They come to (d) fight with the Chaldeans, but [it is] to fill them with the dead bodies of men, whom I have slain in my anger and in my fury, and for all whose wickedness I have hid my (e) face from this city.
(d) The Jews think to overcome the Chaldeans, but they seek their own destruction.
(e) He shows that God's favour is cause of all prosperity, as his anger is of all adversity.