Matthew Poole and continuators on Jeremiah 51:53

53 Though Babylon should mount up to heaven, and though she should fortifie the height of her strength, yet from me shall spoilers come unto her, saith the LORD .

We are very prone to measure things by the measures of our own Reasons, and to judge of events which are to be the effects of Divine Power, by humane probabilities, therefore God is put to use many words to the same purpose; he saw the Iews saying in their hearts, How can these things be? Babylon hath impregnable Walls▪ two hundred foot high (so Historians report) and of a great breadth, and it hath very strong, and high Towers; God by his Prophet tells them, that if they could mount up as high as Heaven, if they could make their Towers much stronger than they were, yet the Spoilers were to come from him, and he could and would send spoilers, who would pull down her Walls, and break down her Towers.

Marginal references: Obad. 4.