Jeremias 50:40

As God overthrew Sodom... — The whole verse is reproduced from Jeremias 49:18. We enter here, indeed, upon a mosaic of quotations, or at least recollections of other prophecies. Thus Jeremias 50:41 are taken from Jeremias 6:22, “Babylon” being substituted for “Zion,” and “the king of Babylon” for “we;” Jeremias 50:44 from Jeremias 49:19, with the necessary substitutions of “Babylon” for “Edom,” the Chaldeans” for “Teman,” “among the nations” for “in the Red sea.” The reader is referred accordingly to the Notes on those passages. The reproduction in identical terms is probably connected with the thoughts of the retribution, on which the prophet dwells in Jeremias 50:15. All that she had done Babylon was now to suffer.