The LORD shall bring a nation against thee from far, from the end of the earth, as swift as the eagle flieth; a nation whose tongue thou shalt not understand;
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Gill's Exposition
And thou shall eat the fruit of thine body,.... Than which nothing can be more shocking and unnatural, which is explained as follows:
the flesh of thy sons and of thy daughters, which the Lord thy…
The curses correspond in form and number Deu 28:15-19 to the blessings Deu 28:3-6, and the special modes in which these threats should be executed are described in five groups of denunciations Deut.…
One would have thought that enough had been said to possess them with a dread of that wrath of God which is revealed from heaven against the ungodliness and unrighteousness of men. But to show how…
Cambridge Bible
from far, etc.] Isa 5:26 of Assyrians, Jer 5:15 of Babylonians (though perhaps originally of Scythians).
as the vulture swoopeth] See on Deu 14:12 f.; cp. Hos 8:1 of Assyrians; Hab 1:8; Jer 48:40; Jer…
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