Verse 8
O daughter of Babylon, who art to be destroyed ,.... By the determinate counsel and decree of God, and according to divine predictions; see Jeremiah 50:1 ; so mystical Babylon, antichrist, and the man of sin, who therefore is called the son of perdition, 2 Thessalonians 2:3 ; because appointed to destruction, and shall certainly go into it, Revelation 17:8 ; or "O thou destroyer", as the Targum, which paraphrases it thus,
"Gabriel, the prince of Zion, said to the Babylonish nation that spoileth or destroyeth;'
which is true of literal Babylon, called the destroying mountain, Jeremiah 51:25 ; and of mystical Babylon, the destroyer both of the bodies and souls of men, Revelation 11:18 ;
happy shall he be that rewardeth thee as thou hast served us ; meaning Darius the Mede, as Kimchi; or rather, or however who must be added, Cyrus the Persian, as R. Obadiah; who were ordered by the Lord to retaliate her, and do as she had done to others, Jeremiah 50:15 ; and in so doing pronounced happy, being the Lord's shepherd, raised up in righteousness to perform his pleasure, Isaiah 44:28 ; and here wished success by the godly Jews. In like manner the Christian princes will reward mystical Babylon, and be the happy instruments of her ruin, Revelation 18:6 .
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