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Jeremiah 50:39

Therefore the wild beasts of the desert with the wild beasts of the islands shall dwell there, and the owls shall dwell therein: and it shall be no more inhabited for ever; neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation.

Wild beasts of the desert - wild cats, remarkable for their howl (Bochart).

Wild beasts of the islands - jackals (note, Isaiah 13:21).

Owls - rather, female ostriches; they delight in solitary places. Literally, daughters of crying. (Compare as to spiritual Babylon, ).

It shall be no more inhabited forever - the accumulation of phrases is to express the final and utter extinction of Babylon; fulfilled not immediately, but by degrees: Cyrus took away its supremacy. Darius Hystaspes deprived it, when it had rebelled, of its fortifications. Seleucus Nicanor removed its citizens and wealth to Seleucia, which he founded in the neighbourhood; and the Parthians removed all that was left to Ctesiphon. Nothing but its walls was left under the Roman emperor Adrian.

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  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

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  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

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  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

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  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

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  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

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  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

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  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

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  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

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  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

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  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

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  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

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  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

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  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

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  • The Pulpit Commentaries

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