Matthew Poole and continuators on Isaiah 13:3

3 I have commanded my sanctified ones , I have also called my mighty ones for mine anger, even them that rejoyce in my highness .

The Medes and Persians, fitly so called, because they were solemnly designed and set apart by God for his own Service, and for this holy Work of executing his just Vengeance upon them.

Those whom I have made Mighty for this Work.

Or, as others render it, in my glory, materially considered, to wit, in the doing of that Work which tends much to the Advancement of my Glory, in destroying of the Babylonian Empire. For otherwise the Medes had no regard to God nor to his Glory, but onely to their own carnal Ends.

Marginal references: Or, prepared ones. Jer. 6. 4.