A noise: The dreadful devastations made by the Chaldeans through all the nations of the East, and afterwards the destruction of Babylon by the Medes and Persians, are here primarily foretold in this awful language; but it also accords very much with the passages in which the ruin of all the anti- christian powers is evidently predicted. Jeremiah 45:5; Isaiah 34:8; Hosea 4:1, Hosea 12:2; Micah 6:2
plead: Isaiah 66:16; Ezekiel 20:35-36, Ezekiel 38:22; Joel 3:2