Matthew Poole and continuators on Jeremiah 47:2

2 Thus saith the LORD, Behold, waters rise up out of the north , and shall be an overflowing flood, and shall overflow the land and all that is therein, the city, and them that dwell therein , then the men shall cry, and all the inhabitants of the land shall howl .

Calamites and afflictions are often in Scripture set out under the notion of Waters, and as the miseries of Egypt were set out by the overflowings of their great River ilus. So the calamities of the Phili[illegible: 2 letters]ines are expressed by the overflowings of the great River Euphrates, these miseries coming upon them by the Caldeans, which were a Northern people, their water[illegible: 1 letter] are said to rise up out of the North.

It is said to be an overflowing flood that should over flow the Land, because it was to be a sweeping judgment, which like a flood should carry all before it▪

which should produce amongst the inhabitants of Gaza a great howling, and lamentation.

Marginal references: Isa. 8.7.; chap. 1.14.; Heb. the fulness thereof.