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a nation whose tongue thou shalt not understand;</div><div id="jump">Jump to: <a href="/commentaries/barnes/deuteronomy/28.htm" title="Barnes' Notes">Barnes</a> • <a href="/commentaries/benson/deuteronomy/28.htm" title="Benson Commentary">Benson</a> • <a href="/commentaries/illustrator/deuteronomy/28.htm" title="Biblical Illustrator">BI</a> • <a href="/commentaries/calvin/deuteronomy/28.htm" title="Calvin's Commentaries">Calvin</a> • <a href="/commentaries/cambridge/deuteronomy/28.htm" title="Cambridge Bible">Cambridge</a> • <a href="/commentaries/clarke/deuteronomy/28.htm" title="Clarke's Commentary">Clarke</a> • <a href="/commentaries/darby/deuteronomy/28.htm" title="Darby's Bible Synopsis">Darby</a> • <a href="/commentaries/ellicott/deuteronomy/28.htm" title="Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers">Ellicott</a> • <a href="/commentaries/expositors/deuteronomy/28.htm" title="Expositor's Bible">Expositor's</a> • <a href="/commentaries/edt/deuteronomy/28.htm" title="Expositor's Dictionary">Exp Dct</a> • <a href="/commentaries/gaebelein/deuteronomy/28.htm" title="Gaebelein's Annotated Bible">Gaebelein</a> • <a href="/commentaries/gsb/deuteronomy/28.htm" title="Geneva Study Bible">GSB</a> • <a href="/commentaries/gill/deuteronomy/28.htm" title="Gill's Bible Exposition">Gill</a> • <a href="/commentaries/gray/deuteronomy/28.htm" title="Gray's Concise">Gray</a> • <a href="/commentaries/guzik/deuteronomy/28.htm" title="Guzik Bible Commentary">Guzik</a> • <a href="/commentaries/haydock/deuteronomy/28.htm" title="Haydock Catholic Bible Commentary">Haydock</a> • <a href="/commentaries/hastings/deuteronomy/8-2.htm" title="Hastings Great Texts">Hastings</a> • <a href="/commentaries/homiletics/deuteronomy/28.htm" title="Pulpit Homiletics">Homiletics</a> • <a href="/commentaries/jfb/deuteronomy/28.htm" title="Jamieson-Fausset-Brown">JFB</a> • <a href="/commentaries/kad/deuteronomy/28.htm" title="Keil and Delitzsch OT">KD</a> • <a href="/commentaries/king-en/deuteronomy/28.htm" title="Kingcomments Bible Studies">King</a> • <a href="/commentaries/lange/deuteronomy/28.htm" title="Lange Commentary">Lange</a> • <a href="/commentaries/maclaren/deuteronomy/28.htm" title="MacLaren Expositions">MacLaren</a> • <a href="/commentaries/mhc/deuteronomy/28.htm" title="Matthew Henry Concise">MHC</a> • <a href="/commentaries/mhcw/deuteronomy/28.htm" title="Matthew Henry Full">MHCW</a> • <a href="/commentaries/parker/deuteronomy/28.htm" title="The People's Bible by Joseph Parker">Parker</a> • <a href="/commentaries/poole/deuteronomy/28.htm" title="Matthew Poole">Poole</a> • <a href="/commentaries/pulpit/deuteronomy/28.htm" title="Pulpit Commentary">Pulpit</a> • <a href="/commentaries/sermon/deuteronomy/28.htm" title="Sermon Bible">Sermon</a> • <a href="/commentaries/sco/deuteronomy/28.htm" title="Scofield Reference Notes">SCO</a> • <a href="/commentaries/ttb/deuteronomy/28.htm" title="Through The Bible">TTB</a> • <a href="/commentaries/wes/deuteronomy/28.htm" title="Wesley's Notes">WES</a> • <a href="#tsk" title="Treasury of Scripture Knowledge">TSK</a></div><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="comtype">EXPOSITORY (ENGLISH BIBLE)</div><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/deuteronomy/28.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div><a href="/context/deuteronomy/28-49.htm" title="The LORD shall bring a nation against you from far, from the end of the earth, as swift as the eagle flies; a nation whose tongue you shall not understand;">Deuteronomy 28:49-57</a>. <span class= "bld">CONQUEST OF ISRAEL BY A STRANGE NATION. MISERIES OF THE SIEGE.</span><p>(49) <span class= "bld">The Lord shall bring a nation against thee.</span>—Comp. “Lo, I will <span class= "ital">bring a nation upon you from far, </span>O house of Israel, saith the Lord: it is a mighty nation, an ancient nation, a <span class= "ital">nation whose language thou knowest not, neither understandest what they say” </span>(<a href="/jeremiah/5-15.htm" title="See, I will bring a nation on you from far, O house of Israel, said the LORD: it is a mighty nation, it is an ancient nation, a nation whose language you know not, neither understand what they say.">Jeremiah 5:15</a>). In this instance the Chaldseans were intended, “that bitter and hasty nation” (<a href="/habakkuk/1-6.htm" title="For, see, I raise up the Chaldeans, that bitter and hasty nation, which shall march through the breadth of the land, to possess the dwelling places that are not theirs.">Habakkuk 1:6</a>).<p><span class= "bld">As swift as the eagle flieth.