Babylon become a desolation among the nations ?

The latter part of the verse expounds the former, God had made the Babylonians his Hammer, to break other Nations in pieces, now it was it self broken, the particle how? may be understood either as expressing triumph and rejoycing, or admiration, or as inquiring how such a thing could be in the last sense, the next verse is an answer to this.

Marginal references: chap. 51.20.