Thus saith the LORD of hosts; The broad walls of Babylon shall be utterly broken, and her high gates shall be burned with fire; and the people shall labour in vain, and the folk in the fire, and they shall be weary.
Ver. 58. The broad walls of Babylon.] See on Jeremiah 51:44. Or, The walls of broad Babylon, that greatest of all cities, saith Strabo; a the compass whereof within the walls was near upon seventy miles, saith Pliny. b
a Lib. xvi.
b Lib. vi. cap. 26.