Vers. 23. And I will make it a posses∣sion to the hedghog, and pooles of water, and I will sweepe it with the beasome of destruction, saith the Lord of hostes.
HE yet againe confirmes the same things which he spake heretofore touching the future destruction of Babylon, to wit, that men shall hereafter inhabit it no more, but it shall be made an hidious Caue, into which wilde beasts shall retire. Some say that the word Kipod (which we haue translated Bicure) signifies a Beuer, others an Hedghog, other a Torteis. But it is very likely by the circum∣stance of the place that our Prophet speakes of a beast which frequents the waters; be∣cause afterwards he mentions a poole, or ma∣rish, which in deed properlie belongs to the situation of the place: for howsoeuer Baby∣lon was not compassed in with pooles, yet is it situated in a moist soile. Euphrates waters the region on the one side, and Tigris on the other: thence it is that the Lord threa∣tens to drowne it.