Out of the north - Media lay to the northwest of Babylon. This constant use of the north, the quarter where the sun never shines, a…

Out of the north there comes up a nation. —It is significant that the very phrase which had described the danger that thr…

Let what I have said before be kept in mind: the Prophet uses many words in describing the ruin of Babylon. For it was not enough to predict what w…

For out of the north there comes up a nation against her
The Medes and Persians, which under Cyrus were one nation; …

The king of Babylon was kind to Jeremiah, yet the prophet must foretell the ruin of that kingdom. If our friends are God's enemies, we dare not spe…