But I will remove the northern army far away from you, and will drive it into a barren and desolate land, its front into the eastern sea, and its back into the western sea; and its stench will come up, and its bad smell will rise.” Surely he has done great things.
ExplanationCommentary
Verse 20. The northern enemy. Some understand this of Holofernes and his army, others of the locusts. Challoner.—Prot. “the northern army.” Hebrew may denote ( Bible.) wind. This often drives away locusts. Those here spoken of were drowned in the Mediterranean and Dead Seas. Calmet.—This occasioned a pestilence, (Saint Jerome Saint Augustine de Civ. Dei. iv. 31.) to prevent which the locusts were to be speedily buried. Isaiah 33:4.—Proudly. Hebrew “great things.” God, or the locusts are meant.