Matthew Poole and continuators on Deuteronomy 28:33

33 The fruit of thy land and all thy labours, shall a nation which thou knowest not , eat up: and thou shalt be onely oppressed and crushed alway .

Which shall come from a far country, which thou didst not at all expect or fear, and therefore will be the more dreadful when they come, a nation whose language thou understandest not, and therefore canst not plead with them for mercy, nor expect any savour from them.

Not sometimes conquered, and sometimes conquering, as the course of war commonly is, but in all times and in all thy actions and attempts foiled and worsted.