Jeremiah 50:35-37 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

A sword is upon the Chaldeans That is, there shall come a sword upon them. Upon Babylon and her princes Who were slain together with their king, Belshazzar, at a feast, Jeremiah 51:39; Daniel 5:2-30. And upon her wise men The Chaldeans were famous for their skill in astrology, and other arts of divination; and yet the learned in those sciences were not able to foresee or prevent the dangers coming upon themselves in the common calamity. A sword is upon the liars Upon the diviners, or the pretenders to the knowledge of future events; and they shall dote They shall be proved to be foolish and ignorant, by things happening directly contrary to what they had thought and said. Thus Isaiah, speaking of the same kind of men, says, He (namely, God) frustrateth the tokens of the liars, and maketh diviners mad. A sword is upon all the mingled people Upon her auxiliaries, made up of several nations: see Ezekiel 30:5. And they shall become as women Fearful, and having neither courage nor any thing else manly in them. A sword is upon her treasures, &c. “Her treasures shall be a prey to such as come with sword in hand to rifle them: as Solon said to Crœsus, who, by way of ostentation, showed him his treasures, “Sir, if any one come that has better iron than you, he will be master of all your gold.” Lowth.