1)

What are the implications of "Ka'asher Yid'eh ha'Nasher"?

1.

Rashi ans Targum Onkelos: It implies that they (the Romans) will come suddenly - their horses 1 will carry them swiftly like an eagle swoops. 2

2.

Rashi (in Tehilim, 18:11) and Targum Yonasan: It means 'like an eagle flies'.

1

Or ships, as the Gemara relates in Sukah, 51b - See Ba'al ha'Turim..

2

See also Ba'al ha'Turim.

2)

What is the meaning of "Goy asher Lo Sishma Leshono"?

1.

Rashi: It means "A nation whose language you do not understand" 1 (where the agony of Galus is more acute).

1

Rashi: As in Bereishis 42:23.

3)

Which era is this Pasuk referring to?

1.

Ramban (in Pasuk 42): It is referring to the final assault of Vespasian and his son Titus, who came with a huge army and laid siege to Yerushalayim, and to the suffering that the Jews underwent at their hands. 1

1

See Ramban, DH 'Ve'amar'.

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