Thus the slain shall fall in the land of the Chaldeans, and they that are thrust through in her streets.

And the slain shall fall in the land of the Chaldeans, and the wounded in the regions thereof.

And the slain shall fall in the land of the Chaldeans, and they that are thrust through in her streets.

And fallen have the wounded in the land of the Chaldeans, And the pierced-through in her streets.

And the dead will be stretched out in the land of the Chaldaeans, and the wounded in her streets.

And the slain will fall in the land of the Chaldeans, and the wounded in its regions.

Et cadent vulnerati in terra ejus (in terra Casdin) et transfixi (vel, confossi) in compitis ejus.

HE proceeds with what we began yesterday to explain, -- that the time was nigh when God would take vengeance on the Babylonians. As, then, this could not be without great destruction in a city so very populous, and as it could not be overthrown except calamity extended itself through the whole country, hence, he says, that though Babylon should prepare great and powerful armies, it would yet be in vain, because they shall fall, he says, wounded everywhere in the land; and then he adds, and pierced through in her streets By these words he means, that the Chaldeans would be slain not only in the open fields, but also in the midst of the city. he afterwards adds, --

Translate it: "And they," i. e., the young men who form her host Jeremiah 51:3, "shall fall slain in the land of the Chaldaeans, and pierced through in her streets," i. e., the streets of Babylon.

Thus the slain shall fall in the land of the Chaldeans,.... By the sword, or by the arrows and darts of the Medes and Persians:
and they that are thrust through in her streets; either by the one or by the other, especially the latter, since they only are mentioned; See Gill on Jeremiah 50:30.

(See on Jeremiah 49:26; Jeremiah 50:30; Jeremiah 50:37).