Ezekiel 38:16
cloud <06051> [as a cloud.]
latter <0319> [it shall be.]
Though it is not generally agreed what people or transactions are here predicted, yet it seems evident that the prophecy is not yet accomplished. Nothing occurred in the wars of Cambyses, or Antiochus Epiphanes with the Jews, that answers to it; and the expression here used, in the latter days, plainly implies that there should be a succession of many ages between the publication of the prediction and its accomplishment. It is therefore supposed, with much probability, that its fulfilment will be posterior to the conversion of the Jews and their restoration to their own land; and that the Turks, Tarters, or Scythians, from the northern parts of Asia, perhaps uniting with the inhabitants of some more southern regions, will make war upon the Jews and be cut off in a manner predicted here.
nations <01471> [that the.]
Jeremiah 4:13
approaching <05927> [Behold.]
chariots <04818> [his chariots.]
horses <05483> [his horses.]
doomed <0188> [Woe.]
Joel 2:2
day .... darkness ... day <03117 02822> [A day of darkness.]
"The quantity of these insects," says a French author,"is incredible to all who have not themselves witnessed their astonishing numbers; the whole earth is covered with them for the space of several leagues. The noise they make in browsing on the trees and herbage may be heard at a great distance, and resembles that of an army in secret. Wherever their myriads spread, the verdure of the country disappears; trees and plants, stripped of their leaves and reduced to their naked boughs and stems, cause the dreary image of winter to succeed in an instant to the rich scenery of spring. When these clouds of locusts take their flight, to surmount any obstacles or to traverse more rapidly a desert soil, the heavens may literally be said to be obscured by them."
blackness <07837> [as.]
huge <07227> [a great.]
been <01961> [there.]
generations ... come <01755> [many generations. Heb. generation and generation.]
