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Jeremiah 51:48

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible · John Gill (1697–1771) · Public Domain

Then the heaven and the earth, and all that [is] therein,shall sing for Babylon,.... At the destruction of her, rejoicing at it; not at the ruin of fellow creatures, simply considered; but relatively, at the righteousness of God in it, and the glory of his justice, and the deliverance of many by it from tyranny and bondage.

This seems to be a figurative expression often used, in which the heavens and the earth are brought in as witnesses, approvers, and applauders, of what is done by the Lord.

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