1 b Because thei were of golde and siluer, the Medes & Persians caryed them away.
1 ! The destruction of Babylon and of their idoles.
2 d He derideth the idoles, which had nether soule nor sense.
3 e He sheweth the difference betwene the idoles and the true God: for thei must be caryed of others, but God himself caryeth his, as {Deut. 32,11}
3 ! He calleth the Jewes to the consideracion of his workes.
5 g The people of God, seing their owne calamitie & the florishing estate of the Babylonians, shulde be tempted to thinke that their God was not so mightie as the idoles of their enemies: therefore he describeth the original of all the idoles, to make them to be abhorred of all men: shewing that the moste that can be spoken in their commendacion is but to put prue them vile, {Bar. 6,25}.
11 i That is, Cyrus, which shal come, as swift as a birde and fight against Babylon.