Matthew Poole and continuators on Jeremiah 51:6

6 Flee out of the midst of Babylon, and deliver every man his own soul: be not cut off in her iniquity : for this is the time of the LORDS vengeance, he will render unto her a recompence .

It is a matter of no great moment whether we understand these words as spoken to the Jews in the Captivity of Babylon, as chap. 50.8. or to those whom the Chaldeans had hired to help them. Or to such strangers as for their secular advantages lived in Babylon, by Soul here seemeth to be meant Life, and by Iniquity the punishment of the Babylonians iniquity (as the Heb. word oft signifies) though in the New Testament these words be used as a monition to people to separat from the Idolatries of mystical Babylon, yet they seeth here to be onely a warning to others to remove out of the reach of Babylons fall.

For the time is come when God hath determined to take vengeance on Babylon, and to recompence to her all her sin, and that cruelty which she shewed to the Jews in particular.

Marginal references: Rev. 18.4.; chap. 50.15, 28.