Deut 28:49

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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.

Num 24:24; Isa 5:26-30; Jer 5:15-17; Dan 6:22; Dan 6:23; Dan 9:26; Hab 1:6; Hab 1:7

Luke 19:43; Luke 19:44

as the eagle.

Jer 4:13; Jer 48:40; Jer 49:22; Lam 4:19; Ezek 17:3; Ezek 17:12; Hos 8:1; Matt 24:28

a nation whose.

Jer 5:15; Ezek 3:6; 1Cor 14:21

understand. Heb. hear.