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They come from a farre Country.] They are comming already, they are already up∣on their march, &c.
Who are meant by this, They, the fol∣lowing words shew, they are the Lord, and the weapons of his indignation, whose noise they heard in the Mountaines.
From a farre Country] Although the Medes themselves were not farre from Ba∣bylon, yet many people, which joyned with the Medes, were.
From the end of the Heaven. i. e. From the end of the earth, where heaven and earth seem to meet together.
The Prophet speakes here in the phrase of the common and vulgar sort of people, which think that the heaven is Semicircu∣lar, like a Bow, and that there it ends where the sight is bounded, and that there it is joyned to the earth, as the Bow to the string.
He mentioneth their farre coming, be∣cause farre comers are for the most part more covetous and fierce than others, and would seem to doe something to their ene∣mies, worthy of their farre coming, and hard paines, and such are more formidable to their enemies than others are.
The weapons of his indignation] i. e. The Medes, whom he maketh use of to execute his wrath upon Babylon, as a man maketh use of his weapons to revenge himself upon his enemies. A Metaphor
To destroy the whole Land] i. e. To de∣stroy the whole Land of Babylon, or Baby∣lonia.