Commentaries:
Adam Clarke
A nation - from far - Probably the Romans.
As the eagle flieth - The very animal on all the Roman standards. The Roman eagle is proverbial.
Whose tongue thou shalt not understand - The Latin language, than which none was more foreign to the structure and idiom of the Hebrew.
Other Adam Clarke entries containing Deuteronomy 28:49:
Joshua 8:33
Habakkuk 1:8
Matthew 12:42
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