My servant. Compare Isaiah 45:1.
and. Note the Figure of speech Polysyndeton. App-6.
astonishment. Reference to Pentateuch (Deuteronomy 28:37). Compare Jeremiah 25:18.
perpetual. age-abiding. Put by Figure of speech Synecdoche (of the Whole), for. long time.
9 Behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, saith the LORD, and Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will bring them against this land, and against the inhabitants thereof, and against all these nations round about, and will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, and an hissing, and perpetual desolations.