waste the land of Assyria] Heb. eat up. These whom God shall raise up for the deliverance of his Church, shall destroy Satan and the worlds kingdome, by the sword of Gods word, and all the enemies thereof, which are meant here by the Assyrians and Babylonians, which were the chiefe at that time. land of Nimrod] See Genesis 10:10-11. in the entrances thereof] Or, with her own naked swords.