Verses 14-15
14, 15. For your sake Many a time the Jews had possessed signal proofs of divine interference in their behalf. In this Babylonian deliverance, Jehovah’s character occurs to their minds as more than deliverer from earthly enemies. He is the Holy One who spiritually redeems and saves.
I have sent Cyrus and the Medes are instruments sent of God to Babylon; so obviously sent in their behalf that it amounts to a sure token of God’s spiritual not national purpose in the case.
Brought down all their nobles Both verbs, here, are prophetic preterits, implying “nobles” in the sense of foreign merchants living in Babylon for a time the crowd that naturally gathers at a great emporium. These, with the Chaldeans, become fugitives from the city on the invasion of an enemy. See Isaiah 13:14.
Whose cry is in the ships The rivers and canals at Babylon seem to have made the dwellers a maritime people. The cry of sailors conveying away the fleeing people seems referred to.
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