Matthew Poole and continuators on Isaiah 34:1

1. COme near, ye nations, to hear, and hearken, ye people : let the earth hear, and all that is therein, the world, and all things that come forth of it .

Let the People of all Nations take notice of what I am about to say and do, as that wherein they are generally concerned, and by the consideration whereof, they may, if they will, be instructed, and so delivered from the Calamity here denounced.

Heb. All the off-springs of it: Either 1. all the Trees and Fruits, and other productions of it: For it is usual with the Prophets, by a Figure, to turn his Speech to these senseless Creatures. Or 2. all the Inhabitants of the World, as the Chaldee and other Ancients restrain and understand this general Expression; which also is Emphatical, and admonisheth the proud and insolent Sons of Men, of their mean and obscure Original, that how great and glorious soever they may seem to themselves or others; yet in truth, they are but a better sort of Mushromes springing out of the Earth, for Dust they are, and unto dust they must return, as was said, Gen. 3. 19.

Marginal references: Heb the fulness thereof.