Deuteronomy 28:59

Ver. 59. The Lord will make thy plagues wonderful—great plagues, and of long continuance— Have not their plagues continued now these seventeen hundred years? Their former captivities were very short in comparison. Ezekiel and Daniel prophesied in the land of the Chaldeans: but now they have no true prophet to foretel an end of their calamities; they have only false Messiahs to delude them, and to aggravate their misfortunes. In their former captivities, they had the comfort of being conveyed to the same place; they dwelt together in the land of Goshen; they were carried together into Babylon: but now they are dispersed all over the face of the earth. What nation hath suffered so much, and yet endured so long? What nation hath subsisted as a distinct people in their own country, so long as these have done in their dispersion into all countries? And what a standing miracle is hereby exhibited to the view and observation of the whole world! Bishop Newton.