Daughter of Babylon, doomed to destruction, he will be happy who rewards you, as you have served us.
KJV
O daughter of Babylon, who art to be destroyed; happy shall he be, that rewardeth thee as thou hast served us.
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Commentary
O daughter of Babylon, who art to be destroyed,.... By the determinate counsel and decree of God, and according to divine predictions; see
Jer 50:1
; so mystical Babylon, antichrist, and the man of sin, who therefore is called the son of perdition,
Th2 2:3
; because appointed to destruction, and shall certainly go into it,
Rev 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,
Jer 51:25
; and of mystical Babylon, the destroyer both of the bodies and souls of men,
Rev 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,
Jer 50:15
; and in so doing pronounced happy, being the Lord's shepherd, raised up in righteousness to perform his pleasure,
Isa 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,
Rev 18:6
.
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