Jeremiah 50:12-13

[12] Your mother shall be sore confounded; she that bare you shall be ashamed: behold, the hindermost of the nations shall be a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert. [13] Because of the wrath of the LORD it shall not be inhabited, but it shall be wholly desolate: every one that goeth by Babylon shall be astonished, and hiss at all her plagues.

What is the context of Jeremiah 50:12-13?

Babylon’s Sure Fall (Jeremiah 50:11-16 true)
Prophecies against Babylon (Jeremiah 50:1-16 true)
A Message About Babylon .( A .) (Jeremiah 50:1-46 true)
A Message Concerning Babylon (Jeremiah 50:1-46 true)
Judgment on Babylon and Babylonia (Jeremiah 50:1-46 true)
Judgment on Babylon (Jeremiah 50:1-46 true)
Prophecy against Babylon (Jeremiah 50:1-46 true)

What does Jeremiah 50:12-13 Mean?

Contextual Meaning

Mother Babylon would be humbled when God made her the least of the nations. She would be like a desert compared to a fertile field. The Lord would remove her inhabitants and make her completely desolate. Observers would marvel and whistle at the horrible condition of the once proud Babylon.

"Cyrus did not destroy ^[1] Babylon when he captured it. Later in the Persian period the city revolted, and Darius Hystaspes captured it and destroyed its walls (514 B.C.), thus beginning its decay. The city continued to decline until well into the Christian era, when it ceased to exist. The desolate ruins remained for archaeologists to uncover in the nineteenth century." ^[2]