</span>—The eagles of Rome may be alluded to here. And of the Chaldæans it is said, “They shall fly as the eagle that hasteth to eat” (<a href="/habakkuk/1-8.htm" title="Their horses also are swifter than the leopards, and are more fierce than the evening wolves: and their horsemen shall spread themselves, and their horsemen shall come from far; they shall fly as the eagle that hastens to eat.">Habakkuk 1:8</a>).<p><span class= "bld">Whose tongue thou shalt not understand.</span>—I am told by a learned Jewish friend that (excellent linguists as the Jews often are) hundreds of the people never attain the least acquaintance with the tongue of the countries where they are dispersed, and seem to lose the power of doing so. I have myself been surprised by more than one example, even in London, of their being wholly unable to take up the commonest matter of business when presented to them in an English way. It is not from lack of ability, but from a kind of paralysis of the understanding, except within a certain range of thought.<p><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/benson/deuteronomy/28.htm">Benson Commentary</a></div><span class="bld"><a href="/deuteronomy/28-49.htm" title="The LORD shall bring a nation against you from far, from the end of the earth, as swift as the eagle flies; a nation whose tongue you shall not understand;">Deuteronomy 28:49</a></span>. <span class="ital">The Lord shall bring a nation against thee from far — </span>“The Chaldeans might be said to come from far, in comparison of the Moabites, Philistines, and other neighbouring nations, which used to infest Judea.” See <a href="/jeremiah/5-15.htm" title="See, I will bring a nation on you from far, O house of Israel, said the LORD: it is a mighty nation, it is an ancient nation, a nation whose language you know not, neither understand what they say.">Jeremiah 5:15</a>; <a href="/jeremiah/6-22.htm" title="Thus said the LORD, Behold, a people comes from the north country, and a great nation shall be raised from the sides of the earth.">Jeremiah 6:22</a>. And they are represented as pursuing them with the swiftness of eagles, <a href="/lamentations/4-19.htm" title="Our persecutors are swifter than the eagles of the heaven: they pursued us on the mountains, they laid wait for us in the wilderness.">Lamentations 4:19</a>. But the Romans, no doubt, were chiefly intended. “They were truly brought ‘from far, from the end of the earth;’ Vespasian and Adrian, the two great conquerors and destroyers of the Jews, both coming from commanding here in Britain. The Romans too, from the rapidity of their conquests, might very well be compared to eagles, and perhaps not without an allusion to the standard of the Roman armies, which was an eagle, and their language was more unknown to the Jews than the Chaldee.” — Bishop Newton.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="mhc" id="mhc"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/mhc/deuteronomy/28.htm">Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary</a></div>28:45-68 If God inflicts vengeance, what miseries his curse can bring upon mankind, even in this present world! Yet these are but the beginning of sorrows to those under the curse of God. What then will be the misery of that world where their worm dieth not, and their fire is not quenched! Observe what is here said of the wrath of God, which should come and remain upon the Israelites for their sins. It is amazing to think that a people so long the favourites of Heaven, should be so cast off; and yet that a people so scattered in all nations should be kept distinct, and not mixed with others. If they would not serve God with cheerfulness, they should be compelled to serve their enemies. We may justly expect from God, that if we do not fear his fearful name, we shall feel his fearful plagues; for one way or other God will be feared. The destruction threatened is described. They have, indeed, been plucked from off the land, ver. 63. Not only by the Babylonish captivity, and when Jerusalem was destroyed by the Romans; but afterwards, when they were forbidden to set foot in Jerusalem. They should have no rest; no rest of body, ver. 65, but be continually on the remove, either in hope of gain, or fear of persecution. No rest of the mind, which is much worse. They have been banished from city to city, from country to country; recalled, and banished again. These events, compared with the favour shown to Israel in ancient times, and with the prophecies about them, should not only excite astonishment, but turn unto us for a testimony, assuring us of the truth of Scripture. And when the other prophecies