I will send and take all the families of the north] The Chaldeans, with all their power. Chap. 1. 15. & 4. 6. & 6. 22.
the king of Babylon my servant] Who shall do me service in chastising you, Chap. 27. 6. & 43. 10. Ezekiel 29:18; Ezekiel 29:20. Thus the wicked, and Satan himself, are Gods servants, Psal. 119 91. because he employeth them, and maketh use of them; though contrary to their own intentions, Isa. 10. 5,-7. and turneth what they do, out of evill grounds, and for sinister ends, to his own glory, and the good of his, Psalms 76:10. Chap. 24. 5.
against all these nations round about] To wit, the Philistines, Ammonites, Egyptians and others, 2 Kings 24:7. Chap. 46. 26. and 48. and 49.
make them an astonishment] Chap. 19. 8. Vers. 18.
perpetuall desolations] Heb. desolations of perpetuitie. Isaiah 58:12. Vers. 12.