A dry wind] Such as the North-wind usually is, Job 37:22. Proverbs 25:23. meaning the Chaldeans; who from the North, Chap. 1. 14, 15. Vers. 6. should break in upon them; like a whirl-wind in the plain, where there is no shelter or resistance, that sweepeth all away before it, Isaiah 21:1. &Isaiah 27:8. of the high places in the wildernesse] Or, such as bloweth upon the high places in the plain. Chap. 9. 10. &13. 24. though alluding withall, it may well be, to those plains or wasts, by which the Chaldeans were to march in their expedition against Judah. Vers. 12. not to fanne, nor to cleanse] Not to sever the chaff from the grain, and carrie the one away, leaving the other, but to disperse and scatter all together, Chap. 15. 7. and 18. 17. and 51. 1. Ezekiel 5:2. &Ezekiel 21:3.