Matthew Poole and continuators on Jeremiah 51:46

46 And lest your hearts faint, and ye fear for the rumour that shall be heard in the land : a rumour shall both come one year, and after that in another year shall come a rumour, and violence in the land, ruler against ruler c.

And lest they should be affrighted by the Succession of Evils year after year that should come upon Babylon. Some think it were better translated, And let not your hearts faint. Though you should hear of Cyrus his coming year after year, yet faint not (for they say Cyrus was one year preparing, and that he spent the second year in passing through Assyria, so as he came not at Babylon till the third year) no not though you should see or hear of successive troubles, and a great deal of violence in the land by the opposition of great Princes one to another, for none of them shall do you any harm, but this doth not so well sute[illegible: 1 letter] to the former verse, where they are bidden to make haste out, and to save their own lives, I do therefore prefer the sense of our interpreters and their Translation of it, as making another Argument to perswade them to make haste out, because they would by reason of the successive evils year after year coming upon the Babylonians live there very troublesome and uneasie lives.