of their conversion to Christ shall come to pass, the whole will be a sign and a wonder to all the nations of the earth, and the forerunner of a general spread of true christianity. The fulfilling of these prophecies upon the Jewish nation, delivered more than three thousand years ago, shows that Moses spake by the Spirit of God; who not only foresees the ruin of sinners, but warns of it, that they may prevent it by a true and timely repentance, or else be left without excuse. And let us be thankful that Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, by being made a curse for us, and bearing in his own person all that punishment which our sins merit, and which we must otherwise have endured for ever. To this Refuge and salvation let sinners flee; therein let believers rejoice, and serve their reconciled God with gladness of heart, for the abundance of his spiritual blessings.<a name="bar" id="bar"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/barnes/deuteronomy/28.htm">Barnes' Notes on the Bible</a></div>Fourth series of judgments, descriptive of the calamities and horrors which should ensue when Israel should be subjugated by its foreign foes.<p><a href="/deuteronomy/28-49.htm">Deuteronomy 28:49</a><p>The description (compare the marginal references) applies undoubtedly to the Chaldeans, and in a degree to other nations also whom God raised up as ministers of vengeance upon apostate Israel (e. g. the Medes). But it only needs to read this part of the denunciation, and to compare it with the narrative of Josephus, to see that its full and exact accomplishment took place in the wars of Vespasian and Titus against the Jews, as indeed the Jews themselves generally admit.<p>The eagle - The Roman ensign; compare <a href="/matthew/24-28.htm">Matthew 24:28</a>; and consult throughout this passage the marginal references.<a name="jfb" id="jfb"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/jfb/deuteronomy/28.htm">Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary</a></div>49. The Lord shall bring a nation against thee from far—the invasion of the Romans—"they came from far." The soldiers of the invading army were taken from France, Spain, and Britain—then considered "the end of the earth." Julius Severus, the commander, afterwards Vespasian and Hadrian, left Britain for the scene of contest. Moreover, the ensign on the standards of the Roman army was "an eagle"; and the dialects spoken by the soldiers of the different nations that composed that army were altogether unintelligible to the Jews.<div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/poole/deuteronomy/28.htm">Matthew Poole's Commentary</a></div> <span class="bld">As the eagle flieth, </span> Heb. as <span class="ital">the eagle flies</span>, i.e. not only swiftly, as is expressed in our translation, for which the Babylonian is noted and compared to an eagle, <span class="bldvs"> <a href="/jeremiah/4-13.htm" title="Behold, he shall come up as clouds, and his chariots shall be as a whirlwind: his horses are swifter than eagles. Woe to us! for we are spoiled.">Jeremiah 4:13</a> <a href="/ezekiel/17-3.htm" title="And say, Thus said the Lord GOD; A great eagle with great wings, long winged, full of feathers, which had divers colors, came to Lebanon, and took the highest branch of the cedar:">Ezekiel 17:3</a> <a href="/daniel/7-4.htm" title="The first was like a lion, and had eagle's wings: I beheld till the wings thereof were plucked, and it was lifted up from the earth, and made stand on the feet as a man, and a man's heart was given to it.">Daniel 7:4</a></span>; but also fiercely and greedily, as the eagle to its prey; also strongly and irresistibly. Possibly this may be understood of the Romans, who did come <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="bld">from far, from the end of the earth, </span> more truly and literally than the Chaldeans, whose country was not far from Judea, and this may allude to the eagle, which was in their ensigns. