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Jer_5:15 Lo, I will bring a nation upon you from far, O house of Israel, saith the LORD: it [is] a mighty nation, it [is] an ancient nation, a nation whose language thou knowest not, neither understandest what they say.
Ver. 15. It is a mighty nation, it is an ancient nation.] As ancient as Nimrod, the first founder of that first of the four monarchies. {Gen_10:8} Hence Babylon is called "the land of Nimrod," {Mic_5:6} whom the poets call Saturn, and his son and successor, Jupiter, Belus.
A nation whose language thou knowest not.] For the Babylonians spake Syriac, {Dan_2:4} as did also the Jews afterwards - viz., after the captivity in Babylon, where they learned of it, and lost their own language.