John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 28:49
The Lord shall bring a nation against thee from far, from the end of the earth ,.... Now though Babylon is represented as a country distant from Judea, and said to be a nation "from far", Jeremiah 5:15 ; yet not "from the end of the earth"; as here; and though the Roman nation, strictly speaking, was not at so great a distance from Jerusalem, yet the Roman emperors, and great part of their armies brought against it, were fetched from our island of Great Britain, which in former times was... read more
Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Deuteronomy 28:45-68
One would have thought that enough had been said to possess them with a dread of that wrath of God which is revealed from heaven against the ungodliness and unrighteousness of men. But to show how deep the treasures of that wrath are, and that still there is more and worse behind, Moses, when one would have thought that he had concluded this dismal subject, begins again, and adds to this roll of curses many similar words: as Jeremiah did to his, Jer. 36:32. It should seem that in the former... read more