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Jer_50:2 Declare ye among the nations, and publish, and set up a standard; publish, [and] conceal not: say, Babylon is taken, Bel is confounded, Merodach is broken in pieces; her idols are confounded, her images are broken in pieces.
Ver. 2. Declare ye among the nations.] Let all take notice of the good news; there shall be a general jail delivery, sing therefore Io triumphe.
Say, Babylon is taken.] So Isa_21:9.
Bel is confounded.] This Bel was Nimrod, whose nephew Ninus set him up for a god. Merodach (a restorer of their empire, {a} whereof Nimrod had been founder) was likewise idolised. They are called "dirty deities" - foedites et stercora, a name good enough for them - and said to be confounded. See Isa_46:1. "Sorrows" also; because "their sorrows shall be multiplied that hasten after another God." {Psa_16:4}
{a} Merodach óêçðñïõ÷ïò sive Sceptrifer Chaldaica appellatione.