A we see here he now starts to prophecy about judgment against all the nations. Philistines will see the viper spiting venom, Babylon will see the day of the Lord with His fierce anger and destroying all the sinners. They will overthrown just like Sodom and Gomorrah. But God will have compassion on the house of Jacob and they will make captive their captors.
I like the title they gave this. Babylons Satan like fall. Even the pine trees will rejoice one you have been taken down. The graves give a cheer to see you coming, Babylon you are weak and fallen from heaven. Basically the world will rejoice when Babylon falls.
God will judge all of their sins as well as our sins. Babylon was so prosperous but it will be all taken away from them in a blink of an eye. Other nations looked up to them, but they will no longer. Those other nations needed to look into their own doings before they looked on at Babylon. Just as we today. W#e tend to look at other people and see them being prosperous and we say oh they must be right with the Lord. But that is not always true. We can not judge pother people based on how much they have or not have. That is NOT how God judges us and neither should we.
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