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="gil" id="gil"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/gill/deuteronomy/28.htm">Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible</a></div>The Lord shall bring a nation against thee from far, from the end of the earth,.... Now though Babylon is represented as a country distant from Judea, and said to be a nation "from far", <a href="/jeremiah/5-15.htm">Jeremiah 5:15</a>; yet not "from the end of the earth"; as here; and though the Roman nation, strictly speaking, was not at so great a distance from Jerusalem, yet the Roman emperors, and great part of their armies brought against it, were fetched from our island of Great Britain, which in former times was reckoned the end of the earth, and the uttermost parts of the world (s); and so Manasseh Ben Israel (t) interprets this nation of Rome, and observes, that Vespasian brought for his assistance many nations (or soldiers) out of England, France, Spain, and other parts of the world: and not only Vespasian was sent for from Britain to make war with the Jews, but when they rebelled, in the times of Adrian, Julius Severus, a very eminent general, was sent for from thence to quell them. And it appears to be a very ancient opinion of the Jews, that this passage is to be understood of the Romans, from what is related in one of their Talmuds (u): they say, that"Trajan, being sent for by his wife to subdue the Jews, determined to come in ten days, and came in five; he came and found them (the Jews) busy in the law on that verse, "the Lord shall bring a nation against thee from far", &c. he said unto them, what are ye busy in? they answered him, so and so; he replied to them, this is the man (meaning himself) who thought to come in ten days, and came in five; and he surrounded them with his legions, and slew them:" <p>as swift as the eagle flieth; which may respect not so much the swiftness of this creature, the words which convey the idea being a supplement of the text, as the force with which it flies when in sight of its prey, and hastes unto it and falls upon it, which is irresistible; and this is the sense of the Septuagint and Vulgate Latin versions, and is what is ascribed to the eagle by other writers (w). Now though this figure is used of the Chaldeans and Babylonians, <a href="/jeremiah/4-13.htm">Jeremiah 4:13</a>; it agrees full as well or better with the Romans, because of their swiftness in coming from distant parts, and because of the force and impetus with which they invaded Judea, besieged Jerusalem, and attacked the Jews everywhere; and besides, the eagle was borne on the standard in the Roman army (x): <p>a nation whose tongue thou shalt not understand; which, though it is also said of the language of the Chaldean nation, <a href="/jeremiah/5-15.htm">Jeremiah 5:15</a>; yet as the Chaldee and Hebrew languages were only dialects of one and the same language, common to the eastern nations, the Chaldee language, though on account of termination of words, pronunciation, and other things, might be difficult, and hard to be understood by the Jews, yet must be much more easy to understand than the Roman language, so widely different from theirs. <p>(s) "----In ultimos orbis Britannos", Horat. Carmin. l. 1. Ode 35. (t) De Termino Vitae, l. 3. sect. 3. p. 129. (u) T. Hieros. Succah, fol. 55. 2.((w) Vid. Homer. Iliad. 21. l. 252. (x) Vid. Plin. Nat. Hist. l. 10. c. 4. <a name="gsb" id="gsb"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/gsb/deuteronomy/28.htm">Geneva Study Bible</a></div><span class="cverse2">The LORD shall bring a nation against thee from far, from the end of the earth, as swift as the eagle flieth; a nation whose tongue thou shalt not understand;</span></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><div class="comtype">EXEGETICAL (ORIGINAL LANGUAGES)</div><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/cambridge/deuteronomy/28.htm">Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges</a></div><span class="bld">49</span>. <span class="ital">from far</span>, etc.] <a href="/isaiah/5-26.htm" title="And he will lift up an ensign to the nations from far, and will hiss to them from the end of the earth: and, behold, they shall come with speed swiftly:">Isaiah 5:26</a> of Assyrians, <a href="/jeremiah/5-15.htm" title="See, I will bring a nation on you from far, O house of Israel, said the LORD: it is a mighty nation, it is an ancient nation, a nation whose language you know not, neither understand what they say.">Jeremiah 5:15</a> of Babylonians (though perhaps originally of Scythians).<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="ital">as the</span> <span class="bld">vulture swoopeth</span>] See on <a href="/deuteronomy/14-12.htm" title="But these are they of which you shall not eat: the eagle, and the ossifrage, and the ospray,">Deuteronomy 14:12</a> f.; cp. <a href="/hosea/8-1.htm" title="Set the trumpet to your mouth. He shall come as an eagle against the house of the LORD, because they have transgressed my covenant, and trespassed against my law.">Hosea 8:1</a> of Assyrians; <a href="/habakkuk/1-8.htm" title="Their horses also are swifter than the leopards, and are more fierce than the evening wolves: and their horsemen shall spread themselves, and their horsemen shall come from far; they shall fly as the eagle that hastens to eat.">Habakkuk 1:8</a>, <a href="/jeremiah/48-40.htm" title="For thus said the LORD; Behold, he shall fly as an eagle, and shall spread his wings over Moab.">Jeremiah 48:40</a>; <a href="/jeremiah/49-22.htm" title="Behold, he shall come up and fly as the eagle, and spread his wings over Bozrah: and at that day shall the heart of the mighty men of Edom be as the heart of a woman in her pangs.">Jeremiah 49:22</a> of Babylonians.