For lo: now the prophet declares particularly what it is that the Lord will work. I raise up; awaken to action, animate them in it, and strengthen them to accomplish their design. The Chaldeans, who had subdued other nations, and had already ruined the Assyrian monarchy. Bitter; cruel, and without mercy, Jeremiah 6:23, Jeremiah 21:7. Hasty; speedy and quick in executing their merciless purposes, as Isaiah 5:26,27. Which shall march, Heb. walk without fear, and in order, as a conqueror doth in his conquests. Through the breadth of the land; through all parts of the land, no corner shall escape his search or cruelty. To possess; not to spoil and be gone, but to take and keep possession, as lord and proprietor in the right of conquest. The dwelling-places; houses, towns, cities, Jerusalem itself, which they had no right to, till Jewish sins gave occasion for the dispossessing of the Jews, and the introducing of the Chaldeans.
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Habakkuk 1:6
6 For, lo, I raise up the Chaldeans, that bitter and hasty nation, which shall march through the breadthb of the land, to possess the dwellingplaces that are not theirs.