Lo, I will bring a nation upon you from far, O house of Israel, saith the LORD: it is a mighty nation, it is an ancient nation, a nation whose language thou knowest not, neither understandest what they say.
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Gill's Exposition
Lo, I will bring a nation upon you from far,.... From Babylon, as in Jer 4:16,
O house of Israel, saith the Lord; though the house of Israel is generally taken for the ten tribes, especially when…
Barnes' Notes
Israel is not put here for the ten tribes, but for the whole house of Jacob, of which Judah was now the representative. Mighty - “permanent, enduring.” The word is the usual epithet of the rocks Num…
We may observe in these verses, as before,
I. The sin of this people, upon which the commission signed against them is grounded. God disowns them and dooms them to destruction, Jer 5:10. But is there…
Cambridge Bible
Although the description suits the Babylonians (cp. Isa 5:26 of the Assyrians; also Isa 28:11; Isa 33:19), we need not suppose that it is altered in phraseology from its original application which was…
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