They shall be amazed one at another, to see so populous and impregnable a city as Babylon was, so easily and unexpectedly taken.
Flames, Heb. faces of flame; either pale with fear, or inflamed with rage and torment, as men in misery frequently are. Some render it the faces of Lehabim, a people descending from Mizraim, Gen_10:131Ch_1:11, i.e. black with pain, as men use to be; of which see Joe_2:6Nah_2:10.