I have sent to Babylon, and have brought down all their nobles] Or, I will send. The Modes and Persians thither: by whom I will bring down all their great ones, and cast down all their strong holds. Heb. barres. Psalms 147:13. Or, enforce them by flight to shift for themselves: will bring them all down flying; or, all their flyers away: for the Hebrew word may also so signifie. See Chap 27. 1.
whose cry is in the ships] While they seek to flie away by shiping, their citie being taken; but finde the water of the river turned another way. See Jeremiah 50:38. and Jeremiah 51:32. Or, together with their shipping, whereof they so much vaunt.