A sword [is] upon the Chaldeans, saith the Lord,.... Or, "shall be" or, "O sword, [be thou] on the Chaldeans" ; that is, the sword of the Medes and Persians; those that kill with the sword, as the Targum; in the mystic sense, the Christian princes that shall draw the sword against the antichristian states:and upon the inhabitants of Babylon; the metropolis of Chaldea; the common people in it, as distinguished from those of high rank and degree following:and upon her princes; Belshazzar and his nobles, who were slain the night Babylon was taken:and upon her wise [men]; prime ministers, politicians, and counsellors of state; neither high birth nor great wisdom can secure from the sword of the enemy, when it has a commission from God, as it had here.
"Erit", Abarbinel; "irruet", Junius & Tremellius, Piscator. Mydvk le brx "gladie, super Chaldaeos, scil.