What answer will be given to the envoys of that nation? “The LORD has founded Zion, where His afflicted people will find refuge.”
32. And what shall be answered to the messengers of the nation? I choose to interpret this of any nations whatever, and not of a single nation; for strangers, as soon as they enter into any city, are wont to ask what is done, that they may hear some news. It is as if he had said, “What shall be answered to strangers when they shall inquire?
The destruction of Babylon and the Chaldean empire was a thing at a great distance; the empire had not risen to any considerable height when its fall was here foretold: it was almost 200 years from this prediction of Babylon's fall to the accomplishment of it.
Commenting on Isaiah 14:24-32
PROPHECY AGAINST PHILISTIA. (Isa 14:28-32) In . . . year . . . Ahaz died--726 B.C. Probably it was in this year that the Philistines threw off the yoke put on them by Uzziah.
Commenting on Isaiah 14:28-32