Matthew Poole and continuators on Jeremiah 50:40

40 As God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and the neighbour cities thereof, saith the LORD: so shall no man abide there , neither shall any son of man dwell therein.

The substance of both these verses is, that Babylon should be totally ruined, as Sodom and Gomorrah so as there should be no Habitations for men, but wild beasts onely of all sorts should inhabit and lodge in it. The fulfilling of this we have not in holy Writ, only the beginning of its accomplishment, it being taken by Cyrus who only made them Tributaries, and took away their Government. But they rebelling against the Emperour of the Medes, Dari[illegible: 1 letter]s Hystaspis a succeeding Emperour pulled down their walls. And about 250 years after Seleucus Nicanor a Grecian Prince the Medes being before conquered by Alexander the Great, utterly destroyed Babylon, so as in the time of Hadrian the Roman Emperour, there was nothing left standing of that great City but some pieces of walls.

Marginal references: Gen▪ 19.2[illegible: 1 letter]. Isa. 13.19. chap. 49.18.