an astonishment, &c.] Vers. 9. as it is this day] Or, as appeareth this day. Deut. 4. 20, 38. &8. 18. 1 Kings 8:24. As already is begun, and may be seen in the invasion of the land, and devastation of it by the Chaldean forces and their complices. 2 Kings 24:2. Though some think, that the Prophet hath relation here to the time, not when he first uttered, but when afterward he penned, and in writing published, this together with the rest of his prophecies: which seemeth not so probable.