Thus saith the Lord, behold, waters rise up out of the north,
&c.] Meaning an army of men, which should come in great numbers, and with great force and rapidity, like an overflowing flood. So the Targum,
``behold, people shall come from the north;''that is, from Chaldea, which lay north of Palestine: and shall be an overflowing flood, and shall overflow the land, and all