Matthew Poole and continuators on Isaiah 29:5

5. Moreover, the multitude of thy strangers shall be like small dust , and the multitude of the terrible ones shall be as chaff that passeth away: yea it shall be at an instant suddenly.

Either 1. of the Strangers that Encamp and Fight against thee. Or, 2. of the Egyptians, and other Strangers, whom thou hast hired to assist thee, as indeed they did, when the Chaldeans came against them. This Exposition seems to agree best, as with the phrase, thy strangers, so with the scope of the place, and with the whole Context, especially the foregoing Verses; which plainly shews, that this is not a Promise to Ierusalem, but a Threatning against it.

Quickly blown away with the least Wind, by comparing this with the following Clause.

This dissipation and destruction of thy Strangers, and terrible Ones shall come to pass.

b Of thy great Commanders, and stoutest Souldiers.

Marginal references: Job. 21. 18. Chap. 17. 13.; Chap. 30. 13.