The Lord hath done [that] which he had devised
It was not so much the Chaldeans that did it, though they
ascribed it to themselves; but it was the Lord's doing, and what
he had deliberately thought of, purposed and designed within
himself; all whose purposes and devices certainly come to pass:
he hath fulfilled his word that he had commanded in the
days of old;
not only by the mouth of Jeremiah, years ago, or in the times of
Isaiah, long before him; but even in the days of Moses; see (
Leviticus 26:17 ) ,
&c. ( Deuteronomy
28:20 ) So the Targum,
``which he commanded to Moses the prophet from ancient days, that if the children of Israel would not keep the commands of the Lord, he would take vengeance on them:''he hath thrown down, and hath not pitied;