1. Nih'y'thah (left, quitted); compare chapter 8: 27. His sleep failed him.
4. The language of the Chaldeans was different from the language of the king. The Chaldean seems the sacred language.
5. "The word is gone forth from me."
38. I am disposed to think this passage excludes the sea, as carrying under it the subjection merely of the organized earth to Nebuchadnezzar, the golden head of the image of alienated empire of the world.