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="ital">whose tongue thou shalt not understand</span>] Lit. <span class="ital">hear</span>; <a href="/jeremiah/5-15.htm" title="See, I will bring a nation on you from far, O house of Israel, said the LORD: it is a mighty nation, it is an ancient nation, a nation whose language you know not, neither understand what they say.">Jeremiah 5:15</a> of Babylonians, cp. <a href="/isaiah/28-11.htm" title="For with stammering lips and another tongue will he speak to this people.">Isaiah 28:11</a> of Assyrians (and <a href="/deuteronomy/33-9.htm" title="Who said to his father and to his mother, I have not seen him; neither did he acknowledge his brothers, nor knew his own children: for they have observed your word, and kept your covenant.">Deuteronomy 33:9</a>).<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="pul" id="pul"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/deuteronomy/28.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verses 49, 50.</span> - The description here given of the enemy to whom Israel was to be subjected, applies more or less closely to all the nations whom God raised up from time to time, to invade Israel and chastise the people for their rebellion - the Chaldeans (cf. <a href="/jeremiah/48-40.htm">Jeremiah 48:40</a>; <a href="/jeremiah/49-22.htm">Jeremiah 49:22</a>; <a href="/ezekiel/17-5.htm">Ezekiel 17:5-7</a>; <a href="/habakkuk/1-6.htm">Habakkuk 1:6</a>, etc.), the Assyrians (cf. <a href="/isaiah/5-26.htm">Isaiah 5:26</a>; <a href="/isaiah/38-11.htm">Isaiah 38:11</a>; 23:19), the Medes (<a href="/isaiah/13-17.htm">Isaiah 13:17, 18</a>); but there are features in the description which apply especially to the Romans; and the horrors delineated in the latter part of the section (vers. 52-57) carry one's thoughts immediately to the terrible scenes which transpired during the wars of Vespasian and Titus with the Jews as narrated by Josephus ('De Bell. Jud.,' 6; see Milman, ' Hist. of the Jews,' bk. 16.). <span class="cmt_sub_title">Verse 49.</span> - <span class="cmt_word">As the eagle flieth.</span> The eagle was the common ensign of the legion in the Roman army; and by the Latin writers <span class="accented">aquila</span> (eagle) is sometimes used for a legion (Caes., 'Hisp.,' 30; cf. <a href="/matthew/24-28.htm">Matthew 24:28</a>). Deuteronomy 28:49<a name="kad" id="kad"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/kad/deuteronomy/28.htm">Keil and Delitzsch Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament</a></div>The Lord would bring against it from afar a barbarous, hardhearted nation, which knew not pity. "From afar" is still further strengthened by the addition of the words, "from the end of the earth." The greater the distance off, the more terrible does the foe appear. He flies thence like an eagle, which plunges with violence upon its prey, and carries it off with its claws; and Israel does not understand its language, so as to be able to soften its barbarity, or come to any terms. A people "firm, hard of face," i.e., upon whom nothing makes an impression (vid., <a href="/isaiah/50-7.htm">Isaiah 50:7</a>), - a description of the audacity and shamelessness of its appearance (<a href="/daniel/8-23.htm">Daniel 8:23</a>; cf. <a href="/proverbs/7-13.htm">Proverbs 7:13</a>; <a href="/proverbs/21-29.htm">Proverbs 21:29</a>), which spares neither old men nor boys. This description no doubt applies to the Chaldeans, who are described as flying eagles in <a href="/habakkuk/1-6.htm">Habakkuk 1:6</a>., <a href="/jeremiah/48-40.htm">Jeremiah 48:40</a>; <a href="/jeremiah/49-22.htm">Jeremiah 49:22</a>; <a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/17-3.htm">Ezekiel 17:3</a>, <a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/17-7.htm">Ezekiel 17:7</a>, as in the verses before us; but it applies to other enemies of Israel beside these, namely to the great imperial powers generally, the Assyrians, Chaldeans, and Romans, whom the Lord raised up as the executors of His curse upon His rebellious people. 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