1 a The Medes and Persians, that shal destroye them as the winde doeth the chaffe.
5 b Thogh they were forsaken for a time, yet they were not vtterly cast of as thogh their housband were dead.
6 c He sheweth that there remaineth nothing for them that abide in Babylon, but destruction, {Chap. 17, 6} & {48, 6}.
7 e For the great afflictions that thei haue felt by the Babylonians.
10 / Or, fil, or multiple.
13 / Or, measure.
19 m That is, the true God of Israel is not like to these idoles: for he can helpe when all things are desperate.
20 n He meaneth the Medes and Persians, as he did before call the Babylonians his hammer, {Chap. 50, 23}.
25 o Not that Babyon stode on a mountaine, but because it was strong and semed inuincible.
27 q By these thre nations he meaneth Armenia the hier, and Armenia the lower, and Sythia: for Cyrus had gathered an armie of diuers nacions.
31 r By turning the course of the riuer one side was made open, and the redes that did growe in the water, were destroied which Cyrus did by the counsel of Gobria & Gabatha Belshazzars captaines.
34 t This is spoken in the persone of the Jewes, bewayling their state and the crueltie of the Babylonians.
38 x When thei are inflamed with surfeting and drinking, I wil feast with them alluding to Belshazzars banket, {Dan. 5, 2}.
41 y Meaning Babel, as {Chap. 25, 26}.
44 a That is, his giftes & presents which he had receiued as part of the spoile of other nacions, and which the idolaters broght vnto him from all countreys.
46 b Meaning, that Babylon shuld not be destroied all at once, but by litle & litle shulde be broght to nothing: for the first yere came the tydings, the next yere the siege, and in the thirde yere it was taken: yet this is not that horrible destruction which the Prophetes threatned in manie palces: for that was after this when they rebelled and Darius ouercame them by the policie of Zopirus and hanged thre thousand gentlemen besides the commune people.
48 c All creatures in heauen & earth shal rejoice and praise God for the destruction of Babylon the great enemie of his Churche.
59 k This was not in the time of his captiuitie, but seuen yeres, before, when he went ether to gratulat Nebuchad-nezzar or to intreat of some matters.