Lo, I will bring a nation upon you from far, O house of Israel, saith the LORD: it [is] a mighty nation, it [is] an ancient nation, a nation whose language thou knowest not, neither understandest what they say.
Ver. 15. It is a mighty nation, it is an ancient nation.] As ancient as Nimrod, the first founder of that first of the four monarchies. Gen 10:8 Hence Babylon is called "the land of Nimrod," Mic 5:6 whom the poets call Saturn, and his son and successor, Jupiter, Belus.
A nation whose language thou knowest not.] For the Babylonians spake Syriac, Dan 2:4 as did also the Jews afterwards - viz., after the captivity in Babylon, where they learned of it, and lost their own language.