Babylon [hath been] a golden cup in the LORD'S hand, that made all the earth drunken: the nations have drunken of her wine; therefore the nations are mad.
Ver. 7. Babylon hath been a golden cup.] See Jeremiah 25:15 Revelation 17:4 .
In the Lord's hand,] i.e., Oeconomia et dispensatione eius: He had the mixing and distributing of it.