Your mother shall be sore confounded, &c.] Your mothercitie, Babylon: or, your countrey, Chaldea: as Chap. 15. 8, 9. shall be ashamed of you, that could no better defend her. the hindermost of the nations shall be a wildernesse] Or, she is, or shall, become the hindermost of the nations, a wildernesse, &c. She that was sometime the formost of the nations, is now the hindermost: She that formerly was rich and stately, is now become a wild wast, Lamentations 1:1. See Isaiah 13:20. Jeremiah 17:6.