Jeremiah 50:8 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Remove out of the midst of Babylon All exhortation often used by the prophets on this subject: see the margin. Some learned men suppose that this exhortation relates to the siege of Babylon carried on by Darius Hystaspes in the fifth and sixth years of his reign. Before which time God had warned the Jews, by the Prophet Zechariah, (Zechariah 2:6-7,) to flee out of Babylon, and to deliver themselves from the miseries that should befall that city during the siege: see Dr. Prideaux. And be as the he-goats before the flocks “Let every one strive to lead the way to others, and give them an example of speedily obeying God's call, without showing any fondness to the place, or the idolatries there practised.”