Matthew Poole and continuators on Jeremiah 51:1

1 THus saith the LORD, Behold, I will raise up against Babylon, and against them that dwell in the midst of them that rise up against me, a destroying wind .

In this chapter the prophesie of the destruction of Babylon is continued under new Metaphors, he begins with that of a Wind, a destroying Wind, (as northerly winds are ordinarily very pernicious,) but the Hebrew idiom so ill suiteth that of other Languages that it is no easie matter positively to assert the sense of the words used. In the Hebrew they are and to, or against those that inhabit the heart of those that rise up. Some would have it those that are wise in their own opinion and are therefore said to dwell in their heart. Others, those that are secure, but the best Interpreters judge our Translation to have best hit the sense,—them that dwell in the heart, i. e. that is in the midst of the Caldeans who are here said to have risen up against God, to strive against God, chap. 50.24.

Marginal references: Heb. in the heart.