Matthew Poole and continuators on Isaiah 20:6

6 And the inhabitants of this isle shall say in that day, Behold, such is our expectation whither we flee for help , to be delivered from the king of Assyria: and how shall we escape ?

Of this Land, in which the Prophet was, and to whose Inhabitants these Words were uttered. For the Title of Isles or Islands in Scripture is frequently given not onely to Lands encompased with the Sea, but also to such Countries, as lay upon the Sea-Coasts, as Psal. 72. 10. Ezek. 26. 15, 18. as Palestina or Canaan did, yea to such Countries as are remote or separated from that place in or of which the Words are spoken, as Esth. 10. 1. Isa. 24. 15. & 42. 4, 10, &c. as Canaan was from Egypt, or at least from Ethiopia. Add to this, that Canaan had some resemblance with an Isle, either because it was almost incompassed with the Midland Sea on one side, and with the Dead Sea, and the Sea of Galilee or Tiberias and Iordan on the other side; or because, as Isles are separated from other Lands by the Sea, so this Land and People were separated from all the rest of the World by God's special Providence, and Presence, and Worship.

So vain is our hope placed upon such a People as are unable to deliver themselves, and much more to deliver us.

To whom we now and usualy trust, for this was the common dissease of the People of Israel, although Hezekiah was in a good measure free from it, as we read 2 Kings 18. 5.

Either by their help, who cannot defend our selves; or, by our own strength; seeing they who were much more potent than we are, could not escape.

Marginal references: Or, countrey.