Behold, I am against thee, O destroying mountain, saith the LORD, which destroyest all the earth: and I will stretch out mine hand upon thee, and roll thee down from the rocks, and will make thee a burnt mountain.
O destroying mountain - called so, not from its position, for it lay low in the "plain in the land of Shinar," where the original tower of Babel was built (Jeremiah 51:13; Genesis 11:2; Genesis 11:9), but from its eminence above other nations, many of which it had "destroyed;" also because of its lofty palaces, towers, hanging gardens resting on arches, and walls 50 royal cubits broad and 200 royal cubits high.
I will ... roll thee down from the rocks - i:e., from thy rock-like fortifications and walls.
I will make thee a burnt mountain. So, at the sounding of the second trumpet, "as it were a great mountain burning with fire was cast into the sea" (Revelation 8:8). I will make thee like a volcano, which, after having spent itself in pouring its "destroying" lava on all the country around, falls into the vacuum, and becomes extinct, the surrounding "rocks" alone marking where the crater had been. Such was the appearance of Babylon after its destruction; and as the pumice stones of the volcano are left in their place, being unfit for building, so Babylon should never rise from its ruins.