THE HOLY BIBLE Douay-Rheims

Notes on Prophecy of Jeremias (Author Bishop Richard Challoner (ed.))

25:38 The dove: This is commonly understood of Nabuchodonosor, whose military standard, it is said, was a dove. But the Hebrew word Jonah, which is here rendered a dove, may also signify a waster or oppressor, which name better agrees to that unmerciful prince; or by comparison, as a dove's flight is the swiftest, so would their destruction come upon them.

Original Douay-Rheims from Project Gutenberg - Massive cleanup of OCR problems and editing done locally.