The broad walls of Babylon] Or, the walls of broad Babylon. The walls are reported by some to have been fifty foot, by others, fiftie cubits thick: the citie being built square, a hundred and twenty furlongs wide. See on vers. 53. shall be utterly broken] Or, made naked. Heb. breaking down broken down. or, stripping stript. Made bare of defendants. Or, laid levell with the ground, Chap. 50. 15. Vers. 44. the people shall labour in vain, and the folk in the fire, and they shall be wearie] The people shall labour for vanitie (so the Hebrew) and the folk, untill they tire themselves, for the fire. as some are said to breed children for the sword, Job 27:14. and Ephraim for the murderer, Hosea 9:13. See Isaiah 66:23. Habakkuk 2:13. Thus all the pains, that people have taken, wearying and wearing out themselves about the building of Babylon, shall be in vain, and produce nothing but fewel for the fire, vers. 25.