How, &c.] Spoken by way of wonderment: as Chap. 50. 23. is Sheshach taken] Babylon, Chap. 25. 26. so called of an idoll there worshipped: whose feast they were then celebrating, when the citie was surprised. Of this feast see Berosus in Athenaeus lib. 14. & Dion Chrysost. orat. 4. the praise of the whole earth] The citie so famous over the whole world, Chap. 49. 25. Lamentations 2:15. an astonishment among the nations] Vers. 37.