And they shall drink, and be moved, and be mad, because of the sword that I will send among them.
Ver. 16. And be moved and be mad.] As men that are overcome by some hot and heady liquor, are mad drunk.
Because of the sword that I shall send.] For it is God who puts the sword in commission, Jer 47:6-7 and there it many times rideth circuit, as a judge, in scarlet. There are certain seasons, wherein, as the angel troubled the pool, so doth God the nations: and commonly when he doth it to one, he doth it to more, as here, and 2 Chronicles 15:5,6, and as at this day in Europe.