Jeremiah 50:39-40
God can transform the greatest human empire into a deserted ruin as a witness to His justice.
39 Therefore the wild animals of the desert with the wolves will dwell there. The ostriches will dwell therein; and it will be inhabited no more forever; neither will it be lived in from generation to generation.
40 As when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah and its neighbor cities,” says Yahweh, “so no man will dwell there, neither will any son of man live therein.
God can transform the greatest human empire into a deserted ruin as a witness to His justice.
To declare the permanent desolation of Babylon after divine judgment, portraying the city as an abandoned wasteland never again inhabited.
Jeremiah 50:39–40 brings the oracle against Babylon to a climactic image of permanent desolation. The once-great empire becomes a deserted wilderness as the result of divine judgment.
Babylon Judged: The Fall of the Hammer and the Return of the LORD’s Flock
The LORD breaks Babylon, the proud hammer of the whole earth, so that his scattered flock may return, seek him, and be restored under his everlasting covenant mercy.