Isaiah 13:5

From the end of heaven; from the ends of the earth under heaven, as Matthew 24:30; which is not to be understood strictly and properly, but popularly and hyperbolically, as such expressions are commonly used in sacred and profane authors. And yet in some respects this might be truly said of Persia, which on the south side was bounded by the main ocean; as for the same reason Sheba, a part of Arabia, is called the utmost parts of the earth, Matthew 12:42. The weapons of his indignation; the Medes and Persians, who were but a rod in God's hand, and the instruments of his anger, as was said of the Assyrian, Isaiah 10:5. To destroy the whole land, to wit, of Babylon, of which he is now speaking.