The Babylonians, and all the Chaldeans, Pekod, and Shoa, and Koa, and all the Assyrians with them: all of them desirable young men, captains and rulers, great lords and renowned, all of them riding upon horses.
Pekod, and Shoa, and Koa - not a geographical name, but symbolically descriptive of Babylon. 'Visitation,' peculiarly the land of 'judgment,' in a double sense; actively, the inflicter of judgment on Judah; passively, as about to be afterward herself the object of judgment (Jeremiah 50:21, "Go up against the inhabitants of Pekod").
Shoa ... Koa - `rich ... noble;' descriptive of Babylon in her prosperity, having all the world's wealth and dignity at her disposal. Maurer suggests that, as descriptive appellatives are subjoined to the proper name, "all the Assyrians," in the second hemistich of the verse (as the verse ought to be divided at "Koa," not at "with them"); so Pekod, Shoa, and Koa must be appellatives, descriptive of "The Babylonians and all the Chaldeans" in the first hemistich; "Pekod" meaning Prefects; Shoa ... Koa, 'rich ... princely.' Thus the translation would be, 'The Babylonians and all the Chaldeans, prefects, and rich and princely."
All of them desirable young men - strong irony; alluding to Ezekiel 23:12, these "desirable young men" whom thou didst so "dote upon" for their manly vigour of appearance, shall by that very vigour be the better able to chastise thee.