Deu 28:49, Isa 5:26, 30:27-28, 39:3, 6-7 | TSK | STEP | bring a nation.Though the Chaldeans are frequently described under the figure of an eagle, yet these verses especially predict the desolations brought on the Jews by the Romans; who came from a country far more distant than Chaldea; whose conquests were as rapid as the eagle's flight, and whose standard bore this very figure; who spake a language to which the Jews were then entire strangers, being wholly unlike the Hebrew, of which the Chaldee was merely a dialect; whose appearance and victories were terrible; and whose yoke was a yoke of iron; and the havoc which they made tremendous. as the eagle. a nation whose. understand. Heb. hear.

Deuteronomy 28:49

bring a nation.Though the Chaldeans are frequently described under the figure of an eagle, yet these verses especially predict the desolations brought on the Jews by the Romans; who came from a country far more distant than Chaldea; whose conquests were as rapid as the eagle's flight, and whose standard bore this very figure; who spake a language to which the Jews were then entire strangers, being wholly unlike the Hebrew, of which the Chaldee was merely a dialect; whose appearance and victories were terrible; and whose yoke was a yoke of iron; and the havoc which they made tremendous.

Nu 24:24; Isa 5:26-30; Jer 5:15-17; Da 6:22,23; 9:26; Hab 1:6,7

Lu 19:43,44

as the eagle.

Jer 4:13; 48:40; 49:22; La 4:19; Eze 17:3,12; Ho 8:1; Mt 24:28

a nation whose.

Jer 5:15; Eze 3:6; 1Co 14:21

understand. Heb. hear.

Isaiah 5:26

he will.

11:12; 18:3; Jer 51:27

hiss.

7:18; Zec 10:8

end.

39:3; De 28:49; Ps 72:8; Jer 5:15; Mal 1:11

they.

30:16; Jer 4:13; La 4:19; Joe 2:7; Hab 1:8

Isaiah 30:27-28

burning.

9:5; 10:16,17; 33:12; 34:9; De 32:22; 33:2; Ps 18:7-9; 79:5

La 1:12,13; Da 7:9; Na 1:5,6; 2Th 2:8; Heb 12:29

the burden thereof. or, the grievousness of flame. heavy.Heb. heaviness.

Zep 3:8

his breath.

11:4; Ps 18:15; Lu 22:31; 2Th 2:8; Heb 4:12; Re 1:16; 2:16

an overflowing.

8:8; 28:17,18; 29:6; Hab 3:12-15

to sift.Bp. Lowth renders, "to toss the nations with the van of perdition;" that is, says {Kimchi,} nothing useful shall remain behind, but all shall come to nothing and perish. The van of the ancients was a large instrument, somewhat like a shovel, with a long handle, with which they tossed the corn mixed with the chaff and chopped straw into the air, that the wind might separate them.

19:12,14; 33:10-12; Ho 13:3; Am 9:9; Mt 3:12

a bridle.

37:29; 2Ki 19:28; Ps 32:9; Pr 26:3

causing.

19:3,13,14; 2Sa 17:14; 1Ki 22:20-22; Job 39:17; Eze 14:7-9

2Th 2:11