For, lo, I will raise and cause to come up against Babylon an assembly of great nations from the north country: and they shall set themselves in array against her; from thence she shall be taken: their arrows shall be as of a mighty expert man ; none shall return in vain.
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Gill's Exposition
For, lo, I will raise and cause to come up against Babylon,.... The work was of the Lord; it was he that would give a commission and a command to the enemies of Babylon; that would incline them, and…
Barnes' Notes
I will raise - Or, stir up. An assembly of great nations - The Medo-Persian empire was as much an aggregate of discordant nations as that of Babylon. From thence - From the north, i. e., by the great…
God is here by his prophet, as afterwards in his providence, proceeding in his controversy with Babylon. Observe,
I. The commission and charge given to the instruments that were to be employed in…
Cambridge Bible
an assembly of great nations such as Ararat, Minni, Ashkenaz. Cp. Jer 51:27 f.
an expert mighty man better than the mg. a mighty man that maketh childless. In the Heb. the two readings differ by the…
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