John Trapp on Jeremiah 50:1

CHAP. L.

Ver. 1. THe word that the Lord ſpake againſt Babylon] Which was built by Nimrod: as Ninive was afterwards by his nephew Ninus, Gen. 10.11. Of the greatneſſe of this City, beſides what we read in holy writ, much may be read in Herodotus and Pliny. It was the head-City of the Aſſyrian and Chaldaean Monarchy, which laſted above 1700. years, till Cyrus the Perſian took the Kingdom. Eſay propheſied againſt it in ſeveral Chapters. Habakkuk maketh it his whole buſineſſe. Jeremy had ſet forth how Sheſhak, that is Balthaſar, ſhould drink the dregs of the cup of Gods wrath, chap. 25.26. Here, and in the next Chapter, he diſcourſeth it more at large, ſhewing how it was that Babylon was to drink of that cup; and for more certainty, it is ſpoken of in this propheſie as already done.