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. Numbers 24:24; Isaiah 5:26-30; Jeremiah 5:15-17; Daniel 6:22-23, Daniel 9:26; Habakkuk 1:6-7; Luke 19:43-44
as the eagle: Jeremiah 4:13, Jeremiah 48:40, Jeremiah 49:22; Lamentations 4:19; Ezekiel 17:3, Ezekiel 17:12; Hosea 8:1; Matthew 24:28
a nation whose: Jeremiah 5:15; Ezekiel 3:6; 1 Corinthians 14:21
understand: Heb. hear